murderous gangs, facilitating the exodus are making a killing hold. but that does not deter the desperate in 45 minutes. on d. w, as you go to use is to thought they will gray able to be able to watch. oh, well, in the capitol spies, but fictitious drill. we were told to be careful look around. if we would ever be caught, we had it all clear from the cold war to today. many spy stories began and ended here. i'm so,

i won't flush my passport down the train toilet experience. we never felt like james bond fell in spite hot 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, encounter spy, movies. ah. the western and eastern secret services waged a clash of titans in burning were opposing systems collided. the frontline of the cold war may protagonists of the cold war, live door to door in berlin. and i'm has fallen up here stolen and thinking

get this if you're new to these out when the others have been dam is these ends up soon. this guy from who gets bitten off on my spies was said to look on every corner in berlin from off to world war 2, until the fall of the berlin wall in 1999, berlin at the center of the secret services. but why in 1945 wolf more to was over and the city lay in ruins. germany had lost the war. it had started the allies, britain, france, and the us 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 were joined the warsaw pact, the same. dea ah ban. francesca has been researching berlin and spies for decades. and his co author of the book, capital of spies at the break comes around to 1947. when it was obvious that of nations are going in different directions for berlin, west germany, east 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 their representatives were allowed to move freely between sectors 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 4 intelligences. and therefore, i would say berlin is of the capital of 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 cloud to recognize situ. observe. a thoughts him in tea at the door to spite of bellini mixed. i am our impor 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 known almost a founded tubing gun and less debach, boston one behind looked. 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 chimneys intelligence service, as well as the stars in 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 with the department one day. they were specialized in getting information from the chancellor's office hibler in this conference. we were shocked. we were the spies. and so we had,

we knew we had a lot of work. the 3rd they were to spy on the highest political figure in the country, making them some of the most dangerous agents of the postwar 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 every way with those set at the station. this scene from a spy film feels more american than german. ah! the bottom of good extra station was a hot spot for berlin spy, networking. 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, august 3rd, on the 5th. and that grew steadily until 1989 of the honda boys. the stars his brutality remains a source of cinematic inspiration to this day liking cleo a comedic series that borders on slapstick against a flood. and what is the welcome ah,

the lines in the stars he were headquartered in gnomon and strauser in east berlin, a museum open to every one. now stands where secret darcia was once collected. thousands of files were stored here, including the reports, the shabbots, as delivered from the chancellor's office, as well as other information from their various sources. 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 than 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 oven again. ah rudolf, is there not the possibility that my people are going to shoot me? if you're not word, would it help you do you need help lucas life. the clinical bridge is probably the most exaggerated spy location in berlin. in the script as it was of the jenica book. and with that, i, my spies were only exchanged there 3 times in 1962,

85 and 86 at uga. but it was del, important in the context of berlin buena, because it was used by vehicles for allied military missions between west berlin and potsdam the olive need him his urine phoenix. after getting a couple of shot. oh, the tails were once agents for the soviet k g b, who also lived in berlin. in this court yacht. they were trained in the city. they waited in vain for 10 years to be assigned to sleep agents in the us. ah, the organs are you my interested generally spying is not generally recognized as an occupation of that or can we can't just apply the the, the adventure. the excitement arose from traveling through 5 countries and 14 days are under 3 or 4 different names. hutton, but i had a few fishing and um,

fighting 15 years with the k g b, i never once held a gun in my hand and i had to 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. what was it then? i had to check into a hotel and completely forgot my new name. justin. a vision now missed in yet angry . holler. on a hill on the western outskirts of berlin is the appropriately titled teufel sped, or devil's mountain. the american's most important listening station was here alone in the forest, on the hill side with belly invisible in the distance. the site is open to visitors . it's aging poorly. it is still well secure it with what fuel is quoted. one piece via make it intercept radio signals here from far into poland, all in one is in the that's why the stars the end,

the k g p to could very seriously just a moment. they were repeatedly able to install their own spies, their thought i'm, if you want with you heads up to 1200 people there. in the 3 shift 8 our system. and those people were listening to the conversations and of washer back to states. and they just listen to it. and this is a boring job. so that is not the alive for you would expect as the being is by boring in film. the teufel spo gestalt is the nerve center of a highly charged city. a cia we need healing berlin. no one can know why you're there. does this you 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. mm hm. mm. the

