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...work concentrated mainly on U.S. targets in West Germany and in West Berlin. It was only at a relatively late stage that we began to establish contacts within the U.S. Our initial efforts were to send in so-called sleepers, or undercover agents. Unfortunately, the first one was uncovered, and he revealed everything he knew. This was a major setback. After the German Democratic Republic opened its embassies in Washington and at the United Nations, we established contacts, but most of the material we managed to obtain by these sources was legal or semilegal. It was not top-secret information...
...1950s and 1960s we did have a very good source in the American mission in West Berlin -- a German in the political section. So I don't want to present a picture of us being completely harmless. But except for this, I believe I do not merit praise for our work...
Members of two campus music groups will cross the remains of the crumbling Berlin Wall this summer and perform in the fledgling democracies of Eastern Europe...
After his readings, Soyinka answered questions. from the audience. Soyinka discussed his essay, entitled, "Beyond the Berlin Wall...
...talking about the whole issue of power and freedom," Soyinka said. "People were shot trying to cross [the Berlin] wall and [then] it came down, opening up so many possibilities, asking so many questions...