to my arms out of the trigger, suicide and domestic abuse in turkey, dying to divorce. in 30 minutes on dw. what secrets? why behind being discovered new adventures in 360 degrees. and explore fascinating world heritage sites. dw world heritage 360. yeah. now, the berlin, the capital of spies, but fictitious dream, we were told to be careful, look around, if we would ever, 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,

we never felt like james bond root feelings, fine hot spots past and present till only a small part of the truth. the contract, the city holds even more of the truth told in countless spine movies the . the wisdom and eastern secret service is waged to a clash of titans. info named were opposing systems collided. the front line of the cold for the may for tegan is off the cold war, live door to door invalid. and i'm just following up here starting in 16. so give us a you don't need

a visa one toyota sampling style pcs. and that's the one that's causing because it gives us funds based spines was said to look on every corner in berlin, from off to world war 2, until the forwarded to building vote 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 city from not see room the, the pottstown agreement divided totally 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's were formed 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 it spies for decades. and his co author was 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 teeth, germany, was the beginning of the cold fall. and that's the point also where the intelligence collection started to get more intense with the lee and was now in island surrounded by socialist east germany, eastern and wisdom pals crushed the board is but the representatives were allowed to move freely between sectors. perfect for spies,

lynn was the only city where this situation could be seen. and obviously this geo political situation offered a lot of possibilities for all full intelligence service. and therefore, the i would say building is the capital code for the journey through secret island in search of spies, the dock side of a global c. c. we meet full. i'm a spies with incredible stories. we were told to be careful look around. but there was no special training now to recognize that you were to the high school gym in t a t thought to spite of filling fixed. i know more important in 1961, the cold war heats up dramatically east. germany built

a wall between east and west berlin. that's like indian because he's going to mention piece of golf biden's item. the last 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 find 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, to the department, and one a. they were specialized in getting information from the chancellor's office. in this concert room. we were shot the we were trained spine. and so we have

renew, we have a lot of work that 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 whom their eyes and ears were almost everywhere. the set at the station, the same from a spice film feels more americans. benjamin the critics association was a hot spot for berlin's bi network, and there was 5 gateways in both directions. warner invited us to

the the strategy was formed in 1950 and conducted for an espionage wall monitoring east germans as well. it took nap dissidents and operated its own prisons, a line in as in spite y'all, nearly 3000 people were hired for the m. s. s and the 1st 2 years alone, august 8th, on the 5th, and that grew steadily until 1989, one of the one device. the sponsors brutality remains a source of cinematic inspiration to this day. lacking clue, a comedic series. the board is on slapstick. loud enough to own the slender sandwiches the on

the lines to 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 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 close and pulled down the ceiling and put the box in there, and then i went home to ship. it says we never expose join 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 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 need help? okay, that's like the cleaning cut bridge is probably the most exaggerated spite location number landlord. and this keeps on safety stuff that you need help with. and with the high mile spies, we're only change there 3 times in 1960 to 85 and 86 as an example. but it was

still important in the context of berlin because it was used by vehicles for allied military emissions between west berlin and approximately how many of you need him. this your finish of taking a couple of the tails for 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 fighting for 10 years to be assigned to sleep. the agents in the us, the p o and guns are you mind kitchen is buying is not generally recognized as an occupation of that, or you can't just apply um 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 if she knew the

button 15 years with a k g. b. a 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 almost. then i had to check into a hotel and completely forgot my new name and vision nom, extend me. i just hopped up 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 visible in the distance. the sides is open to visiting its aging pooley that is still well secured. the deal is quite a month despite making intercept radio signals here from far into poland. and

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. they're going to, i can, if you want to from some yep. 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 the life so you would expect as a being as by boring in film, the 21st, the style just the mid center of a hyundai charge city. we need to, you know, want to 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 regular citizens didn't notice anything in their everyday lives,

become marie and showed a chance of camp in west berlin. it's where east german rescue cheese, well 1st registered and housed, but not always innocently. wisdom, secret services like the c i a, in the british m i. 6, went to the marie and filled it to the elbow. the all east german citizens who came to west berlin had to 1st registering murray and fell down. and being questioned by the intelligence 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 this dante 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 weren't 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 a policy. there's 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 out of cover vitamins in need was our job was to establish ourselves as us citizens in 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 it says 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 on so on the tuesday we left moscow not knowing for how long before last and most com use me because if you got a secret chip at the west and most pointed berlin on the full in the east gym and bowed up. time seems to have stood still account to a post once used by the nazis allied victim and to critize off to world war 2. it's

now i'm going to treat aviation museum the right out 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 airfield. that's the only kind of how the americans had temple hoff 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 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 stars the as well. the, the aunt of the stats, which i 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 afford 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 snell and the toys, those bug surveillance,

stationed 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 a mysterious tunnel. the. the allied museum is in the southern building district of dunham. need the form of american ministry headquarters spied spence compared to with the c i. analyzing sources and the brush planning a surveillance tunnel. the options will not be turned on. investment and then the toner. come to find out present position expands. not cindy, i'm good. thompson copy that was thrown into the 11 that wasn't feeling good.

spinning here from the elders and santana. you bought off you and yet i'm going to the leased up to on and messed up on the, on the bus downtown after that building on the place. 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 it takes me to sort of 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 and 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 that. and this is because produced a double agent, george blake told the k g be that the american simply dish. i'm building this

tunnel at the cage if you had a problem that 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 tunnels 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 thought in 2020 the why do people like like to the ship? it's has become spies, power, money, 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 charles tourists 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 and find out right in front of the, 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, the agent,

the double. 07. 0, thanks. that's 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 oh, what pleased many spies lost their jobs to political backgrounds. they've reason to be the, the teachers 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 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 were kidnapping people off the street here in berlin in the early ninety's. now, 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 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 arrest. and our son was with jeff. they put me in the current course, and our neighbor came over to be a witness. well,

the house was search in the end, agent shifts 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 in, in 2015, nearly 20 years later. it's now a most for spies funds and recounts buildings 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 authorize his bin and again between the fronts of the new cold war, the 1st example,

an execution. send him change and go severely. a georgian shot dead in the t a got in punk, his death suspect to have been ordered by the russian secret service. second example, in 2021 demand felt his death from a russian embassy window in berlin. his body vanished shortly after blacky back to moscow, a spine. the example in 2013 room is raged at the and there can embassy in berlin was wanna tapping top jim and politicians, including the chancellor politicians were furious. the tip of the iceberg, the bin for the end 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, for an intelligence gathering. moved into

a 260000 square 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 doc c cushion, sometimes deadly assigned to this city. the the,

the, the thing he was standing with a shotgun in his hand. he said, lie down and stretched out your legs. i'm not going to kill you. i'm just going to meet you crawl. finally, he shot my left leg, then my right leg. pulled my arms out and pulled the trigger.

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