In spring 1955 the resident CIA Major Shelton on one of his agents found that 500 meters from the border of the American sector in West Berlin in the district Rudov is the main telephone cable between the main military headquarters, and main administrative center of the Soviet zone. This cable allows you to simultaneously carry 432 telephone conversations. But to connect to this phone line, required a very complex and diverse equipment. Yes, and do is in front of Soviet and East German border guards were almost impossible. But since it was quite an attractive object for intelligence gathering, competent American experts nevertheless began develop a plan to connect to a phone line. Finally, the summer of 1954, CIA Director Dulles, in accordance with the recommendations of experts decided to start construction of the tunnel. To camouflage his place gaskets started construction of a new radar station U.S.
Air Force. Tunnel at a depth of 6 meters, was connected with Rudov Alt-Glienicke. The most difficult in the construction were to get rid of the huge amount of land removed from the gallery. First, it dropped to the station, then began to export in containers. The digging of the tunnel took 7 months, and completed February 25, 1955. The tunnel had a diameter of about 180 centimeters.
Its walls were collected from the docked sheets of galvanized steel and in addition were surrounded with sandbags. Structure was soundproof., Equipped with fluorescent lights and air conditioning. Worked for elektropompy pumping water's ore. In the operating room set a few switches. They recorded the information from the three underground cables, each of which passes a telegraph and four telephone lines. On the walls of the tunnel 20 meters from each other were installed listening devices. Intercepted conversations were recorded on 600 tape, placed in the storeroom. Every day, it takes 1,200 man-hours and 800 bobbins film. In Washington, the 50 employees who held the CIA fluent German and Russian, were wiretap recordings that would extract useful information. The official version of Soviet defenses, the tunnel was discovered April 22, 1956 duty patrol during the control round. Some time the Soviet Union and East Germany used the tunnel as propaganda, demonstrating his foreign nationals and citizens of the GDR as a clear evidence of perfidy USA. But the 9 June 1956 goal tunnel was closed to public access. As it turned out, the Soviet Union learned of the existence of the tunnel much earlier still in 1955 by his agent, George Blake, and no doubt benefited from this information to their advantage.
Air Force. Tunnel at a depth of 6 meters, was connected with Rudov Alt-Glienicke. The most difficult in the construction were to get rid of the huge amount of land removed from the gallery. First, it dropped to the station, then began to export in containers. The digging of the tunnel took 7 months, and completed February 25, 1955. The tunnel had a diameter of about 180 centimeters.
Its walls were collected from the docked sheets of galvanized steel and in addition were surrounded with sandbags. Structure was soundproof., Equipped with fluorescent lights and air conditioning. Worked for elektropompy pumping water's ore. In the operating room set a few switches. They recorded the information from the three underground cables, each of which passes a telegraph and four telephone lines. On the walls of the tunnel 20 meters from each other were installed listening devices. Intercepted conversations were recorded on 600 tape, placed in the storeroom. Every day, it takes 1,200 man-hours and 800 bobbins film. In Washington, the 50 employees who held the CIA fluent German and Russian, were wiretap recordings that would extract useful information. The official version of Soviet defenses, the tunnel was discovered April 22, 1956 duty patrol during the control round. Some time the Soviet Union and East Germany used the tunnel as propaganda, demonstrating his foreign nationals and citizens of the GDR as a clear evidence of perfidy USA. But the 9 June 1956 goal tunnel was closed to public access. As it turned out, the Soviet Union learned of the existence of the tunnel much earlier still in 1955 by his agent, George Blake, and no doubt benefited from this information to their advantage.
