{"id":39381,"date":"2014-01-20T09:10:55","date_gmt":"2014-01-20T14:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=39381"},"modified":"2014-01-20T09:10:55","modified_gmt":"2014-01-20T14:10:55","slug":"cold-war-cables-declassified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=39381","title":{"rendered":"Cold War cables declassified"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Washington Times<\/a> reports that several thousand cables between US government agencies in regards to incident reports of events in Berlin have been declassified for historians’ review;<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat really struck me the most was the day-to-day nature of the confrontation in Berlin,\u201d said Donald P. Steury, a historian at the CIA. \u201cEvery day there was something happening. Minor incidents that could\u2019ve escalated into something significant.\u201d<\/p>\n

The cables offer a kaleidoscopic picture of life in the divided city: negotiations over East German workers smuggling a bouquet of flowers across the border to present to President Kennedy, pending Secret Service inspection, during his 1963 visit. The \u201ctense, hushed\u201d crowd that \u201csobbed openly\u201d as the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. preached in an East Berlin church a year later. East German displeasure after young rioters damaged five S-Bahn trains following the 1965 Rolling Stones concert in West Berlin (one State Department cable described the group as \u201cjazz\u201d and \u201cEnglish beat-singers\u201d). The behind-the-scenes Soviet protest to Secretary of State Henry Kissinger after a Nikon camera containing aerial photos of Soviet army units tumbled out of a foreign plane over East Germany.<\/p>\n

Documents also include a big-picture strategy that could involve a nuclear confrontation, escape attempts using a homemade submarine of dubious quality uncovered in West Berlin, low-level conflicts such as consternation over communist flags on East German locomotives pulling U.S. military trains and U.S. negotiations with the Soviets on the propriety of curtains in military liaison vehicles.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It all seems so inconsequential now. You can read my own experiences, not in Berlin, but along the intra-German border in Bavaria at this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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