Spies and Secret Service The story of espionage, its main systems and chief exponents
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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 Ambitions—Practice _versus_ Theory—A Bismarck Touch—"Dirty Little Lieutenants"—An American War Correspondent in the Field