Der Tiergarten

This story tells about the life and experiences of a young man, our narrator, who grew up
in a small-town in America. A biography of this townie (as we will call him) is not intended in this
story. He will be treated by the author as a fictional character, Roger Williams, although this
young man did experience most events in the story. The parts of the story which are fictional are
interwoven with actual events in order to connect events within the sequence of the story and in
the order that they occurred. Hopefully, the fictional parts will be indistinguishable from the
other.
The young man, his service associates and a few fictional cohorts, were the participants
in this most remarkable story about conditions of battle within the course of the Cold War and the
allied western nations intelligence services operations that were centered in Berlin, West
Germany.
In the small town home of this man, he was separated from U.S. national politics and
most world events by distances, community-attitudes and his own immaturity. With education,
travel and some happenstance he grew into a person of the world, zur Weit kommen (to the world
he comes.)
The first part of this story tells about his youth in small town America while World War
II was ending and there was a realization, nationally, that a Cold War was raging. This story
shows that small town America was not as far from the Cold War the front-line and world
events as the town=s residents might have realized. In retrospect, the world actually came to small