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Discovery of the listening tunnel of the American secret service, 1956 (b/w photo)

Discovery of the listening tunnel of the American secret service, 1956 (b/w photo)
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IMAGE number
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Image title
Discovery of the listening tunnel of the American secret service, 1956 (b/w photo)
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Photographer
Alfred Strobel
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black and white photograph
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Berlin, Berlin/City State, Germany At the sector borders in Alt-Glienicke near Berlin the KGB discovered a large listening tunnel of the American secret service. The installation tapped the telephone lines of the Soviets. The discovery of the tunnel was made public by the Soviet leadership for propaganda purposes. The picture shows a Russian soldier pointing a spotlight at one of the tunnel shafts.

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© SZ Photo / Alfred Strobel / Bridgeman Images
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Germany / Europe / Berlin / USA / North America / America (continent) / espionage / Intelligence / historical / intercept / monitoring service / politics / tunnel / Bugging / cold war / communication / communications / Covert Listening Service / eavesdropping equipment / hidden / historic / Listen / Monitoring System / news / secret / Secret Service / sector boundary / spying / technology / telecommunications / telephone cables / Wiretapping Tunnel

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