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The Solitary Spy - A Political Prisoner in Cold War Berlin (Hardcover)
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The Solitary Spy - A Political Prisoner in Cold War Berlin (Hardcover)
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Of the 2.3 million National Servicemen conscripted during the Cold
War, 4,200 attended the secret Joint Services School for Linguists,
tasked with supplying much-needed Russian speakers to the three
services. The majority were in RAF uniform, as the Warsaw Pact saw
air forces become the greatest danger to the West. After training,
they were sent to the front lines in Germany and elsewhere to snoop
on Russian aircraft in real time. Posted to RAF Gatow in Berlin,
ideally placed for signals interception, Douglas Boyd came to know
Hitler's devastated former capital, divided as it was into Soviet,
French, US and British sectors. Pulling no punches, he describes
the SIGINT work, his subsequent arrest by armed Soviet soldiers one
night on the border, and how he was locked up without trial in
solitary confinement in a Stasi prison. The Solitary Spy is a
unique account of the terrifying experience of incarceration and
interrogation in an East German political prison, from which Boyd
eventually escaped one step ahead of the KGB.
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