Former Cold War spies return to their derelict Berlin listening station

BERLIN (Reuters) -There is little to indicate that the Teufelsberg, or Devil’s Mountain, a thickly forested clump rising above western Berlin, is a pile of wartime rubble built on the entombed remains of a Nazi military college.

The mound, just 80 metres high, soars over Germany’s flat capital, offering views far around, such as of the television tower to the east, which during the Cold War was the symbol of occupied and divided Berlin’s eastern half.

It was the Teufelsberg’s commanding height, that commended it to U.S. spies when they were looking for a place from which to spy on their Communist rivals in Soviet-controlled East Germany and beyond.

Over the decades, with their British and French allies who occupied West Berlin, they threw up antennas and radars to spy on signals from Ea