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The Good Waiter | show | 2016 | Official Featurette
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Cold War Berlin is a divided city of secrets.
00:04
To gain crucial intelligence, governments
00:07
are willing to greenlight what seem like impossible missions.
00:15
Berlin, during this time, you've
00:17
got British, American, and Soviet spies
00:19
all flocking to the city to try to get their hands
00:23
on any sort of information that can give their country just
00:25
a little bit of an edge.
00:28
Berlin had become a vast network
00:31
of underground communication channels
00:34
with various agencies, various intelligence groups,
00:37
trading information.
00:39
It's a vast network.
00:41
It's amazing.
00:42
In 1954, the US and Britain decide
00:45
to collaborate on an audacious plan.
00:49
The CIA with MI6 want to build a tunnel to tap into phone lines
00:54
so that we could listen to what the East Germans
00:56
were talking about.
00:59
This is a high-risk operation.
01:00
East and West are butting heads.
01:02
The Soviets want the Americans out of Berlin.
01:05
If they discover this tunnel, that'll be their excuse
01:08
to kick them out.
01:09
They need to build the tunnel without being detected.
01:13
But to add to the challenge, the CIA and MI6 operatives
01:18
are constantly being monitored by enemy watchtowers
01:21
and armed guards.
01:22
The area that they select to do this is just 1,500 feet away
01:28
from East Berlin.
01:29
But on the East Berlin side, where the phone lines are located,
01:32
there are prying eyes and military patrols.
01:35
So they're going to need a cover story if they're going to get away with it.
01:38
So they come up with a plan to build a two-story structure
01:44
over where the tunnel will begin.
01:46
It provides a cover for unloading equipment and then also removing the dirt
01:51
that's going to be pulled out of the tunnel itself.
01:54
And this two-story structure will then be disguised as a facility associated
01:59
with one of the airfields in the city.
02:01
They had to spend seven months laying the groundwork for this building.
02:05
Once that was done, they begin advancing the tunnel toward the East German side
02:10
of the border.
02:13
It took three teams working around the clock in shifts, back-breaking work.
02:19
The tunnel operation is very dangerous.
02:21
German patrols are going back and forth.
02:24
In order to prevent the discovery of the tunnel, the Americans have a lookout that signals
02:29
the people do in the tunnel to stop work when the German guards get too close.
02:33
They remove 3,000 tons of soil and then replace it with 125 tons of steel
02:39
to reinforce the walls of the tunnel.
02:42
Six months later, that 1,400-foot tunnel is ready to go,
02:46
and it's installed with these teleprinters that are attached to switchboards
02:49
that record and print communication.
02:51
It's a pretty remarkable achievement.
02:55
This wiretap discovers some very interesting things
02:58
about the establishment of the East German army and the training of that army.
03:03
It also reveals controversies between the border police and the army.
03:07
At the time, the CIA and MI6 believed this tunnel
03:11
will provide a continuous flow of intelligence for years.
03:15
But Mother Nature has other ideas.
03:17
11 months and 11 days after the completion of the tunnel, a freak rain event strikes the city of Berlin.
03:26
And as a result of very heavy rainfall, the phone lines go out.
03:31
A crew is sent to repair the phone lines.
03:35
And what did they find?
03:37
They found a tap on their lines.
03:40
And that wouldn't take any time at all for them to figure out that it was the Allies
03:49
underground listening to their intelligence operations.
03:52
The following day, Soviets called a press conference revealing the tunnel to the world.
03:59
They hope that the exposure will both embarrass the West and deter them from carrying out any future operations.
04:06
After the Soviets hold their press conference to reveal the discovery of the tunnel,
04:13
other Western nations are not downtrodden at the discovery.
04:16
They're impressed by the technology.
04:18
They're impressed that we were capable of something quite so bold.
04:21
The West's clandestine mission is blown.
04:25
But the operation remains one of the CIA's most celebrated successes of the 50s.
04:31
While the CIA declassifies a report on the top secret mission in 2007,
04:37
it has never fully disclosed the intelligence gathered.
04:41
The rest within the vaults remains top secret.
04:51
It's from 15 to 15 to 15 to 16.
04:56
In the past, I'll mention the light of the bow.
04:59
Our illustrator Trojan is coming to the 10th and the danger,
05:00
depending on the light of the Lauter Trojan,
05:01
which generates the capture of the bow.
05:02
According to the sky, it has never been rebuilt by the bow.
05:04
The bow is right on the mast.
05:05
What is the movement in the gate?
05:07
The angels are flying in the 50s.
05:09
The star of the bow is right here toward the rock.
05:11
The cel of the bow is right on the face.
05:11
The Ρν curtain of the bow is right.
05:15
The bow is right on the blade.
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