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
#thread
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
COMNAVER report: "According to information received from various HAMBURG sub-sources the GASTSTAETTE KOEPLIN there is allegedly a restaurant being operated as a cover for a US Intelligence agency". But the Polish Intelligence Service also sits in the bar 4/7
Which US intelligence agency is behind the „Gaststätte Köplin“ remains unclear. In old Hamburg telephone directories you can find the address of the establishment. It is a corner house #Friedrichstraße 2/ #Davidstraße. Today it is called Pils-Börse - very famous 5/7
The Navy report criticized the intelligence mess at the time: "Nobody really knows who works for whom and agains whom" 6/7
Details and other counterintelligence operations can be found in a 736-page INSCOM dossier. It covers a period between the late 1940s and the 1970s."Poland Intelligence Services Personalities and Sources" bit.ly/3025qjH Thanks to @Cryptome_org for the Foia request ;) 7/7
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