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Also known as "Stopwatch" to Britain's MI6, Gold was a joint operation carried out by the CIA in the 1950s to intercept communications exchanged on landlines destined for Soviet Army headquarters in Berlin
A recent espionage operation carried out by the Ukrainians and funded by the CIA takes us back underground to the days of the Berlin tunnels where the Russians spied "beyond the curtain".
The Cold War never ended. We repeat it often. Times, technologies and red lines within which to operate and not cross have changed. They have moved "beyond the old curtain," as they used to say. Espionage and intelligence operations to obtain information on the theoretical adversary and to know his movements, intercepting communications to prevent or react and to devise new strategies aimed at maintaining the status quo in balance through the art of diplomacy, they haven't stopped.
This is confirmed by the "Red Fish" operation, carried out in Ukraine. An operation that in some ways reminds us of the old Operation 'Gold'. Not in means, of course, nor in "spaces" or time. Only in the ultimate goal: to spy on the Russians at the point of contact and the border by digging underground.
In recent weeks it has become known to the world how the border between the Russian Federation and Ukraine was filled with secret underground bases, equipped with resources and training received from the CIA, between 80 and 800 agents of the Ukrainian intelligence of the Ukrainian General Sergej. Military intelligence service Hur i Dvoretskiy. The New York Times, for this important discovery, talked about narrow paths that led through dense forests to small bunkers dug several meters underground to accommodate the operation centers where for almost a decade telecommunications equipment and their interception were stored from powerful computer servers, which were first used to listen, spy and then hack into the encrypted communications networks of the Russian Army. Mistakenly deeming his communications network "secure" he has given the enemy valuable and often lethal information about his commanders.
Operation Redfish, in which the CIA has always overseen the training program for Ukrainian spies who would participate in it, began in 2016 and owes its name to a story featuring a "Russian-speaking redfish who offers wishes to two Estonians in exchange for his freedom". According to the sources, partially protected by anonymity, the Ukrainians were trained by American spies not only to "listen" and "intercept communications" via low-orbit spy satellites at night, but also to "recruit" informants and further steal information about Russians who are not very loyal to Moscow.
"This is the 'thing' that penetrates satellites and decodes secret conversations," General Dvoretskiy is said to have told a Times reporter who had the honor of visiting one of these bases; then showed him a large map outlining the path of a Russian spy satellite that had flown over "strategic military installations" in the eastern and central United States. Nothing the CIA didn't already know, perhaps, but the willingness and ability to eavesdrop on Russian communications "at the border" between NATO and Eastern Europe is a matter of very different importance. For Americans as well as for Ukrainians. Never forgetting the British, who unsurprisingly were also an integral part of Operation Gold: the tunnel dug under Berlin to allow the Western powers to "listen and spy" on the Eastern powers.
Like old times
Also known as "The Stopwatch" to Britain's MI6, Gold was a joint operation carried out by the CIA in the 1950s to intercept communications exchanged on landlines leaving or destined for the Soviet Army's headquarters in Berlin, the Stasi, the East German security and espionage organization and the GRU. To make this possible, the Americans and British used a tunnel dug in the occupation zone under Soviet jurisdiction, right where an important "call center" was located.
Activated in 1954 amid fears that the Soviets were planning a nuclear attack after successfully testing their hydrogen bomb, the entire operation involved wiretapping Red Army leaders to reveal Moscow's military plans. The CIA and SIS recorded 90,000 telephone communications in this way without knowing that a double-agent spy, Dutchman George Blake, enlisted in British MI6 but in the service of the Soviet KGB, had revealed to the Kremlin the existence of the tunnel and the purpose of since the beginning of the operation.
As is often the case in espionage matters, the Soviets waited two years before "discovering" the tunnel that was based on the one built in Vienna for Operation Silver. The official version was based on the strong desire to protect the mole in the English services, not to "hand over" compromised or misleading information to the opposing espionage in order to get the most out of the enemy operation. This at least according to the CIA, which in 2019 declassified a large part of the documentation related to this file. "There are no known attempts to give disinformation about the CIA", the Americans have always declared; while the English intelligence, which had provided equipment for wiretapping and recording communications, always "suspected" the opposite./ Adapted "Pamphlet" from "IlGiornale"
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