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1 online resource (xxv, 530 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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CIA's Berlin base: a question of knowledge -- KGB Karlshorst: how it all began -- The Berlin blockade challenges Western ingenuity and perseverance -- The Korean War: pretext or premise for rearming West Germany? -- Cold warriors in Berlin: a new era in CIA operations -- East German state security and intelligence services are born -- Stalin offers peace, but the Cold War continues -- Soviet intelligence falters after Stalin's death: new revelations about Beria's role -- The events of June 1953 -- The mysterious case of Otto John -- The Berlin tunnel: fact and fiction -- Redcap operations -- BOB concentrates on Karlshorst -- The illegals game: KGB vs. GRU -- KGB and Mfs: partners or competitors? -- Khrushchev's ultimatum -- BOB counters the Soviet propaganda campaign -- Bluffs, threats, and counterpressures -- Facing the inevitable -- Countdown to the wall -- The Berlin Wall: winners and losers -- Epilogue -- Appendix 1. The merger from CIA and KGB archives -- Appendix 2. Double agents, double trouble -- Appendix 3. The mysterious case of Leonid Malinin, a.k.a. Georgiev -- Appendix 4. MGB at work in East Germany -- Appendix 5. Was it worth it? What the Berlin tunnel produced -- Appendix 6. BOB's attempts to protect Karlshorst sources backfire -- Appendix 7. KGB illegals in Karlshorst: the third development -- Appendix 8. Soviet active measures: a brief overview -- Appendix 9. Operation Gold (SIS document obtained by George Blake). |
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0585353581 (e-book) |
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9780585353586 (e-book) |
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9780300143027 (e-book) |
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0300143028 (e-book) |
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