The CIA Built a Secret Tunnel. The KGB Knew From Day One

Описание: The CIA and MI6 built a tunnel beneath divided Berlin to tap Soviet military communications. There was one problem: the KGB knew the plan before construction began.

Operation GOLD became one of the Cold War’s most ambitious technical intelligence operations. For almost a year, Western services recorded Soviet calls while Moscow protected the mole who had betrayed the project: British intelligence officer George Blake.

This documentary uses real archive footage, photographs, maps and declassified records. No historical scenes were generated or reconstructed.

CHAPTERS
00:00 Berlin Before the Wall
02:31 A Warning From Inside MI6
03:35 Why the Cables Mattered
04:47 William King Harvey and the Plan
05:43 Operation GOLD
06:07 Building the Berlin Tunnel
09:08 The Listening Operation
11:10 Why Moscow Let It Continue
12:36 The Tunnel Is Discovered
14:40 Was Operation GOLD a Success?
15:53 The Human Vulnerability

ARCHIVE SOURCES AND CREDITS

Contextual footage:
• U.S. Army / U.S. National Archives, “This Is Berlin” (1953), NAID 26277 — public domain: https://archive.org/details/111-lc-33168
• U.S. Army / U.S. National Archives, West Berlin news sign footage (1950), NAID 22217 — Public Domain Mark 1.0: https://archive.org/details/ADC-8452b

Documents, maps and U.S. government images:
• Central Intelligence Agency, “Engineering the Berlin Tunnel,” Studies in Intelligence 52(1) — public domain: https://www.cia.gov/resources/csi/stu...
• U.S. Department of State, “Greater Berlin — Sectors of Occupation,” Department of State Publication 4107 (1951) — public domain.
• Allen W. Dulles: U.S. National Archives, 306-PS-59-17740 — public domain: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
• C-54 at Tempelhof: Henry Ries / U.S. Air Force / Library of Congress, CPH 3c36389 — public domain: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...

Bundesarchiv photographs:
• Bundesarchiv Bild 183-37695-0003, -0004, -0013, -0018, -0027, -0028, -0029, -0031, -0039, -0045, -0048 and -0051 / photographers as recorded on source — CC BY-SA 3.0 Germany; adapted: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ca...
• Bundesarchiv Bild 183-38777-0002 / Horst Sturm — CC BY-SA 3.0 Germany; adapted.
Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...

Other photographs:
• Preserved Berlin Tunnel at the Allied Museum: Anagoria — CC BY 3.0; adapted: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
• William King Harvey personnel-file photograph: CIA / U.S. National Archives, NARA record 104-10193-10076 — public domain: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
Licence for the Allied Museum photograph: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...
• George Blake (1953), Associated Press wire photograph, photographer unknown — public-domain rationale recorded by Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
• George Blake, photographer unknown — public-domain rationale recorded by Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...

Archive images were resized/cropped and, where needed, mildly tone-adjusted for editorial presentation. The 1950 and 1953 films are used as contextual images of divided Berlin and do not depict Operation GOLD.

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