its munoz, on our website at dw com, the the capital finds patricia's 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 want to flush my passport down the train toilet. 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 if 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 of the cold war, live door to door, invalid fine. and i'm just following up here i started in and take and so get this if you need these one to elders. i believe donald is these ends up doing this kind of him because he gets to us on face spies was said to look on every corner in berlin from off to world war 2 until the 4th, the building will in 1999 1000000000 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 c team from not seeing the, the pottstown agreement divided totaling into 4 sectors. one each for the victors. but hostilities soon followed. the cold war had begun. east spelling was on the soviet rule, while the allies government, the remaining 3 sectors. in 1949 to germany square for the federal republic, which would join nato in 1955 and the democratic republic, which were joined the warsaw pact the same here. the bench on costco has been researching berlin and its spies for decades. and his co author was the book, capital of spies. the break comes around to 1947 when it was

obvious that the nation so going in different directions. berlin, west, germany, 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 island surrounded by socialist east, germany, east and west. and pals crushed the borders, but the representatives were allowed to move freely between sect is perfect for spies. the leading was the only city where this situation could be seen. and obviously this geo political situation offered a lot of possibilities for all, for intelligent services. and therefore, the i would say building is the capital code for a journey through secret island in search of spies, the dock side of the global c. c. we meet full. i'm

a spies with incredible stories. we were told to be careful look around, but there was those special training houses recognize the tour to the comforts him in t a t thought to spite of spelling victory. i know more important. in 1961, the cold war heats up dramatically. east germany built a wall between east and west berlin. that's light is eastern dimension piece. you'll find the item the most. i found it to be kind of 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 americans spying 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 countries secret police to use they were the country's top spies. the high profile target was the chancellor of the federal republic of germany, the department one a they were specialized in getting information from the chancellor's office. in this concert room. we were shot the we were train the spines and so we had, we knew we had a lot of work the 3rd day 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 frederick strauss a check point between east and west. berlin was a place of surveillance and the espionage. the stalls. a monitored who left the country and who met with their eyes and ears,

were almost everywhere the to separate the station. this theme from a small i film fill small american benjamin. the volume for the extra association was a hot spot for berlin's bi network. and there was fi gateways in both directions. wanna invited us 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. align in the us inspire nearly 3000 people were hired for the m s. s. and the 1st 2 years alone

in the state on the 5th, and that grew steadily until 1989, one of the one the buys, the science he's brutality remains a source of cinematic inspiration to this day. i think flu, a comedic series, the board is on slapstick. loud enough to under the sun sandwiches. the lions den. the stones he will head closer, didn't know monstrosity in east berlin. the museum opened to everyone, now stands with secret down. so it was once collected 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 report switch, where evaluations and all the shades of grey within the government was the one who photographed everything. and then i took the night train basel berlin jumped on the train, went in the toilet. i had to stand on the close and pulled down the ceiling and put the box in there. and then i went home to ship. it says we'd never expire is doing there because the years, but all the agents would over and over again on both sides the, the gleaning could bridge separates west berlin and pottstown. then a part of east germany, the bridge became the symbol of agent exchange. it's not time went to scene, and steven spielberg's film shows the cold and ruthlessness of

a tough business. open the gate, the rudolph, is there not the possibility that my people are going to shoot me? yeah. you're not worried. would it help the if you need help? okay, that's like the cleaning cut bridge is probably the most exaggerated spy location number landlord. and this keeps on safety. stuff that you need help with and with the hi mom buys were only exchange there 3 times in 1962, 85 and 86 as well. but it was still important in the context of berlin. the because it was used by vehicles for allied military emissions between west berlin and putnam dominy. i'm the lead him is your opinion of taking a couple of the tales with 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 buying for 10 years to be assigned

to sleep. the agents in the u. s. the a, a t o in guns or do you mind kitchen is buying is not generally recognized as an occupation of that. or you can't just apply the, the adventure. the excitement arose from traveling through 5 countries and 14 days it's in power under 3 or 4 different names hasn't been able to see a 15 and um, but in 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 if i put in a 100 and i'm to i once flushed my passport on the train toilet, then grabbed a new one for you to that the noise. and then what? then i had to check into a hotel and completely forgot my new name and vision nom it didn't yet i just have a on a hill. and the wisdom outskirts of building is the appropriately titled, teufel sped, or devil's mountain. the americans,

