Spies Beneath Berlin - Hardcover

Stafford, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1585673617 ISBN 13: 9781585673612

Publisher: Abrams Press, 2003

Synopsis

An account of the covert cold-war activities surrounding Operation Stopwatch/Gold traces the year-long high-risk surveillance of German Red Army intelligence from a secret tunnel and the activities of a British secret services mole who significantly impacted both sides. 15,000 first printing.

About this title

About the Author:

David Stafford, "an expert in Britain's wartime intelligence operations" (The Independent), is the author of eight books, including Roosevelt and Churchill, a Main Selection of the BOMC, and Secret Agent: The True Story of the Covert War Against Hitler. A former diplomat who has written extensively on intelligence history, he is currently project director at the Center for Second World War Studies at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland.

From Library Journal:

Since the collapse of the Soviet empire, books dealing with Cold War spying have come out fast and furious. Stafford (project director, Ctr. for Second World War Studies, Univ. of Edinburgh) has done his part by authoring such impressive recent works as Churchill and Secret Service and Roosevelt and Churchill: Men of Secrets. This time Stafford shares with us the fascinating story of the secret tunnel beneath the Russian sector of Berlin that existed for more than a year in the mid-1950s and enabled the British and Americans to tap into all area Russian telephone conversations. But this amazing intelligence achievement was complicated by another development: the KGB knew about the tunnel through the traitorous activities of its undercover agent, George Blake, but could not reveal that they knew for fear that they might compromise the invaluable Blake. Moreover, existing Soviet interagency competition resulted in the KGB's sacrificing Soviet military secrets to the West in order to protect their other ongoing espionage activities. Debate goes on about the tunnel operation's final significance. What a great story! And Stafford tells it exceedingly well in sprightly prose. This book belongs in all collections that cover Cold War espionage.
Ed Goedeken, Iowa State Univ. Lib., Ames
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About this edition

• Publisher: Abrams Press
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1585673617
• ISBN 13: 9781585673612
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 222