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This text is an insider's account of the espionage warfare in Berlin between CIA and KGB from 1945 to the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961. Two intelligence veterans - major players on opposite sides of the Cold War - have joined in a collaboration to tell the story.
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出版社周刊评论
During the period covered by this book, essentially 1948-1961, Berlin was the cockpit of Europe, if not the world. The two principal authors should know, they were thereMurphy as Chief of CIA's Berlin Operations Base (BOB), and Lieutenant General Konpdrashev as KGB Chief of the German Section. Bailey, who collaborated on the translation and writing, was the former director of Radio Liberty. The authors concentrate on the era before the Berlin Wall distanced BOB from the East, an era of provocations and reprisals that could easily have triggered a worldwide conflagration. The confrontations of East and West at this time were ominous. A CIA report indicated "The Soviet Union intends... to make the Western position in West Berlin so tenuous that the West will see no alternative but to withdraw." At the time, the U.S. had only token military forces in the city, the under-strength 118th Infantry Regiment, some unarmed Signal Corps detachments and a few companies of MPs. But the U.S. held its own, largely through superior information. New and important access to recently declassified files along with the authors' own knowledge make this a crucial addition to filling an important gap in our understanding of the Cold War. The book is not only authoritative, it is also well written and possesses the qualities of a very engaging espionage novelplots, subplots and myriad, often dubious, characters. Appendices give more in-depth source material on double agents, the Berlin Tunnel, Soviet illegals like Yevgeny Runge, aka "Max," and more. Illustrations not seen by PW. (Sept.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Kirkus评论
A troika of erstwhile adversaries team up to deliver an absorbing and authoritative inside view of how American and Soviet- bloc intelligence agencies plied their offbeat trade in divided Berlin during the first 15 years of the Cold War. Drawing on newly available archival material and their own experiences, Murphy (a sometime chief of the CIA's Berlin station), Kondrashev (who headed the KGB's German Section), and Bailey (a former director of Radio Liberty) offer an essentially chronological account of who was spying on whom in Berlin and to what avail, from V-E Day through the erection of the Berlin Wall in 1961. Before getting down to business, however, they provide brief rundowns on the major services, including the fledgling CIA, the thoroughly professional KGB, and East Germany's Stasi. Having set the scene, the authors recount the facts behind convulsive events that produced headlines throughout the world. Cases in point range from the 1953 uprisings in the German Democratic Republic, the tunnel the CIA dug to eavesdrop on supposedly secure phone conversations originating in the Eastern Sector, the cover- organization games played by both sides, counterintelligence as well as disinformation efforts and propaganda campaigns (e.g., Nikita Khrushchev's threat to sign a separate peace agreement with the GDR), and, of course, the Wall. Covered as well are the stories of high-profile defectors (Pyotr Popov, Otto John, et al.), interservice rivalries (notably, between the KGB and the Stasi). Both Moscow and Washington, the authors point out, ignored some crucial, first-rate intelligence gathered by their operatives in the field. Eye-opening detail on cloak-and-dagger operations in a conquered capital city that once threatened to alter the balance of world power and breach the world's hard-won peace. (illustrations, not seen) (Author tour)
《书目》(Booklist)书评
Yale continues its program of books on cold war espionage with a history of operations in Berlin, 1945^-61. It is a densely written, information-packed book that provides much useful background on how the U.S. could predict Soviet reaction to the Berlin airlift and what really happened in connection with the famous "Berlin Tunnel" in the late 1950s. It is not easy reading, though, which makes one wonder how much the two intelligence officers among its three coauthors are not saying to protect former colleagues and sources possibly still active in intelligence. Nonetheless, it is a valuable aid to comparing U.S. and Soviet intelligence operating "eyeball to eyeball" over the course of its time span. It will also furnish good, if demanding, backgrounding for deep-dyed fans of any of the countless cold war spy thrillers by the likes of Deighton and LeCarrethat have Berlin as their setting. --Roland Green
Choice 评论
This history book could not have been written ten years ago. In a unique example of informal Russian-American cooperation, the authors have provided an account of the intelligence of both nations in the very center of Cold War tensions. Murphy served as chief of the CIA's Berlin base, responsible for operations focused on the Soviet bloc; Bailey directed Radio Liberty, which beamed broadcasts behind the Iron Curtain; Kondrashev, a retired lieutenant general in the KGB, headed its German department. Sources include the archives of the US and the former USSR; interviews with figures on both sides of the conflict; and personal recollections based on the authors' own experience. One is not surprised to learn that Soviet spies tailored their reports to fit the personal predilections of Stalin, in the process endangering the security of their own country and creating global tensions as well. More startling is Soviet ignorance at the time of the 1948 Berlin airlift and the 1953 East Berlin uprising; the surprisingly dovish attitudes of NKVD chief Lavrenty Beria; and a tunnel to the Soviet zone built in 1955. One only wished the writing style matched the significance of the authors' findings. J. D. Doenecke; University of South Florida