Table of Contents:
  • 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).