ah berlin, the capital of spies, both fictitious and re home, we were told to be careful. look around. if we would ever because we had it all clear from the cold war to day, many spy stories began and ended here. i'm so i one flush my passport down the train toilet spirit, or we never felt like james bond route fell in spy hawks spots past and present. tell only a small part of the truth. the dark heart of the city holds even more of the truth told in countless spy movies. ah,

the western and eastern secret service is waged, that clash of titans in berlin were opposing systems collided, the frontline of the cold war, the main protagonist of the cold war, live door to door in berlin. and, and i'm has fallen up here stolen and thinking i'll get those of you anita. these out when the others have been dam, is the then that's your, the scope and they get certain us on by spies was said to look on every corner in berlin from after world war 2, until the fall of the berlin wall in 1989, berlin at the center of the secret services, but why? in 1945 wolf more to was over and the city lay in ruins. gem had lost the war. it

had started the allies, britain, france, and the u. s. along with russia, had freed the city from nazi rural. ah, the potsdam agreement divided berlin into 4 sectors, one each for the victors. but hostilities soon followed. the cold war had begun. east berlin was under soviet rule, while the allies governed the remaining 3 sectors. in 1949 to germany were formed the federal republic, which would join nato in 1955 and the democratic republic, which would join the warsaw pact the same. dia ah, ban francesca has been researching berlin and its spies for decades. and his co author of the book, capital of spies. the break comes around to 1947 when it was

obvious that the nations are going in different directions of berlin, west germany, germany was the beginning of the cold war. and that's a point also where intelligence collection started to get more intense. west berlin was now an island surrounded by socialist east germany. eastern and western pals clashed the borders, but the representatives were allowed to move freely between sectors, perfect for spies. berlin was the only city where this situation could be seen. and obviously of this geo political situation offered a lot of possibilities for all, for intelligence services. and therefore, i would say berlin is of the catalog, the cold war a journey through secret, berlin in search of spies, the dark side of a global city. we meet former spies with incredible stories. we were told to

be careful look around, but there was no special training well to recognize that you observed ah, i thought him in tea at the door to spite do a fair lean mixed i pneumonia and poor in 1961, the cold war hates up dramatically east germany builds a wall between east and west berlin as light indians, as if the dimension he's got biden's. i've noticed i found a tubing gun and leslie buck, boston one behind, hooked berlin, was split into an east germany ordered gods to shoot any one trying to flee. frederick strauser was one of the few border crossings. it's where american spy couple, jeffrey and beatrice shabbots crossed between western east berlin to meet with members of the ministry of state security east, germany's intelligence service,

as well as the stodgy, the country secret police. for years they were the country's top spies. they high profile target was the chancellor of the federal republic of germany, the department one day. they were specialized in giving information from the chancellor's office. hibler in this conference. we were shocked. we were trained as spawns. and so we had, we knew we had a lot of work ahead. they were to spy on the highest political figure in the country, making them some of the most dangerous agents of the post war period. the former frederick stross, a checkpoint between east and west. berlin was a place of surveillance and espionage. the stars monitored who left the country and who met with whom their eyes and ears were almost everywhere.

aah! set at the station. this scene from a spy film feels more american than german. ah, gabanos good extras. his station was a hot spot for berlin spy network, and there were spy gateways in both directions. warner in by that is to the stars he was formed in 1950 and conducted foreign espionage, while monitoring east germans as well it kidnapped dissidence and operated its own prisons. a line, in essence, by nearly 3000 people were hired for the m. s. s. and the 1st 2 years alone,

if i understood understood. and that grew steadily until 1989, the wonder boys, the stars, his brutality remains a source of cinematic inspiration to this day. lacking clio, a comedic series that borders on slapstick. i sent my little list of over to slammed with the lines in the stars. he will had quoted it, no man and straw set in east berlin. a museum opened to everyone, now stands with secret. darcia was once collected, thousands of files was stored here, including the reports, the shabbots, as delivered from the chancellor's office, as well as other information from their various sources. ah ah,

my job was to take these reports which were evaluations and all the shades of grey within a 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 clo and pulled down the ceiling and put the box in there. and then i went home. the ship it says were never exposed during their active covert years, but other agents were over and over again on both sides. ah, the glean could bridge separates west berlin and potsdam. then a part of east germany. the bridge became the symbol of agent exchanges. a night time winter scene in steven spielberg's film shows the cold and ruthlessness of a tough business. open the gate. ah rudolph,

is there not the possibility that my people are going to shoot me? if you're not word, would it help you do you live up lucas? like the kleenex bridge is probably the most exaggerated spy location in berlin, in this good pacific of the unique book. and with that i, my spies were only exchanged there 3 times in 1962, 85 and 86, adding up. but it was del, important in the context of berlin, bruno, because it was used by vehicles for allied military admissions, between west berlin and potsdam, many a lip need him. his urine finish off again. a couple of shot. oh, the tails were once agents for the soviet k g b who also lived in berlin and his court yacht. they were trained in the city. they waited in vain for 10 years to be assigned to sleep agents in the u. s.