most important listening station was here alone in the forest and the hillside was barely in visible in the distance. the sides is open to pieces. it's aging poorly. it is still well secured. the deal is quite a month despite making intercept radio signals here from far into poland. and then that's why the stars the end, the k g b took it very seriously. i'm no more than they were repeatedly able to install their own spies, their thoughts. i can if you want to add some some. yeah. so you heads up to 1200 people there in the 3 shift a power system. and those people who are listening to the conversations and of washer and they just listen to it. and this is a boring job, so that is not

a life. so you would expect as a being as by boring in film, the choice was the style just the med center of a honey charged city. we need 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 because this was the a, you know, but regular citizens didn't notice anything in their everyday lives. become marie and shelter, transit camp in west berlin. it's where east german rescue cheese, well 1st registered and housed, but not always innocently. wisdom secret services like to see i a, in the position in my 6 lactic, the marine filled to all the all east. german citizens who came to west portland, had to 1st registering marie and failed to and being questioned by the intelligent

services from the 3 allied powers, was part of the admission process of cardboard. aim was to persuade people that often now they decide to leave 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 start 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. always in that apartment. we worked friends, but we worked well together. we became a cheese and developing our legend. so if we would ever, because we had it all clear, they gave me virtually fry on to the 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 the policies are 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 and they were to live under false identities. on noticed on seen one 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 in the us 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 we'll definitely try to tie 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 until no tuesday we left moscow not knowing for how long before the last and most com use me because if you got a secret chip at the west and most pointed berlin on the former east gym and bowed up time seems to have stood still account 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 l for us by here for north. the royal air force was stationed here from 1945 until the early ninety's. after the war, every occupying force had their own air field. that's the only kind of how the americans had temple halls, gospel, the british had got to the front,

and the french later got to take a human on the blueprint. and the british primarily did military recognizance was so which is commonly known as, as being our shotwell last month, landlord, frequent that input clips bonaza can. the zip codes for the 150, like the air field was directly on the border between west berlin and east germany . the uh, but it's 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 scottie, as well as one of the steps we to hide, got to almost to send a message. joining back in time, as at the end of casablanca, had been feeling too. it wasn't that the image is a distinctive visiting the

hang of ford guy. so if field is particularly intriguing, it's the only hang it that remains closed, the public 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 how can i put to submit about they were always british air force personnel and the toys, those bug surveillance station in the car and american personnel were also here in gato told us and pushed buys more especially active the way their response, they're also defective and double agents working both sides. 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 building district of donald need. the former american ministry headquarters spied spreads compared to with the c. i. analyzing sources and the bush planning a surveillance tunnel. the options will not be turned on investment and then the toner come to find out, present position expands not send the i'm gets i'm incompetent, was thrown into the 11 that wasn't feeling good. spinning on that one that isn't centralised about off the and yet i'm going to the least up to one and miss about on the, on the best outcome after that will be on the play. so the toner in, i'm in the comments on the desktop zone in the allied museum now exhibits original pumps from the famous tunnel it takes me to reach us 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 and the telephone conversation that associates southern midship ministration was doing the tunnel was problematic from the start pre k g b. you that the americans and the british were 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 heading problem? because if the tunnel would have been found very, very early in time, americans and british belt as a way of as low as the science officially found the tunnel. 6 months later ending operation gold. as it was not 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

like to the ship? it's has become spies. power, honey, ideals, east germany as an attempt at a better society. this experiment in the east was where the 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 checkpoint charlie in central but in the legendary crossing between west and east rules, tourists now. but we've been 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, do you have an outline for 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. the solitude of the agent, the great, the check point, 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 over play as many signs lost their jobs to political backgrounds. they've reason to be the details here 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. and then because our keys, edwards, who will have the sewer and they said the situation had change 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. no, no. 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 phone of the will where they punished. you know, jeffrey said, i think we have to be prepared and we were prepared. it was ok 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 with jeff. 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 ship, it's was acquitted. the couple ended this fine koreas 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. it's nearly 20 years later.

it's now and 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 cousin cases. the cold pool is also but agents continue to operate is building again between the front of the new cold hole. first 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 demand fell to his death from a russian embassy window in berlin. his body vanished shortly after blacky back to moscow. a spot 30 example in 2013 room is raged that

the amount can embassy in berlin was wanna tapping top. jim and politicians, including the chancellor politicians were furious. the tip of the iceberg, the pin for line is the european spike 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 massive 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 a dock c cushions, sometimes deadly assigned to this city. the

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