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apr 1, 1956 - Discovery of Operation Gold

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In order to protect their mole George Blake,-the spy who learned of the tunnel beneath Berlin-the Soviets staged its accidental discovery. However the operation had already collected over 40,000 hours of Soviet conversations.

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apr 1, 1956
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~ 69 years ago