A Soviet turbojet engine captured in Berlin provided a window into Moscow's reach, but the strategic consequences of that find were scrubbed from the record before the files reached the archive.
For years, a synthetic anti-communist front in Berlin operated as a payroll project for Langley, masking active sabotage as 'administrative harassment' while witting allies watched.
Agents operated under the guise of the Far Eastern Fur Trading Co. Ltd. for years, using notional employment to hide their identities in Security Service files that tracked Soviet fronts.
84 people were killed or wounded and 700 arrested as Soviet divisions occupied East German cities to stop what Moscow called a foreign operation by fascist-like elements.