The NSA Spy From Devil's Mountain | True Life Spy Stories

Book your place with Tradecraft Travel on the Dead Drops & Double Agents tour - a spy tour of Berlin, Leipzig, Prague, and Vienna with former CIA Chief of Station John Sipher and Tradecraft Travel founder Jack Buchanan. Get the full briefing at https://tradecrafttravel.com/philip Ways to support the channel: Become a Member:    / @philipthompson   Buy Me a Coffee: ☕ https://bmc.link/philipthompson Donate via PayPal: 💸 paypal.me/PhilipT284 Listen to my spy stories on the True Life Spy Stories podcast! 🎙️https://creators.spotify.com/pod/show... In 1982, a U.S. Army sergeant stationed at one of the most sensitive American listening posts in Europe walked past the Soviet consulate in West Berlin and dropped a letter through its mail slot. By that evening he was a recruited spy. For the next six years, James W. Hall III sold classified secrets to both the Soviet KGB and the East German Stasi simultaneously, secrets that an NSA official later estimated caused three billion dollars in damage to American and NATO intelligence. He was paid roughly three hundred thousand dollars for it. He spent the money on a house he couldn't afford, a truck paid for in cash, and flying lessons. This is the story of how a self-recruited mole inside Field Station Berlin, the NSA's Cold War listening post on Devil's Mountain, very nearly tipped the balance of power in Europe, and how a chance shoplifting arrest thousands of miles away eventually brought him down. 📚 Sources & Further Reading (affiliate link): 📕 Traitors Among Us: Inside the Spy Catchers World by Stuart A. Herrington - https://amzn.to/4uVZXac 🎙️ Also available as a podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and all major platforms. #philipthompson #truelifespystories #espionage