ah, to unions are you my interested? generally, spying is not generally recognized as an occupation of me can't just apply them. these are the adventure. the excitement arose from travelling through 5 countries and 14 days under 3 or 4 different names. hutton toyota, josefina lum, fighting 15 years with the k g b. i never once how the gun in my hand and i use my younger buffet in a hand and i'm to i once flushed my passport down the train toilet, then grabbed a new one spirit about the noise. on them was it? then i had to check into a hotel and completely forgot my new name lesson. a vision nom, it didn't yet i get ha. on a hill on the western outskirts of berlin is the appropriately titled, teufel speck, or devil's mountain. the americans,

most important listening station was here alone in the forest, on the hill side with berlin visible in the distance. the site is open to visitors . it's aging poorly. it is still well secured. with what gillis quoted, one piece via they could intercept radio signals here from far into poland technology including then that's why the stars the end, the k g b took it very seriously, asking them what they were repeatedly able to install their own spies. their thought i'm, if you want to implement sylium, you heads up to 1200 people. they're in a free shift, 8 hour system. and those people were listening to the conversations and of washer. and they just listen to it. and this is a boring drop, so that is not the alive for you would expect as the being is by boring in

film, the teufel, bogus style to the nerve center of a highly charged city. a cia we need healing berlin. no one can know why you're there. does this hear from everybody knew this place was crawling with spies from all over the world. just those who see a year, but regular citizens didn't notice anything in their everyday lives. wickham damarian felt a transit camp in west berlin its way east gibbon refuge. cheese were 1st registered and housed, but not always innocently west and secret services. like the c i a, in the british m. i 6 wacked the marine felt a to allah, the, the elbow girl, all east german citizens who came to west berlin, had to 1st register and marian felder in the mood and being questioned by the intelligence services for the 3 allied powers,

was part of the admission process before thought the aim was to persuade people that after now they decide to leaf east germany. they might, could work for west germany of the shepherds as lived and spied in west berlin, but travelled regularly to this starcy collective and east berlin. a covert apartment was used to rely instructions and give them a place to have lunch and chat harmless. we're not for the other high profile spies there. we met for 13 years, always in that apartment. we were to friends that we worked well together. we became a team and developing our legend. so if we would ever be caught, we had it all clear. they gave me virtually friar hon to decide 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 a government has a policy, there always differences of opinion. and that was important to know. while the shabbots, his were active agents, the tales had to wait in the us, they were to live under false identities, unnoticed. unseen only of carver woods in that it was our job was to establish ourselves as us citizens in case war broke out between the soviet union and the u. s. written and the embassies closed to go to wouldn't the board trust me? you're close. unbidden food. we would have been supported, the soviet agent network in the us are good and it says over at noon, but after it's hard to tie and it was really lonely. hannah, we could only rely on each other once. and the separation from our family was of

course, extremely difficult, and would up on so on a tuesday we left moscow not knowing for how long we have one laws, muskogee wilson, he could, if he yaga a secret tip at the westernmost point of berlin on the former east german border time seems to have stood still at gato airport once used by the nazis allied victor, britain took it over after world war 2. it's now a military aviation museum oil. our forced by he of hundreds of the royal air force was stationed here. from 945 until the early ninety's was actually after the war, every occupying force had their own airfield. that's the icon. not the americans had temple off guard or the british had gotten the funds will. and the french later

got tackle homan on the button and the british primarily did military recognizance dealership which is commonly known as espionage shot or batman landlord frequent in cliff bonaza kent. mm hm. f, who club the fancy steel at the air field was directly on the border between west berlin in east germany. the blit not only did the british spy on east germany, but on an hour the airfield was also monitored by east german border troops. and as darcy as well, the ad on t i o t start seizure height, cattle, almost a cinematic journey back in time. as if the end of casablanca had been filmed here, it wasn't, that the images are deceptively similar. ah ah

