so i asked a little surprised hi irish and i am ready to dive into the hands of human to you. have you have a one does not delete it from port yet. please go to the spot and unexpected side to side. the building, the capital looks fine, but fictitious. and really, we were told to be careful. look around, if we, whatever, because we had it all from the cold war to today. many spice stories began and ended here. i'm so i once flushed my passport down the train toilet. so we never felt like james bond root feelings, spine hot spots past and present till only a small part of the truth. the college of the city holds even more of the truth

told in countless spine movies the . the wisdom and eastern secret service is waged. a clash of titans info named were opposing systems collided. the front line of the cold for the may for tegan is the cold war, live door to door, invalid fine. and i'm just following up here, i started an intake. and so get this. if you need these out, when the elders are being used, these ends up soon. this ties into the get us funded by spies was set to look on every corner in berlin from off to world war 2 until the full of the building will in 9099. the lin at the center of the secret services. why

the in 1945 world war 2 was over and the city lay in ruins. germany had lost the will, is it stops at the allies, britain, france. and the us along with russia, had freed the city from nazi room. the, the pottstown agreement divided, building into full sectors, one each for the victors. but hostilities soon followed. the coal, who had been gone east spelling was on the soviet rule while the allies government, the remaining 3 sectors. in 1949 to germany's were for the federal republic, which would join nato in 1955 and the democratic republic, which would join the warsaw pact the same here. the bench on costco has been researching

berlin and spies for decades. and his co authors, the book capital of spies. and the break comes around to 1947 when it was obvious that the nation so that going in different directions for berlin, wisdom east germany, was the beginning of the code forward. and that's a point also where the intelligence collection started to get more intense waste. the land was now in ireland, surrounded by socialist east, germany, eastern and wisdom. pals crushed the borders that they represent. tips were allowed to move freely between sectors, perfect for spies. berlin was the only city where this situation could be seen. and obviously this geo political situation offered a lot of possibilities for all 4 entities and services. and therefore, the,

i would say berlin is the capital of the code for the journey through secret island in search of spies, the dock side of the global city. we meet for them, a spies with incredible stories. we were told to be careful look around. but there was no special training how to recognize that you were to the tongue food came in to you at the thought you spoke to a fairly fixed i know more important in 1961, the cold war heats up dramatically east. germany built a wall between east and west berlin. as light is eastern dimension piece of golf biden's item, the last i found it to be less the best possible one behind berlin was split into an east germany or guns to shoot any one trying to flee friedrich strauss. so was

one of the few border crossings. it's where american spine couple, jeffrey and beatrice ship. it's crossed between west and east berlin to meet with members of the ministry of state security, extremities, intelligent service, as well as the styles, the country secret police, the years they were the country's top spies. the high profile target was the chancellor of the federal republic of germany, the of the department, one a they were specialized in getting information from the chancellor's office. in this concert. we were shots, we went train the spines and so we had, we knew we had a lot of work in that which is fine on the highest political figure in the country, making them some of the most dangerous agents of the postwar period. the form of

friedrich straus a check point between east and west. berlin was a place of surveillance and the espionage the stalls. a monitor who left the country and who met with their eyes and ears were almost everywhere. the search at the station, the same from a spice till 2 small american benjamin, the critics association was a hot spot for berlin's by network. and there was 5 gateways in both directions. wanna invited this to the the strategy was formed in 1950 and conducted for an espionage wall monitoring east

germans as well. it could not dissidence and operate its own prisons. a line. in essence, by y'all nearly 3000 people were hired for the m. s. s. and the 1st 2 years alone on the stage on business, and that grew steadily until 1989. 1 of the honda buys the sponsors brutality remains a source of cinematic inspiration to this day. like thing flew a comedic series. the boat is on slapstick. loud enough to own the salon sandwiches. the lions den, the stones, he will head close to didn't know monstrosity in east berlin. the museum opened to everyone now stands with secret down. so it was once coming to thousands of files

restored here, including the reports to ship. it says delivered from the chancellor's office as well as other information from the various sources. the my job was to take these reports, which were evaluations and all the shades of grey within the government. i was the one who photographed everything. and then i took the night train basel berlin jumped on the train. when in the toilet, i had to stand on the cloak and pulled down the ceiling and put the box in there and then i went home. the ship it says would never expose during their because the years. but all the agents would, over and over again on both sides, the, the kleenex, a bridge separates west berlin and pottstown, then

