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need a visa on taylor. i believe donald is these ends up soon. that's causing because he gets us funds by spies was said to look on every corner in berlin from off to world war 2, until the full of 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 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 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 saying here, the bench on costco has been researching berlin and it spies for decades. and his co authors, the book capital of spice, and the break comes around to 1947 when it was obvious that the nation so going in different directions in west germany, east 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 house crushed the borders, but the representatives were allowed to move really between sectors testing 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 all 4 intelligences. 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 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 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 gym and he built a wall between east and west berlin. that's like indian because he's going to mention peace. you'll find the item, the last. i found it to be coming. let's the best possible one by invoked 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 of the department, and one a. they were specialized in getting information from the chancellor's office when this concert with were shots. we were training 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. the former friedrich stross a check point between east and west. berlin was a place of surveillance, and the espionage, the saucy monitored who left the country and who met with their eyes and ears were almost everywhere. the set at the station, the same from a spice till 2 small american venture them in the event of literally, critics association was

a hot spot for berlin's by network. and there was 5 gateways in both directions. wanna invited this to the the strategy was formed in 1950 and conducted for an espionage well monitoring east germans as well. it took nap dissidents and operated its own prisons. a line in the us, in spite of 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 the buys. 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 with a slend sandwiches,

the the 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, the 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 boss. so 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 to ship. it says we

never expose doing that because the years. but all the agents would over and over again on both sides, the, the kleenex, a bridge separates west berlin and pump stopped. then a part of east germany, the bridge, became the symbol of agent exchanges. a not time went to scene in steven spielberg's film shows the cold and ruthlessness of a tough business to 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 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 safety stuff that you need help with. and with the high mile spies,

we're only exchange there 3 times in 1960 to 85 and 86. i mean, god forbid, it was still important in the context of berlin. the because it was used by vehicles for allied military emissions between west berlin and part of the many of the need him is your opinion of taking a couple of the tales with once agents for the soviet k g p, who also lived in 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 u. s. the p. o and grants. are you mind kitchen is buying is not generally recognized as an occupation of that, or you can't just comply 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. hutton toyota a few 15 and in 15 years with a k g b, i never once held a gun in my hand and introduce my room to a buffet and 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 i'm interested in yet. i just hopped up on a hill and the wisdom outskirts of building is the appropriately titled teufel, sped, or devil's mountain of the americans. most important listening station was here alone in the forest and the hillside was barely invisible in the distance. the sides item 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 and the k g b took it very seriously. i'm no more than they were repeatedly able to install their own spies, their thoughts if you want it from somebody else. so you heads up to 1200 people there and we shift 8 our system. and those people who are listening to the accommodations and of the washer. and they just listen to it. and this is a boring job. so that is not the life so you would expect to be is by boring in film. the 21st the style to submit the 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. because this was the a,

you know, but regular citizens didn't notice anything in their everyday lives, become the 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 bushes m i 6 went to the marie and sold it to low do 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. because 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. 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 team 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 the mean was our job was to establish ourselves as us citizens in case of war broke out between the soviet union and the us government . and the embassies close to go to when the board shaft, 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 we'll definitely try to tie it was really the only handle 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 tip at the west and most pointed berlin on the full in the 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 . the or i have forced by here for 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, got the economy, and 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 landlord frequented him because i feel gnostic 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 stars the 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, is similar or 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 post. oh, certainly the americans and the british always shared one of them 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 with 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 southern 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 option to not be found on investment and then the toner, kind of on the oppressive ization experience. nothing the, i'm good,

something copy that was thrown into the 11 that wasn't feeling good. spinning here from the elders and sen, toddler, who bought off the and yet i'm going to they leased up to on and messed up on the, on the bus downtown, up to that building on the play store, the toner in, i mean, they kind of some of our desktops, the 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 a 7 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 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 had a problem that because if the tunnel would have been found very, very early in time, americans and british. but i'll just be aware 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 play 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 a worthy 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 rose tourists now. but was then closely guarded by both sides the volta and 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 to find 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 comes 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 all were pleased. many spies lost their jobs to political back rooms. they've reason to be. the details were 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 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 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 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 shifts 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 to the central valley and in 2015 it's nearly 20 years later. it's now a most for spies fans, and recounts berlin 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 hole. first

example, an execution. send him change and go severely. a georgian shop did in the t a got in punk, his did suspect 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 at. the american embassy in berlin was want a tapping talk. jim and politicians, including the chancellor politicians were furious. the tip of the iceberg, the pin for lane is the european spike capital said the 2012, the 2018 president of the federal office for the protection of the constitution. i'm possible. 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 dock c cushions, sometimes deadly assigned to this city. the the

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