Damn!
I ain't THAT old!
I was with Customs from latter 70's - early '80's.
And I thank your Dad for his service.
LOL!
I have a LIFE magazine dated January 26, 1953 with a picture of my dad, who was a 2nd Lt., at the Berlin railroad yard talking with a SFC who was complaining that U.S. Customs may not stop Red-Starred train taking suspected goods from Germany to Czechoslovakia. At that time were was lots of smuggling of steel, machine tools, chemicals and whatever else the Soviets might have needed......
Dad was assigned to escort David Douglas Duncan, a photographer for LIFE, who was doing a photo expose' of the underground world of smuggling from West Berlin to the communist East......
Along with the magazine, I also have two black and white photos of he and Duncan in dad's office chatting and drinking coffee.
As an aside, a close friend and fellow Vietnam era vet was stationed in Berlin back around 1971 - 72. He and a friend made a trip into E. Berlin and smuggled out a family of 4 across Check Point Charlie in the trunk of a specially modified vehicle to accommodate them.....