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The CIA's Berlin Tunnel Project.

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Brenda Elthon
Mar 29, 2021
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US troops welcomed in Berlin, 1961.

The Soviet Union’s military and diplomatic offices in eastern Europe stopped using radio signals to communicate with Moscow at the end of World War II. They switched to telephone landlines instead and many of these cables were routed through Berlin.

Monitoring the Soviet Union was the top priority for the CIA then.  Th…

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