Read the excerpt from The Dark Game True Spy Stories from

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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 reassigned 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 O 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