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Tucked away on Erna-Berger-Straße, a dead-end street a stone’s throw from Potsdamer Platz in one of the most touristy corners of Berlin, a former Berlin Wall watchtower stands as a reminder of the city’s divided past. Like the wall, the watchtowers along its length were improved over the 28 years that they were used to […]
Spies Beneath Berlin is a documentary about Operation Gold, a joint undertaking by MI6 and the CIA in the 1950s to build a tunnel from West to East Berlin to intercept Soviet intelligence communications. One of the most valuable and daring operations ever undertaken. – Allen Dulles, Director of the CIA 1953-1961 In 1951 the already […]
The first time I heard about the Cold War listening post on Teufelsberg (German for Devil’s Mountain) was watching the BBC ‘Berlin’ documentary by Matt Frei. Standing in the tower below one of the listening domes, with the canvas sheeting flapping about him in the wind, Frei explained the history of the listening post and the […]
