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    Betrayal in Berlin: The True Story of the Cold War's Most Audacious Espionage Operation
    Betrayal in Berlin: The True Story of the Cold War's Most Audacious Espionage Operation
    Betrayal in Berlin: The True Story of the Cold War's Most Audacious Espionage Operation
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    Betrayal in Berlin: The True Story of the Cold War's Most Audacious Espionage Operation

    Written by Steve Vogel

    Narrated by Joel Richards

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    The astonishing true story of the Berlin Tunnel, one of the West’s greatest espionage operations of the Cold War—and the dangerous Soviet mole who betrayed it.

    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. Yet 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. . .

    Betrayal in Berlin is Steve Vogel’s heart pounding account of the operation. He vividly recreates post-war Berlin, a scarred, shadowy snake pit with thousands of spies and innumerable cover stories. It is also the most vivid account of George Blake, perhaps the most damaging mole of the Cold War. Drawing upon years of archival research, secret documents, and rare interviews with Blake himself, Vogel has crafted a true-life spy story as thrilling as the novels of John le Carré and Len Deighton.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperAudio
    Release dateSep 24, 2019
    ISBN9780062957795
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    Steve Vogel

    Steve Vogel is the author of Through the Perlious Fight and The Pentagon: A History, both published by Random House. He is a reporter for the national staff of the Washington Post who covers the federal government and frequently writes about the military and veterans. Based overseas from 1989 through 1994 and reporting for the Post and Army Times, he covered the fall of the Berlin Wall and the first Gulf War, and subsequently reported on military operations in Somalia, Rwanda, the Balkans, Afghanistan and Iraq. Vogel also covered the 9/11 attack on the Pentagon and its subsequent reconstruction. He lives in the Washington metro area.

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    • 5/5
      I find the Cold War to be so interesting and the many facets of betrayal that happened. So sad that people turned on their country and in the process had so many people killed. Overall, a good book.
    • 5/5
      A detailed rendition of a complex time in world history.
    • 5/5
      One of the best espionage non-fiction books to come along in a long time. George Blake makes Kim Philby and the Cambridge 5 look like amateurs. The damage he did to British and US intelligence operations during the 1950s in Berlin and elsewhere is truly remarkable. The book reads like a spy novel.
    • 4/5
      The truth is often stranger than fiction. In Betrayal in Berlin, we learn of the Berlin tunnel and the mole that told all about it. There is a wealth of information about both and it is an incredible read.Free review copy.