Download or read book Potsdam Mission written by James R. Holbrook and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2008-03 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recently declassified information makes it possible for the first time to tell part of the story behind the Cold War intelligence operations of the U.S. Military Liaison Mission (USMLM) to the Commander of the Soviet Army in Communist East Germany. Intelligence collection often led to dangerous encounters with the Cold War spies, Soviet and East German armies. On occasion, Allied officers and non-commissioned officers were seriously injured. Before it all ended with the collapse of the Iron Curtain, one French sergeant and one American officer had been killed. Potsdam Mission traces the development of the author into a Soviet/Russian specialist and U.S. Army intelligence officer. The author then relates his own intelligence collection forays into East Germany by taking the reader on trips that include several harrowing experiences and four arrests/detentions by the Soviets. Finally, the author describes the challenges and rewards of interpreting at USMLM and comments on the important role played by the Mission in Cold War intelligence. Readers who are searching for nonfiction espionage titles and military autobiography books wouldn't want to miss this masterpiece!
Download or read book Mission written by Thomas Wyckoff LTC, US Army (Ret.) and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2018-11-03 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mission A Cold War Remembrance By: Thomas Wyckoff LTC, US Army (Ret.) For fifty years following World War II, the US Military Liaison Mission (USMLM) to the Soviet Forces in East Germany was one of the premier intelligence collection organizations in the Cold War struggle between the United States and the Soviet Union. Operating “behind the lines” with excellent access to front line Soviet Forces in East Germany, the officers and non-commissioned officers of the allied Military Liaison Missions conducted continuous, close-up monitoring of the most powerful ground and air forces of the Soviet Union: those directly confronting NATO forces along the inter-German border. The author was a USMLM liaison officer for four years (1982-1986). He conducted 165 missions into East Germany, performing close surveillance of the nineteen Soviet divisions located there. Mission is a personal recollection of those surveillance activities. It is a close-up view of an organization that, for fifty years, stood on the cutting edge of the struggle between the United States and the Soviet Union
Download or read book American Forces in Berlin written by Robert P. Grathwol and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book BRIXMIS and the Secret Cold War written by Andrew Long and published by Pen and Sword History. This book was released on 2024-09-30 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed account of British intelligence operations in Cold War East Germany, revealing Soviet and East German military secrets from 1946 to 1990. The German Democratic Republic, or East Germany, was the frontline in the Cold War, packed with hundreds of thousands of Soviet and East German troops armed with the latest Warsaw Pact equipment, lined up along the 1,400 km Inner German Border. However, because of the repressive East German police state, little human intelligence about these forces reached the West. Who were they? Where were they located? What were they doing? How were they equipped? What were their intentions? NATO was lined up in West Germany to face these forces and relied on getting up-to-date intelligence to warn of any threat, ‘Indicators of Hostility’ that could be a precursor to an invasion. BRIXMIS, the British Commanders’-in-Chief Mission to the Soviet Forces in Germany, was on hand to provide that intelligence. Thanks to an obscure 1946 agreement between the British and Soviets that established ‘liaison missions’ in their respective zones of occupation, the British were able to send highly qualified military ‘observers’ into East Germany to roam (relatively) freely and keep an eye on what was going on. What started as ‘liaison’, a point of contact between the British and Soviet occupation forces, developed into a very sophisticated intelligence collection operation, sending ‘tours’ out every day of the year, between 1946 and when the Mission closed in 1990. These tours were undertaken in high-performance, highly modified marked vehicles, with personnel in uniform and unarmed, apart from professional photographic equipment and occasionally some top-secret gadgets from the boffins back in the UK. They joined their French and American colleagues in snooping around the opposition, photographing military bases, equipment, and maneuvers, and trying to evade capture by the secret police and counterintelligence units. They faced danger and violence daily, but thanks to their bravery and professionalism, the West had accurate and up-to-date information on what was happening in East Germany which helped keep the peace all that time. This is the story of this little-known unit and their exploits behind enemy lines.
Download or read book City of Hustle written by Patrick Hicks and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2022-10-11 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A part of Belt's City Anthology Series, a unique take on the South Dakota town residents call "the Best Little City in America." In 1992, Money magazine named Sioux Falls, South Dakota, the best place to
Download or read book Digest of International Law written by Marjorie Millace Whiteman and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 1346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book So Near to Apocalypse written by Clive Fletcher and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2007-08-01 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on actual historical events; some yet to be released to the public, this novel covers the vital weeks before the Cuba Crisis in mid-October 1962 when British Intelligence's Russian agent in the Kremlin, using a clandestine radio feed back to a Royal Signals and Intelligence Corps team, the vital information which finally convinced President Kennedy of the Soviet's true intentions with regard to putting nuclear missiles on Cuba. This agent's information allowed Kennedy to outmanoeuvre and humiliate the Russian Premier, Nikita Khrushchev and avert what would have been America's second Pearl Harbour. How MI6 exfiltrated this agent out of Russia to brief the President personally. He brings back one of Britain's infamous double agents who expose the Soviet spies still operating in British Intelligence and the answer to other unsolved mysteries. The novel concludes with revealing the plot and the actual players who carried out the assassination of Kennedy resulting from the Cuba Crisis.
