TY - BOOK AU - Cocroft,Wayne AU - Schofield,John TI - Archaeology of the Teufelsberg: exploring Western electronic intelligence gathering in Cold War Berlin T2 - Routledge archaeologies of the contemporary world SN - 9780429442629 AV - DD900 .C63 2019eb U1 - 327.120943/15509045 23 PY - 2019/// CY - Abingdon, Oxon, New York, NY PB - Routledge KW - Espionage, British KW - Germany KW - Berlin KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Espionage, American KW - Electronic intelligence KW - Cold War KW - Military archaeology KW - Radomes KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / International KW - bisacsh KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology KW - Teufelsberg (Berlin, Germany) KW - Berlin (Germany) KW - 1945-1990 KW - Antiquities KW - Buildings, structures, etc N1 - Introduction: Berlin becomes the Cold War espionage capital -- Electronic intelligence gathering : beginnings -- The Teufelsberg, history and context -- Archaeological investigation : methods and approaches -- Site description -- Architectural summary and overview -- Closure N2 - "For over fifty years, the white radomes of the Teufelsberg have been one of Berlin's most prominent landmarks. For half of this time the city lay over 100 miles behind an 'Iron Curtain' that divided East from West, and was surrounded by communist East Germany and the densest concentration of Warsaw Pact military forces in Europe. From the vantage point high on the Teufelsberg, British and American personnel constantly monitored the electronic emissions from the surrounding military forces, as well as high-level political intelligence. Today, the Teufelsberg stands as a contemporary and spectacular ruin, representing a significant relic of a lost cyber space of Cold War electronic emissions and espionage. Based on archaeological fieldwork and recently declassified documents this book presents a new history of the Teufelsberg and other Western intelligence gathering sites in Berlin. At a time when intelligence gathering is once more under close scrutiny, when questions are being asked about the intelligence relationship between the US and Germany, and amidst wider debate about the USA's National Security Agency (NSA) intelligence programmes, sites like the Teufelsberg raise questions that appear both important and timely"-- UR - https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780429442629 UR - http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/oclc/forms/terms/vbrl-201703.pdf ER -