Operation Gold
The Tunnel, the Tapes, and the Betrayal (Zentara Cold War Operations Revealed)
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Operation Gold
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Narrated by:
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Lt Col Tom Briggs US Army Ret
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By:
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Miles Dunsford
About this listen
Operation Gold is one of the most extraordinary—and least believed—Cold War operations ever attempted: a secret tunnel dug beneath divided Berlin so Britain and America could listen directly to Soviet communications. It sounds like the plot of a spy thriller, yet it happened in real life, in a city where every street corner had eyes, every building had informants, and every shadow seemed to belong to someone else. This book takes you into that world, where engineering became espionage, and where the ground itself became a battleground.
Set against the tense, brittle atmosphere of 1950s Berlin, Operation Gold reveals how the West tried to break the fog of Soviet secrecy by doing something audacious enough to feel impossible. Instead of relying only on risky human sources—so often turned, exposed, or quietly swallowed by East German security—the intelligence services reached for a technical solution. If the Soviet state needed to talk to itself, then its words had to travel through cables. If the cables could be reached, the Soviet world could be heard. And if it couldn’t be done above ground, then it would be done below it.
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