American Cryptology during the Cold War - The Black Vault

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Ib) (1) Ib) (3) -50 USC 403 Ib) (3) -18 USC 798 Ib) (3) -P.L. 86-36 Ib) (1) Ib) (3) OGA In April 1956, after heavy rains causedinterruptions in communications service in the East Zone, East German maintenance workers discovered the taps and unearthed the entire operation. In the space of a few hours,1 Iwas shut down, and the acting commandant of the Soviet Berlin Garrison held a press conference on the site of the .. 'capitalist warmongers' expensive subterranean listening post.''' Now that the whole world knew abou~ ICIA could not continu~ Ifor security reasons. After April 1956, CIA sent an enormous volume of unprocessed channel hours HANDLE VIA TALENT KEYHOLE COMI OL SYSTEMS JOINTLY NOT REL TO FOREIGN NATIONALS 105
(b) (1) (b) (3) OGA Years later the "accidental" discovery otDcame under serious question. In 1961 George Blake, a British MI-6 official who had been involved with the planning 04 Iwas identified as a Soviet mole by a Polish defector and was subsequently arrested and jailed. In 1970 Blake, who had escaped from a British jail and fled to Moscow, bragged to the press that he had betrayed the Berlin Tunnel operation. It was also suspected that he had blown the whistle on th~ ~peration,too. Bitterness between NSA and CIA lasted for years. Canine was understandably upset when he found that he had been bypassed and left in the dark. DCI Allen Dulles once mused that George Blake (b) (1) (b)(3)-50 USC 403 (b) (3)-18 USC 798 (b) (3)-P.L. 86-36 NSA and CIA continued to clash over a variety of issues as long as Dulles and Canine were the respective helmsmen. Yet the warfare was oddly out of place in Dulles's office. According to historian Thomas Powers, Dulles "never attempted to exercise [authority over the Defense Department intelligence components], partly in the interest of maintaining bureaucratic peace with the military, and partly because he just did not care.,,93 HANDLE VIA TALENT KEYHOLE COMINT CON NOTR REIGN NATIONALS OINTLY 106
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NO. 90,3 UNITED STATES CRYPTOLOGIC
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