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a visa on taylor to bring these these ends up soon. this hyphen thing gets us funded by spies was said to look on every corner in berlin from off to world or 2 until the following is the building roll in. 1999 fell in 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 nazi room. the, the pottstown agreement divided building into 4 sectors, one each for the victors. but hostilities soon followed the cold, who had to be gone east fairly and 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 saying here, the bench on costco has been researching berlin and spies for decades. and his co authors, the book capital spice of 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 code forward. and that's a 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 borders, but they representatives were allowed to move freely between sectors,

perfect for spies. berlin was the only city where this situation could be seen. and obviously this geo political situation offered a lot of possibilities for calls for intelligence services. and therefore, the i would say building is the capital of the code for the journey through secret island in search of spies, the dock side of the global city. we meet for them a spies with incredible stories. we were told to be careful look around. but there was no special training how to recognize that you were to the high school gym in t a t thought you spoke to a fairly fixed i know more important in 1961, the cold war heats up dramatically east gym and he built

a wall between east and west berlin. as light is eastern dimension piece, you'll find the item, the last i found it to be less the best customer when buying 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 cross 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 to use. they were the country's top spies. that high profile target was the chancellor of the federal republic of germany, the of the department, and one a. they were specialized in getting information from the chancellor's office. in this concert. we were shots, we went train the spines and so we had,

we knew we had a lot of work in that which is fine on the highest political figure in the country, making them some of the most dangerous agents of the postwar period in the form of friedrich strauss a check point between east and west. berlin was a place of surveillance and the espionage the stalls. a monitor who left the country and who met with their eyes and ears, were almost every way the set at the station. the same from a spice film, 2 small american benjamin, the critics tasa station was a hot spot for balanced by networking. 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 e, as in spite y'all. nearly 3000 people were hired for the m. s. s. and the 1st 2 years alone in the state on business, and that grew steadily until 1989 of the window by the stops these brutality remains a source of cinematic inspiration to this day, i think flew a comedic series. the board is on slapstick. said the name loud enough, the salon sandwiches. the

lions den, the stones he went ahead 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 clo and pulled down the ceiling and put the box in there. and then i went home. the ship it

says, would never expose during the active cause the years. but all the agents were over and over again on both sides. the, the kleenex of 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 knew the book is it's like the cleaning cut bridge is probably the most exaggerated spite location number landlord and then the skip tubbs safely stuff that unique up. what can do with the hi. my spies were only exchanged there 3 times

. in 1962, 85 and 86. but it was still important in the context of berlin because it was used by vehicles for allied military emissions between west berlin and plug dominy. i'm the new tim is your opinion of taking a couple of the tails for once. agents for the soviet k g p who also looked into the land and this quote yacht they were trained in the city. my wife has been paying for 10 years to be assigned to sleep. the agents in the us, the p. o and going to have your minds kitchen. the spying 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

a 15 and i did 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 buffett 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 it didn't yet, i just hopped up on a hill and the wisdom outskirts of filling 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 one despite they could 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 in some yes. so you have said up to 1200 people there and we shift 8 our system. and those people were listening to the conversations and a flush. and they just listen to it. and this is a boring job, so that is not the life you would expect to be, is by boring in film, the $24.00, the style, just the new center of a hyundai charge, sushi we need, 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 a, you know, but regular citizens didn't notice anything in their everyday lives,

become the marie and showed a chance of camp in west berlin. it's where east german rescue cheese profess registered and housed, but not always innocently. wisdom secret services like to see i a, in the british m, i. 6 went to the marie and sold it to load the, the elbow, the all east german citizens who came to west berlin, had to 1st registering marie and failed to pay them. and being questioned by the intelligence services from the 3 allied powers was part of the admission process. discard the 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 store as

a collective in east berlin. a co village apartment was used to relate instructions and give them a place to have lunch and chat. homeless were not for the of the high profile spies . they we've 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, because we had it all clear, they gave me virtually fry on to this 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, a case of war broke out between the soviet union and the us government. and the embassies close to go to when the board trapped your flows and then we would have been supported the soviet agent network in the u. s. again, and it says they'll be up in your and i just thought to tie i'm, it was really my only hand move. 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 points of berlin on the form of east gym and bowed up time seems to have stood still got to a post once used by the nazis allied victim,

britain to critize off to world war 2. it's now i'm going to treat aviation museum, [000:00:00;00] the the right of the house for a spot here from north to the royal air force was stationed here from 1945 until the early nineties, after the war, every occupying force had their own air field. that's the i'm of the economy. the americans had temple hoff uh, 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 lunch or if you're going to attempt eclipse viewing artic, and 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. the, the aunt of the stats, which are hard, got to almost to send a message, joining back in time. is it, the end of casablanca had been feeling too. it wasn't, that the image is a distinctive, similar hang afford guy. so if field is particularly intriguing, it's the only hang it that remains closed, the public, the, 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 spell it out to the americans and the british always shared how can i put to submit

a by they were always british air force personnel and the choices bug surveillance station in the car. and american personnel were also here in geico, auto. us and bush spies were especially active, the way their response. they're also defective and double agents are 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 district of dunham, need the form of american ministry headquarters spied spence compared to with the c i. analyzing sources and the bush planning a surveillance tunnel. the option to not be found on investment in the toner,

kind of on the oppressive is they should experience nothing. the on good top incompetent was thrown into the given one that wasn't feeling good, spinning on the elders and santana about off the and yet i'm going to the least up to on and mess about on the, on the best outcome up to that building on the play, so the toner in, i mean they kind of some of our desktop to on in the allied museum now exhibits original pumps from the famous tunnel 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 a telephone conversation that associates southern mitch administration 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 be that the americans and british, i'm building this tunnel. the can you be had a problem? because if the tunnel would have been found very, very early in time, americans and british payoff is a way of that as low as the type. it's officially found the tunnels 6 months later ending operation gold. as it was not pictures of the spawning 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 spawns, 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, we have found out right in front of me, the house clocked 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. solitude of the agent, the great company the, 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 cut and crumbled, re uniting the city. but not all were pleased. many spies lost their jobs to political back rooms. they've reason to be the

details who are in the us when they learn the rules of the full and the k. g. b agents decided to return to the most cova and i'm be sure when we were back in moscow, they tried to persuade us to continue then because the 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 of 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 when 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 the rest. and our son was mister,

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 find korea's 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 a 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 operation is building again between the front of

a new cold war. the 1st example an execution. so let me change and go severely. a georgian shot did in the t a got in punk, his dad 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 blacky back to moscow, a spine. 30 example in 2013 room is raged that the man can embassy in the lane was wanna tapping top. jim and politicians, including the chancellor politicians were furious. the tip of the iceberg, the pin for line is the europeans by capital said the 2012, the 2018 president of the federal office for the protection of the constitution. i'm the supervisor. sure. in 2019 the gym and federal intelligence service

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