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Book details
  • Genre:BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
  • SubGenre:Historical
  • Language:English
  • Pages:244
  • Paperback ISBN:9781667839813

Dit Da

Forest of the Gnarly Root

by Ken Poole

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Overview
This is a story about an historic adventure of spying and sabotage during the building of the Berlin Wall in 1961. The story portrays the early impressions of the Author through the early years of WWII leading to an assignment in Herzogenaurach, Germany as a High Speed Code Interceptor for the Army Security Agency/National Security Agency and the contact with an allied spy ring operating behind the Iron Curtain.
Description
This is a story about an historic adventure of spying and sabotage during the early years of WWII culminating in the sinking of one of Hitler's biggest submarines off the coast of Cape Cod and Martha's Vineyard in the summer of 1944. The story portrays the early impressions of the Author through the years culminating with the enlistment into the U.S. Army Security Agency in 1959. The adventure leads to an assignment in Herzogenaurach, Germany during the building of the Berlin Wall, as a High Speed Morse Code Interceptor and the unusual contact with an Allied spy ring operating in the Soviet territories of East Germany, Czechoslovakia and the Sudetenland. The GI's, who together provided an array of intelligence to the U.S. and Allied Forces during the building of the Berlin Wall managed to signal the alarm of Castro's Cuba and the build up of Soviet forces in the Western Hemisphere.
About the author
Ken Poole is a Registered Architect, Marathon Runner and former Code Interceptor for the US Army Security Agency/National Security Agency during the building of the Berlin Wall, Herzogenaurach, Germany.