Signal Degradation at Checkpoint Charlie
The message arrived at 0347 hours, Berlin local time, on a Wednesday in late October 1962. The teletype machine in the basement office at 14 Keithstrasse began its mechanical stutter — the sound of metal letters striking paper through a carbon ribbon, ancient technology by any measure, but still the fastest way to move words across the Iron Curtain in a city that had been split down the middle...
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