hang a ford gospel air field is particularly intriguing. it's the only hang at that remains closed to the public. mm hm. and these are cancer hung over the entire hanger, was equipped with sound booth booth was and with state of the art listening equipment of copy my i with pouch oxygen in the americans and the british always shared hannah, my blitzer from it all by there were always british air force personnel in the toilet bag surveillance station and american personnel were also hearing that total us and british spies were especially active the wither spies. there are also defectors and double agents working both sides. george blake was one of the best known british double agents. he's the key to the story of the mysterious tunnel. the allied museum is in the southern berlin district of darlin,

near the former american military headquarters, spy threads converge, tea with the c i, analyzing sources. and the british planning a surveillance tunnel ah, front will not meet the embassy. and then the toner kind of under pressure position has been nothing the and gets up in canada that was thrown into you. and one day i wasn't feeling good, but a coupon that went to elders and then carla, who brought up in yet. i'm glad billy leaves not yawning. mess up on the on pipe bianca up to that building. i'm v blake. so the toner in, i know i'm in a gone is my das, nazi on. and the allied museum now exhibits original parts from the famous tunnel 6 meter 3 just by a tunnel. it was built in the early fifties and then was in service for 7 months.

to tape the telephone conversation on the east german side, the telephone conversation, the soviets started, motor administration was doing the tunnel was problematic from the start. the k g b knew that the americans and the british were listening to theirs. and this is because a british, a double agent, george blake told the k g beat that the americans of british a building this tunnel the can be had a problem that because if the tunnel would have been found very, very early in time, americans and british by of is the aware that as a mole this idea sufficiently found the tunnels 6 months later ending operation gold. as it was not pictures of the spy tunnel went around the world. and double agent, george blake would like to flee via east berlin to moscow, where he died in 2020. why do people like

play called the shabbots as becomes spies? power, money, ideals, aisd, germany as an attempt at a better society. this experiment in the east was a worthy experiment after the whole of cost, but no one talks about a were 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 be really high checkpoint charlie in central berlin. the legendary crossing between west and east draws tourists now but was then closely guarded by both sides. ah,

mon volta, 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 or when they came out, we have been out, i'm fit, and one of the halls caught in the midst of the arms race. a famous agent crossed the checkpoint. his political mission was just as important as the sense of entering absolutely hostile territory. the solitude of the agent. ah, well my double 070 for thank. so that's a great company. checkpoint charlie is one of berlin's best known landmarks he a to well, history was written on november the 9th. when the berlin wall fell and the cold war

either seemed to end the iron curtain crumbled, reuniting the city. but not all were pleased. many spies lost their jobs, the political back rooms. the reason for being ah, the tales were in the us when they learned the bull had fallen. the k g b agents decided to return. i said in moscow, gone on the shore when we were back in moscow, they tried to persuade us to continue. and as our kids, it lets you out the saw it and they said the situation had changed so much joy smith knew that if we were in berlin, they couldn't help us any more this year. on the 1st old player, we were afraid at 1st because the c i n f b i were kidnapping people off the street. he amberlynn in the early ninety's nath hutner, the door goes up and, and we thought at something like that happened. nobody would help us. and that was

it. well, this was and were the other spies also afraid after the fall of the wall where 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 arrested and our son was with jeff. they put me in the current court and our neighbor came over to be a witness. well, the house was searched in the end ancient shabbots was acquitted. the couple entered this spying koreas without a criminal record. nobody was killed, we were killed either. and so we went on with our lives with the spy museum, opened in central berlin in 2015, nearly 20 years later. it's now

a must for spy fans and recounts berlin story as an espionage hot spot with exhibitions on surveillance and wiretapping techniques. people, scandals, historical tiles and reports on current cove cases. mm. the cold war is over, but agents continue to operate. is berlin again between the fronts of the new cold war 1st example, an execution slim chance chang. gosh, really, a george and shot dead in the t a garden park. 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 blackly back to moscow. a spy? 3rd example. in 2013 rumors raged that the american embassy in berlin was wanna

tapping top. jim and politicians, including the chancellor politicians were furious. the tip of the iceberg. ah, ben, berlin is the european spy capital said the 2012, the 2018 president of the federal office for the protection of the constitution. i'm to super fossil in 2019, the german federal intelligence service responsible for foreign intelligence gathering. moved into a 260000 square mason building in berlin, a massive building for 4000 staff. what do they all do? berlin still seems to be a popular choice for intelligence agencies. we know only that there is a doc c question, sometimes deadly side to this city. ah

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