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Cold War Espionage, East Germany and Berlin with Spybrary host Shane Whaley (Part 2)

Welcome to episode 5 which is part 2 of our Cold War Conversations with Shane Whaley of Spybrary . We talked for some time ,so I have split this interview into two parts. I hope you find this second half as interesting as I did – settle in for more wide ranging and hopefully interesting … Read more

Cold War Espionage, East Germany and Berlin with Spybrary host Shane Whaley (Part 1)

Welcome to episode 4 (part 1) of Cold War Conversations. Today we’re talking about Cold War espionage, East Germany and Berlin with Spybrary podcast host, and Radio GDR podcast founder Shane Whaley. Shane runs the Spybrary podcast at spybrary.com. Their goal is to encourage people to read new spy novels, revisit an old espionage classic and … Read more

Cold War Berlin and Signals Intelligence

Welcome to Episode 2 of Cold War Conversations where we start with a fascinating eyewitness account of Berlin during the Cold War. Michael lived in Berlin as a child of US Airforce personnel in the 1960s and 70s and then subsequently joined the US Airforce himself and worked in Signals Intelligence during the 1980s. … Read more

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