American Cryptology during the Cold War - The Black Vault

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Years later the "accidental" discovery
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1961 George Blake, a British MI-6 official
who had been involved with the planning
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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~
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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
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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
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