Voices Under Berlin: Berlin Links

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The Field Station Berlin Vets Group

This is the place to go for Field Station Berlin Vets on the web. There is a Yahoo Group where you can swap war stories and talk with other FSB vets, photos of Berlin and T-berg, as well as a host of resources like the Reunion page.

Field Station Berlin Reunion: Boston, October 3 - 5, 2008

This is the place to go to learn all about the up-coming reunion in Boston. Check out the door prizes.

For FSB souvenirs like:

stickers Field Station Berlin Sticker , mugs Field Station Berlin Cup , note cards Field Station Berlin Notes , a clock Field Station Berlin Clock ,

a Christmas Tree Ornament Field Station Berlin Christmas Tree Ornament , or a reunion golf shirt Field Station Berlin Reunion Golf Shirt ,

we invite you to visit the Voices Under Berlin store at CafePress.

The Berlin Island Association

This is the place to go for Air Force vets of USAF Security Service (USAFSS), USAF Electronic Security Command (ESC), USAF Intelligence Command (AFIC), Air Intelligence Agency (AIA) units in Berlin, Germany. "Dedicated to the heroes and heroines of Tempelhof, Marienfelde, Teufelsberg, Club Silverwings and other places of high social repute." Most of the features are "Members Only," but be sure to take a look at the "Welcome to Berlin" packet on the "Mementos Page". Their only swag is BIA lapel pins. It's a neat pin. Too bad I wasn't in the Air Force.

Gatow Old Boys Association

The Royal Air Force equivalent of The Berlin Island Association.

Berliner Kameraden

An association of former members of the 280th ASA Co in Berlin. Has a history of the 280th ASA Co, a history of Andrews Barracks and a photo gallery.

Field Station Berlin

The FSB page at Military.com. Not as active as the FSB Vets Group, but, nevertheless, a place to look for FSB vets. Registration required. Ignore the swag links on the page. They are only for general military stuff; nothing specific to FSB.

USMLM Association

United States Military Liaison Mission to the Commander-in-Chief, Group of Soviet Forces, Germany (USMLM), had its representational headquarters in Potsdam, and its Operational & Administrative Headquarters in West Berlin. The Mission was a four-service unit staffed by officers and enlisted men from the US Army, Air Force, Navy, and Marine Corps.

Berlin U.S. Military Veterans Association

A place to get together with Berlin Brigade vets. They have an active Reunion program. Dues are $20/year, for which you get a newsletter.

Berlin Brigade Memories

This website is just what its name implies: a website full of memories about the American presence in Berlin. A much less formal site than the Allied Museum, it is full of snap shots of places that those stationed in Berlin will immediately recognize: from the PX and Commissary, to McNair, Andrews and Clay Allee, from USMLM to T-berg. Heartily recommended as a place to visit.

Berlin Tunnel

Website Links

The Cold War Museum

The Cold War Museum is presently only a virtual museum, but it is looking forward to developing its permanent physical location at the Lorton Nike Missile Base upon approval from Fairfax County Park Authority. The museum has an article on the PBJOINTLY (Project Gold) tunnel, written by T.H.E. Hill.

The Allied Museum in Berlin

Located on Clay Allee in the Outpost Theater and "Nicholson Library", they have exhibits commemorating the period during which the city of Berlin was Occupied by American, British, French and Soviet military forces. The museum has an article on the PBJOINTLY (Project Gold) tunnel. It also has a number of "tunnel" pages"

The International Spy Museum

The International Spy Museum—located in downtown, Washington, DC at 800 F Street, NW—also has a Berlin tunnel exhibit.

The CIA

The Declassified CLANDESTINE SERVICES HISTORY: THE BERLIN TUNNEL OPERATION 1952-1956 is available from the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Electronic Reading Room. Just search for "Berlin Tunnel". Must reading for every spy tunnel aficionado.

Wonderful Tunnel

The original Time Magazine article on Project GOLD from Monday, May. 07, 1956. The last line is quoted in Voices Under Berlin: "It's the best publicity the U.S. has had in Berlin for a long time."

