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Operation Stopwatch/Gold, said CIA chief Alan Dulles, was one of the most valuable and daring projects ever undertaken. In 1955 it ran a tunnel 800 ...Show synopsisOperation Stopwatch/Gold, said CIA chief Alan Dulles, was one of the most valuable and daring projects ever undertaken. In 1955 it ran a tunnel 800 metres under the Russian sector of Cold War Berlin, and for more than a year tuned into Red Army intelligence. This was an almost impossible trick: apart from the technical wizardry needed, any noise or vibration could have given the game away. When snow fell panic measures were suddenly needed to prevent it thawing in a tell-tale line leading to the target building.;That the operation succeeded is even more surprising than it looks. Trust, even between allies, was dangerous. Despite the Burgess and Maclean affair, the Americans had decided that co-operation was safe once more, and Stopwatch/Gold was a joint CIA/MI6 project using British expertise from a prototype in Vienna. This was a mistake: there was another mole in the British secret services, and the KGB knew about the tunnel even before it was built.;If the Red Army trusted the KGB, though, it too was mistaken. Why the KGB kept the secret to itself is one of the puzzles explored in this book. Was it inter-service rivalry?Was the British mole so valuable that the KGB sacrificed Red Army secrets rather than blow his cover? Or, since the Russians in fact had no plans to attack the West, did the KGB want that information leaked, to reduce the risk of surprise strikes the other way?;This book tells the story. David Stafford draws on eyewitness interviews and the full range of sources. Ironically, it was the Russians who supplied the minutes of the meeting that OK'd the tunnel. They had been taken by George Blake (who was of course the mole).Hide synopsis
Spies Beneath Berlin (Overlook Press) – Hardcover (2003)
by
David Stafford
Hardcover, Overlook Press 2003
English
222 pages
ISBN: 1585673617 ISBN-13: 9781585673612
Whether or not Operation Stopwatch/Gold was a success has been a point of contention, as new information about KGB mole George Blake and the Cold War has been uncovered. Now, using eyewitness interviews and source material--from KGB files to CIA documents--Stafford reveals the thrillingly complex story of this operation. Illustrations. maps.Whether or not Operation Stopwatch/Gold was a success has been a point of contention, as new information about KGB mole George Blake and the Cold War has been uncovered. Now, using eyewitness interviews and source material--from KGB files to CIA documents--Stafford reveals the thrillingly complex story of this operation. Illustrations. maps.Hide
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