Spies and Secret Service The story of espionage, its main systems and chief exponents

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No Sex Mystery about D'Eon—The Chevalier's Great Courage—His Trip to Russia in Woman's Dress—Empress rewards him—Spies for Louis XV.—Proves an Apt Soldier—Minister in London—Is...

Mongrel Breed of Spy—Marcus Crassus and his Spies—Birth of André—Geneva University—His Precociousness in Love Affairs—Buys a Commission in the Royal Fusiliers—Learns his Trade i...

Little or no Espionage in Britain—Beginnings of Secret Service—Henry VII. and the Monastic Estates—The Intelligencer in Elizabeth's Time—Statesmen employ his Services—Some Expen...

Schulmeister a Master Spy—His Value to Napoleon—A Claimant to Lofty Origin—Birth and Early Life—Smuggling as a Trade—Meets Savary—His Capture of Duc d'Enghien—Is presented to Na...

M'Parlan a North-of-Ireland Man—The Rush to Pennsylvania Coal-fields—The Irish Adventurers—Growth of New Ireland—Erin a Land of Political Unrest—A Nursery of Political Agitation...

Piggott and Le Caron—How the Major adopted his Alias—Birth and Bringing-up—Puritanical Surroundings—Works in Paris—Volunteers in American Civil War—His Religion—Fenian Movement—...

German Strategic Railways—Their Military _Personnel_ and Character—Stieber's Railway Spies in France—His Foreign Agents of Domestic Unrest—England also "covered"—Stieberism and...

Bismarck's Faith in Stieber—Red Eagle for the Sleuth—Stieber's Preparation to _invade_ France—His Requisitions of Female Agents—An Attempted Assassination—Bismarck's Far-sighted...

Germans are Natural Spies—The Principles of Frederick the Great—_Matinées du Roi de Prusse_—Royal Views on War, Religion, Policy, Justice—Essential Militarism of Social Germany—...

Spies and the Bible—The Jew as Spy—Polyænus and his Work—Mithridates his own Spy—Frontinus and _Stratagems_—Ruses of Lelius—Tarquin's Son—Military "Psychologising"—Alexander's B...

Nathan Hale's Fanaticism—Compared with André—Puritanism of Hale's Family and Education—At Yale University—His Splendid Appearance—A Schoolmaster—Battle of Lexington—Hale wins a...

Steinhauer in Stieber's Chair—His Work at Headquarters—Scare Policies—Elme Caro quoted—The Zeppelin Programme—Hermann Turr's Revelations—Windell the "valet"—"Number Seventy, Ber...

Berlin and Polyænus—What the Spy has to find out—Lanoir's Tales in Point—Buying a Subaltern—£8000 to a Lieutenant—Berlin pays £10,000 for False Information—A Pole _does_ the Bur...

The Pragmatical Age—Spies always with us—Prehistoric Ages—Antiquity—Jurists and Spying—Morin's Views—Napoleon and Spies—Modern Spy's Characteristics—The Aristocrat as Spy—Teuton...

Few Spies in America—Political Spies active—Charles I. and his Spies—Louis XVI. and De Kalb—Washington and his Spies—James Rivington's Work—Secession Dreams in 1812—The Mexican...

The Long Arm of British Diplomacy—Its fateful World Rôle—Spying on Bonaparte—Romance of a Captain's Wife—Madame Fourès and Bonaparte—Getting rid of a Husband—John H. Barnett, Br...

Frenchmen Unwilling Spies—Paris Centre of vast Police Network of Spies—Colonel Henry's Fate—The Prevalence of the _Dossier_—Fame and the _Dossier_—The _Agent Provocateur_—Divisi...

Impotence of German Espionage—Berlin's Sleuths and Diplomats equally bad—Training Secret-Service Men—Insistence on Facts—Naval Agents and their Knowledge—The Fatuity of German A...