@ U.S. ‘listening pos?’ in Berlin The wiretappers got their wires crossed By STEFAN HEYM hind hun 22. » ee : a Y Zarenko, Sovie of the Alt-Glienic had been eribe an ¢ n ’ = +ac} bined the tech- the tted this nea nnel with never we that the divertissem them wit das gger — runs trees It] se to- ae d the airport Soviet by the Union many’s new Luft air Hieet. Glienicke cemetery. f you follow the wall of the continue beyond its end act eee come to af Idstones — tual bx the suburk ice For — or so they said when they started construction work in 1954. Actually, station is th t the tapping this alleged radar e. far terminus of unnel whose other directly under- Alt-Gilenicke-- well within German minus lies “ane phe SS) road, the tehury of the Democratic Republic. he road is blocked off now reen-coated People’s Police. te three or four gaping rards of ditch to the left of road, the three big tele- 10ne cables, each as thick as your arm are laid bare. Just an inserted rubber tube Ie out of the blood donor’s ar where his vein tapped, do leaden tubes out of these cables and aown into the earth under- neath the ad, tapping the hundreds of wires that are packaged tightly within the shell‘ of the cables. underneath road is, so-to- mouth of this whole organism. Here the impulses running the distance were detoured. Re- by 432 (we counted hundred and thir- amplifier units, they via the distrib- unit and pushed through ird steel door by means half-dozen lead enclosed The terminus Schoenefed <, the cate } long ty-two) were boosted uto th traversed the 7 “~ cables d-long gullet of the nmunications tuhnel, end- at the stomach — ‘the ter- Blue ‘pyjamas’ outmoded for Chinese = SHEILA LYND LU cotton a . ce Cc inics and a if they were lucky .. centuries have women taken granted ? in China still dress that, but Monica the British novelist, returned from China recently a picture of new ideas rising living standards ter a two-month visit, which, ew most fascina- trousers and bow! of rice, . for how China's these meny working things fox llions Millions at like she sald, was years ago all the women were in that blue ‘pyjama’ uniform,” “ said. “This time I found the women’s movement official- y encouraging every effort to ake an interest in fashion, to ind new styles, and to look as say and charming as possible.” part of this encourage- , for example, Mrs. Felton a fashion show being ¢ ceed in Chungking, which. minus at the U.S. sector end cf the tunnel, the supposed “radar station,” where doubt- lessly 432 magnetophone re- corders took down what was spoken on the 432 calls which the cables along Schoenefeld road could carry simultaneous- ly. There was a crew in that terminus, unsuspecting, doing its routine job until that mem- orable moment during the night of Saturday to Sunday, April 21 to 22, when through the microphone outside the wooden partition sounded the scraping picks and shovels of Seviet soldiers. e Ii is an eerie feeling to stand here, at the very front line of the cold war. At your feet, the tapping cables run; you hear a gurgling noise in the big aluminum pipe of the air conditioning installation; pud- dles of water, from: the rain last night, muddy your shoes. Once you shut off your search- light, the half dozen bulbs burning dimly hardly pene- trate the dark expanse of tun- nej. And you think the whole thing is maudlin and unreal, cut of a Grade-B Hollywood gangster picture. Beyond the sensational fac- tors of the case, a few points are worthy of comment. + The wire-tapping attempt is a violation of the sover- eign rights of the German Democratic Republic.