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US spy pub in Hamburg
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Most people know the #Reeperbahn in Hamburg only at night. Numerous bars hide a lot of bizarre stories. A pub served as an important spy place against Poland for a U.S. intelligence agency. The pub even operated to the service 1/7
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Most people know the #Reeperbahn in Hamburg only at night. Numerous bars hide a lot of bizarre stories. A pub served as an important spy place against Poland for a U.S. intelligence agency. The pub even operated to the service 1/7
Hamburg's St. Pauli district attracts many figures - tourists, homeless people, love-seekers and sailors. And it is precisely these that various Western intelligence services are targeting during the Cold War. 2/7
Especially seamen behind the Iron Curtain are important sources of information and possible candidates for espionage in the home country. 1955, COMNAVER (US Naval Forces Germany) wrote a report on a pub: "The tavern served as a contact house for Polish agents in Hamburg" 3/7