marine felt a transit camp in west berlin. it's way east german refugees were 1st registered and housed, but not always, innocently. western secret services like the c i a, in the british m, i 6 wacked, even marie and felt a to ala did elbow grow 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 from 3 allied powers was part of the admission process before thought the aim was to persuade people that after now they decide to leave east germany. they might, could work for west germany. the shepherds as lived and spied in west berlin, but travelled regularly to their stars. he collective in east berlin. a covert

apartment was used to rely instructions and give them a place to have lunch and chat harmless were not for the other high profile spies. there we met for 13 years, always in that apartment. we weren't friends, but 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 fry a hand 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, as were active agents, the tales had to wait in the us,

they were to live under false identities, unnoticed. unseen loaf gov of i woods in and 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 close to voter wouldn't be bored, trapped your frozen burden food. we would have been supported the soviet agent network in the us again, and it says over at noon adapt, it's hard to tie and it was really lonely handle. 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 before loss a mosque army was nicu viagra. 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 air force by here for 9 of the royal air force was stationed here from 945 into the early ninety's, with my after the war, every occupying forest had their own airfield food. that's the ugly corner. the americans had temple off guard or the british had got towed the funds will and the french later got toggle harmon on the button and the british primarily did military recognizance english, which is commonly known as espionage shot over my landlord. frequent in the cliffs, 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 black 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 al aunt or o t stats, which i've got all almost a cinematic journey back in time. as if the end of casablanca had been filmed here, it wasn't. but the images are deceptively similar. ah ah, hang, afford got o airfield is particularly intriguing. it's the only hang on that remains closed to the public. m, and these are cancer hung over the entire hanger, was equipped with sound booth. booth will dance with state of the art listening equipment of got emma, i was spelled out. certainly the americans and the british always shared handle from i put to submit all by there were always british air force personnel in the

toilets berg surveillance station. and american personnel were also hearing that total us and british spies were especially active the way there were spies. there were 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 tumult. the allied museum is in the southern berlin district of darlin. need the former american military headquarters, spy threads converged here 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 on the oppressor position has been nothing the and it's often kaba, that was thrown into the you on one day watson bellingers breaking up on that with

the elders and then carla about off and yet i'm going to leave stop yawn, miss up are the unfair malika up to that building and gave length idea turner in i know i'm really gone is my das nazi on in the allied museum now exhibits original parts from the famous tunnel 6 meter 3 just by tunnel that was built in the early fifties and then was in service for a and months to tape the telephone conversation on the east german side, the telephone conversation. the soviets started, made out ministration 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 b that americans of british are 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 obviously aware that as a mold this i viewed sufficiently, found the tunnel 6 months later ending operation gold as it was known, pitches 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 cool? the shabbots has become 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 $1.00 talks about a worthy 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, one voter. 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 here, i'm gonna be the halls court. in the midst of the arms race, a famous ancient crossed the checkpoint. his political mission was just as important as the sense of entering absolutely hostile territory. the solitude of the agent ah,

a double. 070 for thanks. that's great. company checkpoint. charlie is one of berlin's best known landmarks he, a to wold 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 it and in moscow, gone on the shore. when we were back in moscow, they tried to persuade us to continue and as i did it, what's you out? the saw it and they said the situation had changed so much. o. smith knew that if we were in berlin, they couldn't help us any more. this year, under the 1st 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 dog goes of him and we thought of something like that happened. nobody would help us and that was it though this was and where 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 withdrew. they put me in the current records

and our neighbor came over to be a witness. well, the house was searched in the end agent shabbots was acquitted. the couple entered this spying careers 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. the cold war is over, but agents continue to operate. is berlin again between the fronts of a new cold war 1st

example, an execution slim chance chang gosh, really. a georgian shot dead in the t. a garden park, his death suspected to have been ordered by the russian 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 spy. 3rd example, in 2013 room is raged that the can embassy in berlin was why tapping top gym 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 for fossil fuels. in 2019, the german federal intelligence service responsible for foreign intelligence

gathering, moved into a $260000.00 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 cushions, sometimes deadly side to this city. ah ah ah, with

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