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| Subject: Do you know why the East Germans built the Berlin Wall? - To keep the capitalists out - But we sneaked back in! Wed Aug 20, 2014 11:58 pm | |
| Berlin's past is everywhere, and its people never forget, writes Ben Groundwater.
There's still a spy in the old US listening station. Christopher McLarren looks every bit the spook today with his cloth flat cap, long beige trenchcoat and black leather gloves. He paces the area outside the gutted, graffiti-covered spy base in West Berlin, telling stories from the not-so-distant past.
"We had to know the Soviets as well as we knew ourselves," he recalls. "We had to know their codes and their call signs. We had to know the people we were listening to."
McLarren spent three years here at Teufelsberg working as a radio analyst at the height of the Cold War. On a hill near a forest on the outskirts of Berlin, this was a joint US and British field station, a place where radio conversations from around the Eastern Bloc were scanned, recorded and carefully studied.
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