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@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ Harvey was appointed chief of the CIA's [[Berlin]] Base in 1952. Berlin was the
His signature achievement in Berlin was [[Operation Gold]] - the construction of a 1,476-foot tunnel from the American sector into the Soviet zone, connecting to and tapping the Soviet Army's main telephone cables in East Berlin. Planning for the tunnel began in 1953 in collaboration with British [[MI6]]; construction was completed in 1955; the tap ran for eleven months before Soviet forces "discovered" it on April 22, 1956.
The Soviet discovery was stage-managed. Kim Philby had been briefed on the tunnel plan during his assignment as MI6 liaison in Washington in 1951-1953 and had informed Moscow. The [[KGB]] allowed the tunnel to operate for eleven months, apparently believing that a premature discovery would expose Philby or other sources inside Western intelligence. The tunnel nonetheless produced enormous volumes of intelligence before its exposure. Harvey's exposure of Philby's guilt was thus coupled with the revelation that Philby had burned Harvey's own most significant operation - a personal and professional irony that reinforced Harvey's already pronounced hostility toward British intelligence.[^1]
The Soviet discovery was stage-managed. [[George Blake]], an MI6 officer who attended the joint Anglo-American planning conference in 1951-1952 at which the tunnel was discussed, was simultaneously a [[KGB]] agent; he had informed Moscow of the plan before construction began. The KGB allowed the tunnel to operate for eleven months rather than immediately disclosing it, calculating that a premature exposure would reveal Blake as a source. The tunnel produced enormous intelligence before its exposure - but had been compromised from the moment it was conceived. Harvey was not informed of Blake's identity until Blake's 1961 arrest in London; the revelation that the Soviet penetration had burned his signature operation permanently embittered him toward British intelligence.[^1]
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