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Battleground Berlin: CIA vs. KGB in the Cold War. By David E. Murphy, Sergei A. Kondrashev, and George Bailey. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997. xxv, 530 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0300-07233-3.)
From the blockade of 1948-1949 to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, Berlin was the focal point of the Cold War in Europe and a major battleground of Western and Eastern intelligence services. With the end of the Cold War, the veterans of the clandestine wars have come out of the ditches and begun to share their stories. The main authors of this remarkable collaborative project are David E. Murphy, a former chief of the ciA'S (Central Intelligence Agency) Berlin Operation Base (BOB), and Sergei A. Kondrashev, a retired lieutenant general of the KGB (committee for state security)...