Operation Gold

Zusatztext

The British-American spy tunnel extended approximately 330 metres from West Berlin into the GDR. From there, the intelligence services intercepted important telephone conversations between Soviet military personnel from May 1955 onwards. In total, over 400,000 telephone calls were intercepted. The Soviet intelligence service ended the operation in April 1956. The story is well known in film and literature, but only almost. In fact, an important piece of the puzzle piece has been missing until now, slumbering in the´archives of Berlin's underground world. It is the comprehensive documentation that was produced exclusively for the GDR Minister of the Interior, Karl Maron. It was generally considered lost. In fact, it contains previously unknown photos and details about the discovery of this tunnel and how it worked. A real find. It is introduced and explained by Dietmar Arnold, who knows Berlin's underworld like no other, and Helmut Müller-Enbergs, who studies Berlin's spies, sometimes for counter-espionage, sometimes as a researcher at the Free University of Berlin.

Autorenportrait

Dietmar Arnold, born in Berlin in 1964, studied Urban and Regional Pplanning at the Technical University of Berlin and wrote his thesis on the Beelitz sanatoriums. Since 1991, he has been conducting intensive research and publishing on Berlin's underground, and in 1997 he founded Berliner Unterwelten e. V. He was awarded the Order of Merit of the State of Berlin (2018) and the Federal Cross of Merit (2025). Helmut Müller-Enbergs, Prof. Dr. phil., born in Haltern am See in 1960, is an associate professor at the Center for Cold War Studies at the University of Southern Denmark in Odense, a visiting scholar at the Friedrich Meinecke Institute at the Free University of Berlin, and a senior fellow at Ruhr University Bochum. His research focuses on the history of intelligence services.

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