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Knock knock Who’s there? KGB KGB who? We will ask the questions

cia, kgb are lucky johnny english not active during their time

31:05 "I met him on a train to Prague completely by chance. 7 years later it was him that recruited me to the CIA" It WAS NOT completely by chance that y'all met! Not even in the slightest. They been scouting you for a hot one brotha haha

Listening to these old gentlemen from WW2 is a treat and so valuable.

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I almost can not believe it’s been over 30 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall. As a young Cryptologist who worked with the U.S. Navy throughout Europe and the Middle East in the late 1980’s and later with the ONI and NRO I never realized how my work might have contributed to not only the fall of the Berlin Wall and East Germany but the also the collapse of the Soviet Union in general. Or maybe not. Thanks for sharing this video.

For coming up as a child during the 80’s section of the Cold War, it was still a part of life. Our tornado drills were basically bomb drills. Every once and a while the gas masks would come out. The gas masks was due to the “tornado”destroying the chemical plant near the school. Every once and a while I got fun training on how to survive. Looking back, it was one of the best ways to teach kids, just in case. Looking even further back, the public and private drills have made me prepped for the few moments that may punch through to survive.

The cold war times were weird but the espionage novel between cia and kgb is intriguing indeed

The new cold war is all these ads.

You could not isolate a society from the rest of the world - A lesson that is still being learned today, 32 years later.

Proof you can win a thousand battles and still lose the war!

I spent my first years in the US Army in the Berlin Brigade, 1977 to 1979. Assigned to the 2nd Bn/6th Infantry Regiment. Located at McNair Barracks. I remember the occasional spy swaps between the CIA and KGB. I don't know what the German name of the bridge between West Berlin and East Berlin. The Americans named that bridge Freedom Bridge. When there was a spy exchange nobody could go anywhere around Freedom Bridge.

That poor woman who was used ☹️ I felt so sorry for her

Such a great story. Amazing

48:35 I guess he didn't account for wind gusts that day when he put on his hairpiece.

So glad to spend time in Berlin in the 80s (Tempelhof - TCA) to experience the intriguing issues between east and west

If any of you have the possibility of coming to Berlin, you might like to visit the German Spy Museum at Leipziger Pl., the STASI Headquarters Museum, the Checkpoint Charlie Museum and the DDR Museum. The Glienicker Bridge is still there, near Potsdam. Something else that is well worth seeing are the guided tours of the escape tunnels and their stories under the Wall - Berliner Unterwelten.

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Great content but I was hoping to learn more about Field Station Berlin. Seems like good topic for follow-up documentary.

Billy Waugh was a legend even when I was a young guy learning what I needed to know to survive. That was a bloody long time ago. His stories are incredible. Everyone in SF or CIA can learn from his lessons in survival. He was a real hero whose record in service wil never be equaled.

'I was 32, I was intelligent' - proceeds to bring papers to a man she knows for less than a year, who tells her the papers are unimportant, so she should bring more of those unimportant papers. And SHE DOES! So much smartz. I tell you, some people...

Excellent presentation!

This war continues to this day.

Two corrections: Germany capitulated on 7 May 1945, and the CIA was not founded until September 1947. Until ‘47, it was still the OSS.

That lady still takes no responsibility.

Great piece!!!

Great documentary well done.🤔.

Former D/CIA: "It was not a nice game". I imagine not. How could 10,000s of KGB and Stasi agents see, visit and [some] live in the West and not want that for themselves and their families forever v. what they had in USSR or DDR? I'd like to see a video on family/friend reunions (assuming any) after the Stasi files became public and you were able to see who spied on you, what was said and/or who cost you x-years in prison for uttering a simple derogatory statement. Forgiveness? Revenge? Did the murder rate or assault rate go up in Germany after the fall of the DDR? I don't think I'd be too forgiving if I learned that a close relative or friend reported me to the Stasi and I then spent 10 years in a DDR prison. The sheer number of spies world wide must be astonishing.

One point of correction: The Berlin airlift did not only involve the Americans, much as they like to make it look that way. The RAF flew into RAF Gatow in south-west Berlin and the French into Tegel in the north-west at the same time as the USAF flew into Tempelhof. Airmen from all three allied air forces lost their lives in this dangerous enterprise. Also, Teufelsberg was useful to the Brits as well as the Americans. Don't forget that the Soviet Army and Air Force were present in huge numbers in the GDR, so much more than telephone calls were intercepted.

Very nice and interesting video .

The more you hear these stories and the more you learn, the more you realise it was really all about communication and the lack of between the two nations. There will always be differences of opinions, but it makes you wonder why they just don't talk to each other..

