Read the excerpt from The Dark Game: True Spy Stories from Invisible Ink to CIA Moles.
There are theories as to why the Soviets did not
"discover" the tunnel sooner. One likely answer is that
they waited until Blake was rdassigned by M16 to London
in order to protect him from being found out. Since Blake
knew about the tunnel from the first day of its planning
and was in Berlin while the tunnel was being dug, fingers
would soon point to him as a Soviet mole. The KGB did
not want to lose Blake. Some historians feel that the
KGB waited because they actually wanted the
Americans to hear their transmissions, as a way to let it
be known that Russia had no intention of invading
Germany and going to war with the U. S.
On balance, however, some valuable information was
gathered from the tapped conversations. The U. S.
learned, for example, a great deal about the Soviet and
Which sentence best states the controlling idea of the
passage?
O Blake was a ruthless spy who ruined the Allied efforts
to tap Soviet wires beneath the ground in Berlin.
The Soviets knew about the Allied plan to tap wires
and spy, but they did not stop the effort.
O The United States learned valuable information from
the wire taps that allowed them to defeat the Soviets.
O The wire taps were never a secret, but they helped
the United States gain military intelligence.
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