Spying Issue: Cold War Among Berlin, Washington, Moscow and Markus R.

Spying Issue: Cold War Among Berlin, Washington, Moscow and Markus R.

For this year's Independence Day bash the U.S. embassy in Germany picked the historic Tempelhof airport where an allied air lift 66 years ago kept Berlin's citizens from starving during Soviet leader Josef Stalin's blockade.

After a year scarred by the revelations of mass U.S. spying on Germans, the Americans had hoped to toast U.S.-German friendship with rock music, ribs, burgers and beer.

But that morning news had broken that Germany's Federal Prosecutor had arrested Markus R., a 31-year old employee of Germany's foreign intelligence agency (BND), on suspicion of spying for the Americans........