I agree with an ex-cia agent in Secrets of War series who concluded that CIA was pretty much in their history being one step behind and largely followed KGB's rule of the game. KGB had 2 advantages CIA not, 1st it was an older organization dating back from Cheka time in 1920s. Its operational methods were derived from grass root activities since Tsarist era. Consequently, it had more engagement to grass root elements of society such as labour unions, women's organization, and peasant unions. CIA had no such connections and experience, and it was originally a manifestation of an emergency idea out of the OSS whose mission was primarily as special operation commandos, so its role was not originally being an intelligence agency in purest form unlike KGB. 2nd, KGB controlled the position of state security, therefore was also holding several vital security directorates incl. external-internal intelligences, espionage, and secret police whilst CIA was largely limited to external intelligence before being enlarged to include espionage in 1950s. In turn, KGB controlled large number of information from its naturally secretive chain of operations CIA didnt even possess before. Still, CIA doesnt have and never will to have the function of secret police in which, according to the ex-CIA, was giving KGB advantages on propaganda, grass root recruitment, and misinformation operations. These resulted on why KGB had it easier to establish new contacts and networks than CIA with or without large fundings. In those early Cold War periods, only Mossad that was equal to KGB.

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Very interesting content.

The KGB man is hysterical. “We were better because we had better ideals” scoreboard buddy, scoreboard.

"How the CIA and the KGB fought over Berlin" one word "bell"

Able Archer '83 affirmed how close the Soviets were to collapse; once on their knees, the rest was inevitable.

Thanks!

'Everything fair in love and war', I do not know about love but it is certainly true about war.

My dad was stationed in Germany during the late 60s. His task was to do whatever maintenance required welding in the zone between West and East. He told his helper not to wander off. The East take their wall seriously. And they are watching us. He started wandering around and an an East German in a snow suit appeared out of nowhere. He pointed to the Army truck. My dad made a show of slapping his helper in the back of the head for being stupid. The German smiled and nodded. My dad shrugged and nodded back. And just as fast as the Border gaurd appeared he disappeared back into cover. My dad got some sort of reward for it but thought it was silly. Other young men were dying in Vietnam and he was repairing and installing outhouses with incinerator toilets. He was drafted and happy enough with his assignment. Counted himself lucky to get it.

If you not born into war, you can't understand it, it's just not words

Good content!

@ 33:31, and the previous few minibuses. I would enjoy learning more, of this journey. Especially., the Berchedesgaten area (hope I spelled correctly. I am ready

The best part of waking up is Folgers in your cup

Imagine being an ex Stasi agent. All those lives you ruined, or tried your best to. Yeah you may have been better at things, but the West never tried to control people like that. I think some secrets were just allowed to be leaked so that the Eastern Bloc could worry about how far behind they actually were. The East German inferiority complex was a driving factor behind the Stasi. They were right, they were inferior, to the West and the Soviets. Imagine being the lapdog of the Soviets, sad. And when the Soviets tried, too late to reform, the East Germans still maintained that Stalinist nonsense

got to see the Candy Bomber as it toured a few years ago

Great video but the amount of ads disturbs the flow of concentration for the documentary.

I remember some of these things. I was Berlin Bde 82 -85.

48:34 That CIA guy's combover got caught in the wind LOL.

Both a blessing & a curse to have all this history happening! Sowing the seeds of dissent

Great....

US historian at the 51 minute mark not particularly familiar with complexities of infiltrating agents into the USSR and the wider Eastern Block. He cites counter-intelligence as the reason. That's hardly the principal reason. Much more crucial to this was 1) border inpenetrability. These were not states with porous borders. 2) Fear as disincentive. To serve as a Western agent within Soviet and Soviet-satellite borders was sensationally dangerous. Consequences would extend outward from the agent, to his family, friends and even colleagues. The exponential layers of punishment was a serious deterrent. 3) Proximity. Anyone even remotely close to areas of strategic sensitivity were under considerably-great levels of observation and scrutiny. To turn someone in a Soviet ministry, major manufacturing facility, defense industry would be similar to trying to flip someone in the US working at Area 51. This is largely why the most effective flips were actually KGB or GRU agents. They were the observers, not the observed.

Hardware guy , love it

I explored and found "Rat Lines" for Consulate VIP, München etc...

Going through those Ghost stations must have been some experience....

What were the advantages or strengths each side (the CIA and KGB) had during the different stages of this secret spy war?

"I was pretty, intelligent" LOL, yeah, you were so intelligent you leaked documents to the enemy

Does anyone know where that last line "We call them ambassadors of peace, but no one knows who they are," is from? Also, what is the credits song? I cannot find it.

Is it me or is this type of warfare more intriguing than conventional warfare.

24:30 Ohhhh Pershing II was never deployed until the 1980s, 1983 if I'm correct.

