Vienna , Berlin , Budapest , is the three major European spies during the Cold War.
, especially Berlin, due to the differences between the two major camps of the United States and the Soviet Union, the army staggered each other, which led to the secret war led by the two major US -Soviet camp intelligence agencies.
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at that time, the United States and the Soviet Union were still in the honeymoon period. In this case,
occupies the western region of Berlin, while the Soviet Union occupies the Karls Horst in the eastern suburbs.
was the webmaster of the Berlin Station of the US Central Intelligence Agency at the time was William Kim Harvey . As an American, he urgently wanted to know what the Soviet general was doing.
is to go to the boundary line every morning, looking at Carls Horst to the east, as if the voice of the Soviet army was in his ears.
is fast, and his dreams become a reality.
U.S. Central Intelligence Agency and British Military Six Bureau jointly established a plan to listen to the Soviet Command, codenamed "Gold Action".
So as an ally, why does the United States monitor the military information of the Soviet Union's occupation area in Berlin?
Berlin was occupied two and a half years after being occupied by the Allies. Because of the different political forms, it was divided into East and West Germany, and it was not interfered. The
Central Intelligence Bureau Berlin Station has a situation. They found that Karls Horst, where the Soviet Command is located, is the Soviet Union's communication hub throughout Eastern Europe.
, that is, all the communication lines of the Soviet Union's garrison in Eastern European troops must go through Errst, and then turned to Moscow. The discovery of
surprised the U.S. military. They thought that if they could eaveshed the communication line, they could know all the military operations of the Soviets.
subsequently held a meeting immediately, asking William Gold · Harvey to get information about the Soviets at all costs.
William Kim Harvey received the command, and was very confident because he learned that the CIA telecommunications expert Wilson had just developed a new eavesdropping technology.
Nelson found that when the encrypted phone was appointed by the voice of the voice, the echo of the original signal could be stayed on the communication cable , and this technology can be collected and restored to clear call voice.
then William Kim Harvey made his own suggestion at the time: excavated a tunnel to eavesdo the Berlin Soviet phone communication.
In December 1953, under the leadership of US Central Intelligence Agency Agent William Kim Havili, Central Intelligence Bureau and the British Secret Intelligence began cooperation.
They together in West Berlin underground towards the East Berlin occupied by the Soviet Union, that is, the Soviet Communications resident excavation tunnel. The purpose of
is also very simple: tries to dig near the communication cable of the East German Soviet army, and obtains communication information of the Soviet army of East Germany through eavesdropping technology.
Interestingly, in order to confuse the Soviets, the U.S. Engineering forces also specially established a large warehouse at a semi -underground warehouse at more than 100 meters at the junction of . The purpose of
is to accommodate the soil dug out of the tunnel to prevent being monitored by the Soviet spy.
then deliberately released the wind that they were building a radar station to observe the traffic near East Berlin Airport. At the same time,
, at the same time, the Central Intelligence Agency and the British Secret Intelligence Agency also set up a notice sign in Dongberlin in the tunnel. German and Russian wrote the words "Commander Feng, and it is strictly forbidden to enter."
Secret Tunnel's successful
February 25, 1955, this tunnel used to eavesdropped was officially completed.In order to record all the communication information of the Soviets,
, the Central Intelligence Agency and British Secret Intelligence Agency, , placed a total of 600 recorders in the warehouse, requiring all the communication contents to recording. The huge information flow of
causes the U.S. military to use an average of 800 sets of recording tape every day to record all the information, and it takes a minimum 4,000 -meter -long text to typing belt.
faces intricate information. In order to obtain valuable content, the US Central Intelligence Agency dispatched a special plane to handle the recording tape operation every week. After
, etc., after they deal with the materials, they are sent to the Central Intelligence Agency and the British Secret Intelligence Agency. In order to translate these materials at the same time,
is equipped with 50 people who are proficient in Russian and German. They are engaged in secret translation in a secret room with only about 4 square meters.
, however, when the Central Intelligence Agency and the British Secret Intelligence Agency indulged in Soviet intelligence.
, the Soviet spy that lurks in the British government, George Black has told the Soviet government through secret channels.
, that is, the Soviet Union has always knew what the United States and the United Kingdom did, but they just didn't say anything.
and the intelligence they received were after the Soviet government was screened, and even the confused information of fake fraud.
time was on April 3, 1956. A team Soviet communications soldiers accidentally discovered the tunnel during repair on the Sinfarde Highway in West Germany.
When they saw the word "Feng Chong's order and it was strictly forbidden to enter" on the door, they reported them to the chiefs in time. After
was affirmed, they informed the Soviet soldiers stationed in the border line and forcibly opened the tunnel door.
was shocking that there were 3 Americans working at the time. When they escaped, they even forgot to turn off the electric light and eavesdropper.
, the Soviet government quickly intervened and sent tunnels to take over the tunnel.
subsequently invited reporters from East Berlin. introduced how to discover the tunnel, and also allowed reporters to visit the tunnels and various facilities inside.
, in terms of the US Central Intelligence Agency and the British Secret Intelligence Agency, this was originally a foolproof thing.
is very puzzled. Why is the tunnel discovered by the Soviet government?
was until 1961, and then Poland's Deputy Director of the Military Intelligence Bureau of the People's Republic of China Mikhail Gelenevsky ran into the West.
, which makes George Black lurking in the British government, is exposed, and the United States and Britain understand the reasons why the failure of the golden action.
End
from the beginning to the end. The US Central Intelligence Agency has obtained a total of 50,000 disk recording tapes, 443,000 transcription conversations, 4 million hours of telecommunications through "Golden Action" . And 1750 intelligence reports. In the semi -true and semi -false information of
, the United States has mastered the basic situation of the Soviet and East Berlin ground forces, and also knows the address of some military equipment manufacturers in the Soviet Union.
was just condemned internationally internationally internationally. At that time, Khrushchev also reprimanded the despicable behavior of American intelligence agency . For a while,
, internationally, has accelerated the arrival of the second Berlin crisis, which also led to the determination to build the Berlin Wall in East Berlin.
References: "The Secret Contest in Berlin", "The" Berlin Tunnel "Case of the Central Love Bureau"
