Take a measure of M*A*S*H, a dollop of Animal House, stir in a bit of Catch-22 and you'll have life at an Army Security Agency (ASA) border site in Germany during the Cold War. These remote signals intelligence listening posts looked down from isolated mountaintops onto communist East Germany and Czechoslovakia and were manned by small detachments of linguists, intelligence analysts, and technicians. Most of these men were reluctant...