a part of east germany. the bridge became the symbol of agent exchanges. and not time went to scene, and steven spielberg's film shows the cold and ruthlessness of a tough business. open the gate, the rudolf is there not the possibility that my people are going to shoot me? yeah. you're not worried. would it help the, if you knew the book, it's like the cleaning cut bridge is probably the most exaggerated spite location number landlord and then the skip tubbs safely self the unique up. what can do with the hi, my spies were only exchanged there 3 times. in 1962, 85 and 86. i mean, god forbid, it was still important in the context of berlin because it was used by vehicles for allied military emissions between west berlin and public dominy. i'm the him is

your feeling of taking a couple of steps. the tails were once agents for the soviet k g b, who also looked into the land and this quote yacht, they were trained in the city. my wife has been paying for 10 years to be assigned to sleep agents in the us. the fuel and grants are you mind kitchen is buying is not generally recognized as an occupation of, of, or you can't just apply the, the adventure. the excitement arose from traveling through 5 countries and 14 days at some time under 3 or 4 different names. hutton, but i own a few 15 and i did 15 years with a k g b. i never once held a gun in my hand and i see you smile. you want me to buy for it in a 100 and i'm to i once flushed my passport done the trained toilet, then grabbed a new one experience without the noise. and then then i had to check into

a hotel and completely forgot my new name and vision nom it didn't yet i just have it on a hill. and the wisdom outskirts of building is the appropriately titled, teufel, sped o devil's mountain. the americans, most important listening station was here alone in the forest and the hillside was building visible in the distance the sides open to visiting its aging pooley that is still well secured. the deal is quite a one despite they could intercept radio signals here from far into poland, one and that's why the stars the and the k g b took it very seriously. i'm to know what they were repeatedly able to install their own spies, their thoughts. i can, if you want it from somebody else. so you heads up to 1200. the, and the 3 shift

a power system. and those people were listening to the accommodations and of the washer. and they just listen to it. and this is a boring job, so that is not the life you would expect as a because by boring in film, the 24, the style to submit sent to the behind the charge city. we need you and no one can know why you're there. does this you for and everybody knew this place was crawling with spies from all over the world. just this was the a, you know, but regular citizens didn't notice anything in their everyday lives. become the marine show the transit camp in west berlin, its way east german rescue. cheese profess registered and housed, but not always innocently. wisdom secret services like to see i a,

in the british m, i 6, went to the marie and sold it to load the, the elbow, the all east german citizens who came to west berlin, had to 1st registering marie and failed to pay them. and being questioned by the intelligence services from the 3 allied powers was part of the admission process. the scar aim was to persuade people that often now they decide to nice east germany. they might, could work for west germany. the, the ship it says lived and spied in west berlin, but travelled regularly to the store as a collective in east berlin. because the apartment was used to relate instructions and give them a place to have lunch and chat homeless. we're not for the of the high profile spies that we've met for 13 years. we some that apartment.

we weren't friends, but we worked well together. we became a team and developing our legend. so if we would ever, because we had it all clear, they gave me virtually fry on to this side, what information would be useful. and then i develop projects for my sources and sent them to get that. we got information about discussions within the government and especially differences whenever it covered and has a policy there always differences of opinion. and that was important to know while the ship it says with active agents, the tools had to wait in the us. they were to live under false identities. on notice on the scene we were of cover vitamins in need with our job was to establish ourselves as us citizens, a case of war broke out between the soviet union and the us government. and the

embassies close to go to the board, shaft your flows, and then we would have been supported the soviet agent network in the us again. and then they'll be up in your and i just bought a tie and it was really low and they had moved. we could only rely on each other. and the separation from our family was of course, extremely difficult onto. on a tuesday we left moscow not knowing for how long you for north and must come. you will see if you got a secret chip at the west in most points, has berlin on the former east gym and bowed up time. seems to have stood still got to a post once used by the nazis allied fictive britain to critize off to world war 2 . it's now i'm going to treat aviation museum. the r f was bought here from north to the royal air force was stationed here from 1945

until the early nineties of absence. after the war, every occupying force had their own air field, got the i'm of the economy. the americans had temple hoff. uh, gospel, the british had got to the front and the french later got take a human on the blueprint. and the british primarily did military recognizance english, which is commonly known as espionage shotwell, that's my landlord frequent. i think the clips feel gnostic and the zip codes for the 150, like the air field was directly on the border between west berlin and east germany . the not only did the british spy on east germany, but on that out, the air field was also monitored by east german border troops. and the scholars, the as well the, the aunt of the stats, which are hard got to homeless to send a message. joining back in time, as if the end of casablanca had been feeling too, it wasn't,

that the images are to select, the hang afford guy. so if field is particularly intriguing, it's the only hang it that remains closed, the public, the, these are going to have the entire hanger was equipped with down truth booth with them, with the state of the art listening equipment of customer. i'll post. oh, certainly the americans and the british always shared one of them i put to submit a by they were always british air force personnel and the choices bug surveillance station in the car. and american personnel were also here and got to have told us and purchased spies more, especially active the way their response. they're also defective and double agents working both sides or george blake was one of the best known bush double agents.

