Spies and Secret Service The story of espionage, its main systems and chief exponents
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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_—Divisions of French Secret Service—Esterhazy's Seventeen _Poursuivants_—M. Bertillon's Bureau—Lower Orders of Spies—Forced Espionage—Newspaper and Bankers' Spies—The French War Office well informed—Renan's Views