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Betrayal in Berlin, the true story of the Cold War's most audacious espionage operation, Steve Vogel

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Betrayal in Berlin

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Steve Vogel

the true story of the Cold War's most audacious espionage operation

Its code name was "Operation Gold," a wildly audacious CIA plan to construct a clandestine tunnel into East Berlin to tap into critical KGB and Soviet military telecommunication lines. The tunnel, crossing the border between the American and Soviet sectors, would have to be 1,500 feet (the length of the Empire State Building) with state-of-the-art equipment, built and operated literally under the feet of their Cold War adversaries. Success would provide the CIA and the British Secret Intelligence Service access to a vast treasure of intelligence. Exposure might spark a dangerous confrontation with the Soviets. As the Allies were burrowing into the German soil, a traitor, code-named Agent Diamond by his Soviet handlers, was burrowing into the operation itself. Steve Vogel's heart-pounding account of the operation vividly recreates post-war Berlin, a scarred, shadowy snake pit with thousands of spies and innumerable cover stories

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