he's the key to the story of the mysterious tunnel. the, the allied museum is in the southern billing district of donald need. the former american ministry headquarters spied spence compared to with the c i. analyzing sources and the brush planning a surveillance tunnel. the option to not be found on investment in the toner. com to find out, prep is ition, expands nothing the good top incompetent was thrown into the given one that wasn't feeling good, splitting your from the elders and centralised. you better off you and yet i'm going to the least up to on and miss about on the, on the best outcome up to that building on the play. so the toner in, i mean, they kind of some of our desktop zone in the allied museum. now exhibits original

pumps from the famous tunnel 6 meters just by a tunnel that was built in the early fifties and then was in service for 11 months to tape the telephone conversation. on the east german side, the telephone conversation associates, southern mich administration, was doing the tunnel was problematic from the start pre k, g b, u, that the americans and the british read listening to this. and this is because produced a double agent, george blake told the k g b, the americans and british, i'm building this tunnel the can you be had a problem? because if the tunnel would have been found very, very early in time, americans and british belt as a way of that as low as the science officially found the tunnel, 6 months later,

asia ending operation gold. as it was, 9 pictures of the spine tunnel went around the world. and double agent, george blake would like to flee via east berlin to moscow, where he died in 2020. the. why do people like play cool? the ship? it has become spies, power, money, ideals, east germany as an attempt at a venture society. this experiment in the east was a worthy experiment. after the whole of cost, but no one talks about where the experiment because it didn't work. and so okay, we've accepted that. but we don't forget as jewish people, what happened in this country? here we did see an attempt to keep this more cold and not let it escalate to the feeling check point charlie in central but in

the legendary crossing between west and east charles to us now but was then closely guarded by both sides. the water, they wanted to make sure that no one from an american or other western allied region entered east germany without registering when they went in one of the for when they came out, we have found out right in front of the house called in the midst of the rice, a famous agent crossed the check point. his political mission was just as important as the sense of entering absolutely hostile territory solitude. the agent, the great, the, the,

the checkpoint, charlie is one of the millions best known landmarks. the 2 world history was written on november, the 9th, when the bullying will fail and the cold war ears seem to end beyond cutting, crumbled re uniting the city. but not all were pleased. many spots lost their jobs to political back rooms. they've reason to be the details who are in the us when they learn the rules at full and the k g. b agents decided to return to the most cova and be sure when we were back in moscow, they tried to persuade us to continue then because our ease of drugs who will have disorder. and they said the situation had changed so much, or that if we were in berlin, they couldn't help us anymore. this, you know,

into the system for you. we were afraid at 1st because the c i a and f b. i work, kidnapping people off the street here in berlin, in the early ninety's. now deducting those have been and we thought that something like that happened, nobody would help us. and not was it not as well. and with the other spies, also afraid off to the full of the will when they punished. you know, jeffrey said, i think we have to be prepared and we were prepared. it was okay for 4 years and then they came on the 4th of may. they rang the doorbell, i wasn't even there. and jeffrey was the rest and our son was registered. they put me in the current river course and our neighbor came over to be a witness when the house was search. in the end, agent shifts was acquitted. the couple ended this find korea's without the criminal record. nobody was killed. we weren't killed either. so we went on with our

lives, the, the spine museum opened in central portland in 2015, nearly 20 years later. it's now a most for spies funds and were counseling story as an espionage hotspots, with exhibitions on surveillance and want to typing techniques, people scandals, historical tiles and reports on current cuz it cases the cold pool is also but agents continue to operate is building again between the front of a new cold war 1st example, an execution. send him change and go severely. a judge and shot dead in the t a got in punk, his dead suspected to have been ordered by the russians secret service. second

example. in 2021, a man fell to his death from a russian embassy window in berlin. his body vanished shortly after blacky back to moscow, a spine. 30 example in 2013 room is raged that the man can embassy in berlin was wanna tapping top jim and politicians, including the chancellor politicians were furious. the tip of the iceberg, the best for letting us be europeans by capital, said the 2012, the 2018 president of the federal office for the protection of the constitution. i'm sure in 2019 the gym and federal intelligence service responsible for foreign intelligence gathering, moved into a 260000 square in mesa building in building a must is building for 4000 and stuff. put to the old building still seems to be a popular choice for intelligence agencies. we know only that there is

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