in the 16th century, it meant being a captain and setting sail to discover a route, a race linked to military interests, a race linked to political and military christy, but also linked to man, financial and adventure full of hardships, dangers and death. but jillions journey around the world starts january 19th on d. o . l in the capitol spies both fictitious and re home. 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. and i'm so i one flesh my passport, done the train toilet spirit,

or we never felt like james bond fell in spite hot spots past and present till 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 service is waged that clash of titans in berlin, where opposing systems collided, the frontline of the cold war. the main protagonist of the cold war, live door to door in berlin. i'm has fallen up here, stolen and thinking. i'll get those of yona these out one to other shambling dom

estes. and that's your, that's kind of complete. guess there's an 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 or 2 was over and the city lay in ruins. germany 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's will formed the federal republic, which would join nato in 1955 and the democratic republic which were joined the warsaw pact the same here. ah, ban francesca has been researching berlin and its 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 a nation are going in different directions for berlin, west germany, germany was a 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 at the borders, but their representatives were allowed to move freely between sectors. perfect for spies. the lin 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 capitol, 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 proud to recognize that you were observed. oh, i thought him in tea at the duchess bottle affair. lean mixed i pneumonia and pour 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 i found a tubing gun and leslie buck, 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 americans spy couple. jeffrey and beatrice shabbots crossed between west and east berlin to meet with members of the ministry of state security, east chimneys intelligence service, as well as the starcy, 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 trained as spies. and so we had, we knew we had a lot of work,

they said 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 form of 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. with those set at the station, this scene from a spy film feels more american than german. ah, obama good extra station was a hot spot for berlin spine networking. there were spy gateways in both directions

. warner in by the, the storm the stars he was formed in 1950 and conducted foreign espionage wall 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, the one that buys the stars his brutality remains a source of cinematic inspiration to this day. lacking cleo, a comedic series that borders on slapstick allow this to over to flood and what he thinks the welcome

ah the lions den, the stars he were headquartered in gnomon and strauser in east berlin, a museum opened to every one. now stands where secret data 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 on the ceiling and put the box in there. and then i went home. the ship it says, would never expose during their active covert years,

but other agents were over and over again on both sides. ah, the galena 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. open the gate. ah rudolf, is there not the possibility that my people are going to shoot me? if you're not word, would it help if you need help? well, good life, the clinical bridge is probably the most exaggerated spy location in berlin to miss good pathways, often unique up what can with that i, my spies were only exchanged there 3 times in 1962,

85 and 86 at the gang up. but it was still important in the context of berlin, bruno because it was used by vehicles for allied military missions between west berlin and potsdam the olive need him, his urine printed off again a couple understood oh, the tales 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 u. s. ah fiona and sodium by inch teaching the spying is not generally recognized as an occupation of or can can't just apply the the adventure. the excitement arose from traveling 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 held a gun in my hand and i had to use my younger buffet and a 100 and i'm to i once flushed my passport down the train toilet, then grabbed a new one spirit about the noise when was it, then i had to check into a hotel and completely forgot my new name doesn't evasion. now miss denise exit. ha ha. on a hill on the western outskirts of berlin is the appropriately titled, teufel sped, 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, but is still well secured. mm . what fuel is going to want this fight? they could intercept radio signals here from far into poland technology and one is in that i this darzy and the k g

b took it very seriously asking moment they were repeatedly able to install their own spies, their daughter i'm, if you want something from you, you heads up to 1200 people there in the 3 shift 8 hour 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 spoke is styled as the nerve center of a highly charged city, a. c, i a, 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 to scuse 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 allah, the, the elbow, 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 the 3 allied powers, was part of the admission process before the aim was to persuades 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 the stars. he collect east berlin. a corvette 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 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 the 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 were of carver woods in 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 class devoted wouldn't be bored. trapped your frozen ben should we would have been supported. the soviet agent network in the us are good and it says over at noon or dr. bar to tie and it was really lonely. i know we could only rely on each other. and the separation from our family was of course, extremely difficult. i would um, from often until on a tuesday we left moscow not knowing for how long. yeah. if wouldn't awesome muskogee wilson, it could be for yog, a secret tip at the westernmost point of berlin, on the former east germany border time seems to have stood still at guttural airport. once used by the nazis allied victor, britain took over to world war 2. it's now

a military aviation museum. the oil air force by here for north of the royal air force was stationed here from 1945 until the early ninety's with us. after the war, every occupying force had their own airfield clots. the icon of the americans had temple off guard or the british had gotten the funds will and the french later got teagle homan on the brooklyn ha. and the british primarily did military recognizance dealership which is commonly known as espionage shot, or batman landlord frequent in booklet bonaza cont mm. f, who cuts the fancy steel at the air field was directly on the border between west berlin and east germany. the blip 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 are all he starts at a 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, hang, afford got all airfield is particularly intriguing. it's the only hanger that remains closed to the public. these are cancer hung over the entire hanger, was equipped with sound truth booth sounds with state of the art listening equipment and of copy. my mouth coach outsourcing the americans, and the british always shared one of my, belittle from it or by there were always british air force personnel. and the toys

spec surveillance station in the cat 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 tunnel. 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, my friend will not meet alana embassy, and then the toner condo on the oppressor position. they feared nothing. the un get something cargo that was thrown into the you. and when they're watson,

the longest breaking of one that went to elders in san carlos who bought up in yet, i'm glad they're relieved up, yawning, mess up on the on 5 galka up to that building and gave length idea toner in. i know i'm really cognizant of my dad's not thrown into the allied museum now exhibits original parts from the famous tunnel 6 meter through just by 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, the soviets, so that made to administration was doing the tunnel was problematic from the start, the k g b, u, that the americans and the british were listening to theirs. and this is, sir, because a british, a double agent, george blake told the k g b that americans of british or building this tunnel the can you be had

a problem that because if the tunnel would have been housed very, very early in time, americans of british valve is aware that as a mold, the side 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. palla, 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 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 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 had been out. i'm feeling one of the household 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, ah,

lemme double. 070. 4, thanks. answer, great. um mm 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 wool 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 them as our deeds. 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, under 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. no tutner. the dog goes of him 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 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 agents 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 have a 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 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 rumors raged at the a can embassy in berlin was one tapping top jim and politicians, including the chancellor politicians were furious. the tip of the iceberg. ah, ben, berlin, as the european spy capital said the 2012, the 2018 president of the federal office for the protection of the constitution for fossil should in 2019, the german federal intelligence service responsible for foreign intelligence gathering, moved into

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