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| Tango01 | 21 Sep 2019 9:15 p.m. PST |
"Its code name was "Operation Gold," a wildly audacious CIA plan to construct a clandestine tunnel into East Berlin to tap into critical KGB and Soviet military telecommunication lines. The tunnel, crossing the border between the American and Soviet sectors, would have to be 1,500 feet (the length of the Empire State Building) with state-of-the-art equipment, built and operated literally under the feet of their Cold War adversaries. Success would provide the CIA and the British Secret Intelligence Service access to a vast treasure of intelligence. Exposure might spark a dangerous confrontation with the Soviets. Yet as the Allies were burrowing into the German soil, a traitor, code-named Agent Diamond by his Soviet handlers, was burrowing into the operation itself. . ."
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 Legion 4   | 22 Sep 2019 7:05 a.m. PST |
A good movie on this topic is "Bridge of Spies", with Tom Hanks. And AFAIK it's pretty accurate … |
| Tango01 | 22 Sep 2019 3:29 p.m. PST |
Agree!….
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| Virginia Tory | 02 Oct 2019 8:09 a.m. PST |
George Blake. Soviet spy, ratted out Operation Gold from the get go. My Dad was in Berlin then, though working for a different organization than CIA. There's an Anthony Hopkins film that's pretty good that's set during this operation. link |
| Tango01 | 02 Oct 2019 9:28 p.m. PST |
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