Chapter Thirty-Four: What's not Remembered Cannot be ForgottenThe East Berlin Stasi desk heard of the proposed demolition of the Wall through an intercepted NSA signal four days before it started to be pulled down. Trubnikov had been given a heads-up about the demolition two days before them. A spokesman I contacted at the BBC from India said it was his telephone call to Die Welt newspaper that alerted the western press to its forthcoming demise. Trubnikov told me he was ordered by the high command at the KGB to leak that information, but no reason was given.
Dickie Blythe-Smith was retired when the Wall came down. Or rather a more precise way of describing Dickie's condition of unemployment would be to say: his remuneration, derived from his pension when his salary ceased to be the main