Went through there in 67 spent a night on the platform drinking Apfelsaft and great German beer!

Thank you very 🙏🙏 much 😅❤

I think that 9 commercial interruptions it's a bit obscene for this documentary. You seem a little greedier than American tv networks. One would have sufficed. Thank you.

"1 in 3 Germans are on files." Google - hold my smartphone.

This was really interesting. All the more as I grew up during the end of the Cold War. I remember it well.

My dad has story on getting out of East Berlin, with the help of a woman they didn't know. She gave them tickets to the train ride, slipped back to West Berlin. I'm still waiting to go to Berlin. Imagine the train rides I can take! Check Point Charlie!!!

3:50 that middle man handshake was to prevent a poisioning im assuming?

It was the ideology that kept them going and it was the ideology that lost.

45:26 Considering this would have been visible to the East Germans, I feel there is some subtext in the placement of the um ... balls

10:20 Karlshorst is actually situated IN (central eastern) Berlin (belonging to Lichtenberg)

Good Doco... the 10 ads throughout it make for a terrible experience to watch sadly

The man of her dreams appears and she feels like running away . . . Gabriella sounded a little mixed up from the start.

Damn how many lives were ruined from two organizations.

That satelite has balls 😂🤣

Best tour I ever had 74-79. The stories I could would seem like a comedy now.

I never knew Dame Edna Everidge was a spy at 25 30

This a good one. Like mayweather vs tyson if both had similar stats

Goos documentary

I had no idea that makes sense

Omg that 1 dudes laugh (I’m not even gonna say who bc y’all know who I mean lol) is tooooo mf much lmao

Reckon I can spot Deutschlanders who grew up in the DDR. Things like never forgetting their day on the apartment building's snow-shoveling roster, being (extra) cold with strangers.

As a TWA pilot and a Reserve Marine. I would pick up trips to Berlin to troll the KGB, saying I was doing secret preparation for the USMC in Berlin. 😅😮😂

Can someone tell me the name of the song which has been played at 23:00?

General George S. Patton said about the Soviets: “Lets not give them time to build up their supplies. If we do, then… we have had a victory over the Germans and disarmed them, but we’ve failed in the liberation of Europe; we have lost the war!” He wrote to his wife: “If we have to fight them, now is the time. From now on, we will get weaker and they stronger.” The media would now begin a campaign to discredit General Patton. Patton, on September 22, 1945: “There is a very apparent Semitic influence in the press. They are trying to do two things: First, implement Communism, and Second, see that all businessmen of German ancestry and non-Jewish antecedents are thrown out of their jobs… … in my opinion and that of nonpolitical officers, it is vitally necessary for us to build Germany up now as a buffer state against Russia. In fact, I’m afraid we have waited too long.” And in a letter later that night to his wife: “I can’t tell them the truth that unless we restore Germany we will ensure that Communism takes America.”

4 agents vs 23 agents and both sides think it's a fair deal ? , guess this is where the matter of quality gets involved

there are a ton of ads on this video. it's really irritating because it's such a great video.

Wait I thought Eisenhower officially started that , wasn't it called something else at that time?

KGB had huge presence in East Germany because KGB had to go against the American CIA, British MI6 and West German BND.

I love these Timeline documentaries but is it necessary for there to be this many ads? I mean 13 ads in a 50 minute video has to be some kind of record

The problem Is that the results of the soviet union's ideological warfare are more apparent today than ever.

I think it was The Shepard, with Matt Damon; best cinema depiction I would say.

I remember Mad Magazine's Spy vs Spy.

And the end result was the fall of the Soviet Union.

31:11 lmfao this dude looks more like the CIA than the CIA does 😂

The one time that Eisenhower was wrong he should have let Patton move forward

Not too bad a documentary but, it does leave one with the feeling that there was a symmetry of culpability between the C.I.A. and the K.G.B. As though these were two muscle men pulling in opposite directions in an irrelevant tug of war. But the reality was that the Soviets were unwilling to leave their zone of occupation, in the north-east part of Germany, after the 2nd World War. The English, French and Americans were willing to leave but, since the communists were not, the people of Germany asked the other Western Allies to remain, fearing that if they went, the Soviets would try to pocket all of Germany. The whole reason the Soviets took the north-eastern third of Germany, was because it contained Germany's capital city of Berlin. The Soviets did have the nefarious intention of spreading communism all over Germany and the Western powers, particularly the Americans, were there to protect the rest of Germany, from being engulfed by these communists. So it really is a story of good versus evil. Unfortunately our media has a tendency to depress everything to the lowest common denominator.

"No where. near .Berlin."

I've never seen a survey that ask the question about the relevance of a movie ad.