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FIeld Station Berlin went by quite a number of different names,
the abbreviation FSB, also Teufelsberg, Devil's Mountain, T-berg and by the alpha numeric designation of its comm center: USM 620-Kilo.
And it was also known as 'The Hill' and this was taken as the pen-name for an author who actually served with the Army Security Agency for 3 years back in the mid-1970s
at Field Station Berlin.
He was then an intelligence officer for over 20 years and served throughout the world and these novels that he writes, even though they
are works of fiction, they offer great insight into what life was actually like on the base, not just the operational side but also
the general mood throughout Berlin and also the light-heartedness and the kind
of romances that were happening at the time. But this particular novel features an operative who returns to Berlin
to find his Stasi file because the Stasi actually had informants within Teufelsberg and they had created a file on every single
employee that worked at Field Station Berlin. So in the novel he
goes back (to Berlin) and using computer technology, which is only available now in 2013,
they are able to recreate his Stasi file, piece it back together to determine who was actually
spying on the US and British operatives at Field Station Berlin so it's an absolutely fascinating read.