Editing Demon: Berlin (section)

====Life in the City of Spies====
Berlin, especially West Berlin, can be a little claustrophobic.  The city is not that big and is now closed off physically, and has a high density of surveillance from every major intelligence organization of Eastern and Western Europe, especially the Americans, the British, the Russian, and the East Germans.  The West Germans tend to keep clear of the place since they are not actually in charge of anything.  On the other hand, the Berlins are a noisy, anarchistic lot and all those competing spy networks create a buzz of suspicious activity which makes conspiracy easier in some ways.  Sit on a park bench by the memorial park for an hour, and you'll see a dozen people having odd encounters and conversations.  "Oh, are those bananas fresh?" "I hear the weather is good for flying kites."  "Have you seen a Schnauzer with a gray muzzle?"  Impossible to tell if that sad old man with a beret or the young woman with an LP record of Sibelius on her lap are just resting, or offering recognition signals to the world. The two men in shirt sleeves smoking and looking out the window at the deserted street corner at 2 AM - well, they're probably on the job.  But whose?