Download or read book Journal of the proceedings of the annual convention written by Albany N.Y., diocese and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Berlin and the American Military written by Robert P. Grathwol and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1999-10 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Robert P. Grathwol and Donita M. Moorhus here tell the story in words and pictures of that city and the thousands of American soldiers and their families who served and lived there between 1945 and 1994. Oral histories depict the people, places, and events that comprise the history of this vital outpost of democracy in the middle of a Communist bloc."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Methodist Magazine and Quarterly Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1827 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Methodist Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1826 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Secrets of the Cold War written by Leland C. McCaslin and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the espionage files, an American soldier is nearly recruited in a downtown bar to be a spy and a First Sergeant is lured by sex to be an unknowing participant in spying. Behind-the-lines images are historic and intriguing. See photographs of a French officer and a Soviet officer relaxing in the East German woods in a temporary unofficial peace; 'James Bond' type cars with their light tricks and their ability to leave their Stasi shadows 'wheel spinning' in the snow will amaze readers. A Russian translator for the presidential hotline recounts a story about having to lock his doors in the Pentagon, separating himself and his sergeant from the Pentagon Generals when a message comes in from the Soviets. When he called the White House to relay the message to the President and stood by for a possible reply to the Soviet Chairman, he stopped working for the Generals and started working solely for the President.
Download or read book Endless Cold War written by Ltcol Dominik George Nargele Usmc (Ret) and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2009-08 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book "Endless Cold War" is a chronicle and memoir based on direct observations and statements from observers. It also adds empirical information from primary sources. The book contains analysis and themes based on the available data. The author's father directly observed the Russian revolution and subsequent events. The author escaped from Communism at the end of World War II and is a Dresden survivor. The author served in the Cuban Missile Crisis, a Haiti crisis, two tours in Vietnam, East Germany, Korea, the Dominican Republic and had other relevant assignments.
Download or read book Capital of Spies written by Sven Felix Kellerhoff and published by Casemate. This book was released on 2021-11-10 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An interesting, well-documented overview of Cold War espionage in Berlin” including photographs (Studies in Intelligence). For almost half a century, the hottest front in the Cold War ran through Berlin. From summer 1945 until 1990, the secret services of NATO and the Warsaw Pact fought an ongoing duel in the dark. Throughout the Cold War, espionage was part of everyday life in both East and West Berlin, with German spies playing a crucial part of operations on both sides: Erich Mielke’s Stasi and Reinhard Gehlen’s Federal Intelligence Service, for example. The construction of the wall in 1961 changed the political situation and the environment for espionage—the invisible front was now concreted and unmistakable. But the fundamentals had not changed: Berlin was and would remain the capital of spies until the fall of the Berlin Wall, a fact that makes it all the more surprising that there are hardly any books about the work of the secret services in Berlin during the Cold War. Now in this compelling volume, journalist Sven Felix Kellerhoff and historian Bernd von Kostka describe the spectacular successes and failures of the various secret services based in the city. “Engaging and useful.” —Journal of Military History
Download or read book Minutes of the Annual Conferences of the Methodist Episcopal Church written by Methodist Episcopal Church and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 886 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Outpost Berlin written by Harold Schwartz and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2010-12-30 with total page 565 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: University student Helmut Wegner curses himself for his procrastination as he waits in the rain in the muddy woods for his Flchthelfer, the escape helpers. Twelve weeks earlier, prior to August 13, 1961, he could have strolled easily across the border separating East Berlin from the section occupied by the three Western allies. Now, crossing the border is a dangerous endeavor. But Wegner is far from the only man who seeks to escape. Outpost Berlin chronicles the tales of both successful and failed escape attempts over the Berlin Wall since its erection in 1961. Each chapter begins with a short historical background and description of the location, a dedication to an American or German who played a significant role in the defense of West Berlin, and a prologue detailing the implications that the incidents had for West Berlins future. Capturing the essence of the era, Outpost Berlin presents a historical look at the stories of American military intelligence officers, German escapees, and the escape helpers.
