Summary of Hervie Haufler's The Spies Who Never Were

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 The secret service had to build upon slim prewar beginnings. One reliable agent was Arthur George Owens, who was working for a high-technology firm with business interests in Germany. He was an electrical engineer, chemist, and inventor, and his abilities in battery technology opened doors for him on the Continent.
#2 The German intelligence agency, the Abwehr, recruited two Norwegian lads, Helge Moe and Tor Glad, and trained them to be saboteurs. They succeeded in such missions as destroying a food storage dump and an electricity generating station.
#3 The Allies had a very effective network of spies in place, and they used them to gather information on the Germans. The Germans, on the other hand, were using spies that were actually working for the British, who were in control of the entire network.
#4 The British spy Dusko Popov was courted by the Germans in Belgrade, but he slipped away to check with the British embassy. They told him to go along with the Germans while actually working for them. Popov did go to Britain as a well-off Yugoslav businessman.

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 26 mars 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781669366539
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Hervie Haufler's The Spies Who Never Were
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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The secret service had to build upon slim prewar beginnings. One reliable agent was Arthur George Owens, who was working for a high-technology firm with business interests in Germany. He was an electrical engineer, chemist, and inventor, and his abilities in battery technology opened doors for him on the Continent.

#2

The German intelligence agency, the Abwehr, recruited two Norwegian lads, Helge Moe and Tor Glad, and trained them to be saboteurs. They succeeded in such missions as destroying a food storage dump and an electricity generating station.

#3

The Allies had a very effective network of spies in place, and they used them to gather information on the Germans. The Germans, on the other hand, were using spies that were actually working for the British, who were in control of the entire network.

#4

The British spy Dusko Popov was courted by the Germans in Belgrade, but he slipped away to check with the British embassy. They told him to go along with the Germans while actually working for them. Popov did go to Britain as a well-off Yugoslav businessman.

#5

The Abwehr, the German intelligence agency, attempted to land agents in Britain in 1940, but all were captured or gave themselves up. The exception was Wulf Schmidt, who developed into one of the most trusted and useful of the double agents.

#6

The British were able to capture the entire German espionage system, and they wasted no time in gloating over the irony of having an enemy’s entire espionage system under their control.
Insights from Chapter 2

#1

The British authorities set up a group to coordinate the interests of MI5 and MI6 in managing the agents. They chose a canny Scotsman to head up B1A, Colonel Thomas A. Robertson, and an Oxford don to head up the Twenty Committee, John Cecil Masterman.

#2

The British Committee on XX, which was in charge of passing information to the Germans, had a difficult task of balancing providing accurate information with misleading information. They mostly passed accurate information, but sometimes had to scrap scripts because of a turndown from above.

#3

The British had a very lacey structure that was constantly being threatened by one blow, one egregious error, or one blown agent. The Committee served as a clearinghouse where the work of the various agents could be compared and kept consistent.

#4

The British created double agents, who were supposed to be enticing to the Germans. However, they found that the Germans were more than willing to push a second-rate article of their own. The only requirement was that the German spymaster had discovered the agent.

#5

The British double-cross system was designed to catch German spies. It was also used to catch new spies when they appeared, gain knowledge of the German Secret Service, obtain information about the code and cipher work of the German Service, and deceive the Germans about British plans and intentions.
Insights from Chapter 3

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