The Berlin Spy Tunnel Affair

An interesting article on Project GOLD from Invention & Technology Magazine (Spring 1995 Volume 10, Issue 4). A good, brief overview.

The Spooks from Rudow

A first-hand account of the Berlin tunnel (located in the Rudow district of Berlin) with pictures by John Quirk. Hosted by Berlin Brigade Memories.

CIA: The 1950s: The Berlin Tunnel: (Operation PBJOINTLY)

A very-good academic overview of the specialist literature on the Berlin tunnel by J. Ransom Clark (Emeritus) Muskingum College, New Concord, Ohio.

A Berlin Tunnel Cryptographic Factoid

In a letter to "The Times" on Blechley Park from July 1980, a reader reveals a factoid about the Berlin Tunnel that I had not see before: US Navy Bombes (electro-mechanical computer-like machines built to recover Enigma keys) "were still being used in 1956 to solve East German police traffic in case it revealed inteligence about the CIA's Berlin Tunnel."

For further reading: "The Last Bombe Run, 1955" by Colin Burke.

Potsdam Mission: Memoir of a U.S. Army Intelligence Officer in Communist East Germany
by James R. Holbrook, Cork Hill Press (November 30, 2005), 304 pages.

A memoir by a Veteran of the Cold War with whom I am proud to have served. It traces his career from private to LTC, with stops in West Point, DLI, Field Station Berlin and USMLM. A lucid, historical account. The chapter on life at Field Station Berlin is often overlooked in reviews. It takes a look at FSB coverage of the Soviet shootdown of an Air Force RB-66 reconaissance aircraft in 1964. Highly recommended.

My Life as a Spy
by Leslie Woodhead

The memoir of a famous British documentary filmmaker who began his adult life as a RAF Russian linguist in Berlin. It covers language school, his work in Berlin and what happened to his classmates when they grew up. Highly recommended for Monterey Marys, both 'ground pounders' and 'zoomies.'

Spies Beneath Berlin
by David Stafford, Publisher: Overlook Hardcover (January 27, 2003), 222 pages.

A readable historical account of the Operation GOLD (PBJOINTLY) Berlin Spy Tunnel. Begins with an overview of the Operation SILVER spy tunnel in Vienna. No spy-tunnel aficionado should be without one.

Battleground Berlin: CIA vs. KGB in the Cold War
by David E. Murphy, Sergei A. Kondrashev, George Bailey, Publisher: Yale University Press, 584 pages, illustrated.

In insider's look at CIA and KGB operations in Berlin in the 1950s, with an extensive chapter on the Berlin Spy Tunnel. Essential reading.

Outpost Berlin: The History of the American Military Forces in Berlin, 1945-1994
by Henrik Bering, Publisher: Edition Q (July 1995), 266 pages.

A readable journalistic history of the American military in Berlin from 1945 to 1994.

Berlin and the American Military: A Cold War Chronicle
by Robert P. Grathwol, Donita Moorhus, Publisher: NYU Press, 200 pages.

Berlin Then and Now
by Nick Gay, Publisher: Thunder Bay Press, 180 pages.

An album (11.3 x 9.7 inches) of photographs of Berlin before and after World War II.

Potsdam Mission: Memoir of a U.S. Army Intelligence Officer in Communist East Germany by James R. Holbrook, Cork Hill Press (November 30, 2005), 304 pages.

My Life as a Spy by Leslie Woodhead

Spies Beneath Berlin by David Stafford, Publisher: Overlook Hardcover (January 27, 2003), 222 pages.

Battleground Berlin: CIA vs. KGB in the Cold War by David E. Murphy, Sergei A. Kondrashev, George Bailey, Publisher: Yale University Press, 584 pages, illustrated.

Outpost Berlin: The History of the American Military Forces in Berlin, 1945-1994 by Henrik Bering, Publisher: Edition Q (July 1995), 266 pages.

Berlin and the American Military: A Cold War Chronicle by Robert P. Grathwol, Donita Moorhus, Publisher: NYU Press, 200 pages.