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Espionage isn't what it used to be. Glamour is out, and business mon are preferred. The changing character of this war-time ‘profession' is here discussed by a well-known American war correspondent. guess. Some come back with false information hung around their necks by hosts who ful- ly expect them to report to the enemy.
The Mata Haris of this war have taken a back seat behind plain JJhn Businessman, ace espionage agent of 1941.
For it takes more than good looks and intelli- gence to cross frontiers in Europe to-day. One busi- nessman with no charm at all, but with business abroad, is worth far more to European intelligence services than a bevy of beauties.
Which is why counter espionage officials of neutral governments say they believe Britain now. has a big edge on Germany in military informa- tion.
Britain's trade empire is paying dividends with perhaps the world's most active, and underpaid, spies - business- men, manufacturers, techn- cians and industrialists of many countries whose prewar income was based
on trade with British firms.
They Travel
War or no war; those men travel. War needs their in- telligence and war machines are made of what they have to scil. No matter how tight A frontier may be "sealed," the man who has what the government behind that fron- tier wants will always be able to pass.
Eventually he comes back out again. Then he may go directly to a British (or Ger- man) friend-perhaps a diplo- mat, perhaps a businessman, perhaps just a social acquain- tance.
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He tells of industrial bottle- necks in war production in the country factory striving to widen that bottleneck. Per- haps he's surprised and per- haps he isn't when he reads in his paper a few days later that the same factory has been bombed.
All belligerents use these commercial spies to the fullest possible extent. Some even start off their business trips with special missions, a fact which their hoats frequently
Here's an example of how they work-fictitious, but in a pattern familiar to commer- cial attaches and government agents,
Blindspot on the bombing map, we'll say, is the town of Rolni, 40 miles east of the junction of the Dutch and
Belgian frontiers. The Ger
man industrial directory tells the British what factorica are in or near the town, what they are equipped to make and how big they are. It does not tell them what they're now making, nor does it say what troops are in Rolm.
Directory A Fumble
The German industrial direc tory was somebody's fumble in Berlin and a boon to the R.A.F. It comes out every year and the 1940, edition appeared as usual, giving, with typical German thoroughness, even the new locations to which certain key factories had been transferred, Bombs followed. The industrial direc- tory was not published this
year.
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On with the example. Lon- don sends word to all commer- cial agents, businessmen and British official representatives aboard that they want to know what is going on in Rolm where there's a glass com- pany, a steel mill, a firm mak-. ing frames for racing bicycles- and a soap factory.
A British commercial agent in Madrid may be a resident Englishman selling business insurance to Spanish com- panies. He has a wide ac- quaintance and he has means of meeting the Spanish dis- tributing agents for the Rolm Glass Company's hotel table glasses.
Perhaps he meets them himself, perhaps he delegates the job to a Spanish hotel owner who may be viewed. by the distributors as a customer. Perhaps the distributors have visited Rolm recently and if not, then certainly a Rolm salesman has been calling. Germany needs foreign ex- change.
The salesman, while ex- plaining the delay in filling orders, may happen to mention that the factory's warehouses have been used by the military to store military equipment or to house troops.
Danube barge makers in Yugoslavia get their steel from Germany. The heads of the firm visit Germany on buying expeditions and talk to the
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Swiss chemists from idle Swiss factories are sent to Germany by their firms to study German methods of making soap out of coal or other materials in order keep the Swiss. factory busy filling German orders.
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commercial man who outlined "It sounds like luck," said a
the picture, "but it isn't. Business crosses frontiers and with it goes espionage.”
He estimated that at least half the information handled by military intelligence in Lon- don came from commerela} soures or through commercial channels.
Information In Invoices
Commerce provides a way to get the information out even when there
are no in- dividuals crossing the fron- tiers. Mails go through and the strictest censorship can- not hope to cope with the vast quantity of commercial data contained in the mail.
An order, an invoice, even the goods themselves may be used to convey military in- formation with or without the knowledge of the shipper. The arrival of 10 cases of camera lenses in Switzerland address- ed to an innocent Swiss dealer might tell a British customer of the shop that 10 German air squadrons were based in a Netherlands coast port.
War-Time Weddings
WAR-TIME weddings are not without their humorous side. An R.A.F. officer was being married in a fash
fashionable church, and a nervous young subaltern was acting as usher. Noticing
very dignified
lady entering the effurch, the sub- altern hurried towards her and in- quired, "Friend of the bride- groom?"
"Certainly not," was the fright reply. "I'm the bride's mother,"
The war-time wedding was just over, and the organist was playing the first bars of the Wedding March.
"What's that?" asked a Indy guest, turning to her husband.
"Oh," he repiled, "that's the beginning of 'Stormy Weather,""
naval officer was getting married, and was trying to re- hearse the ceremony with his best
mun.
"And you're sure I have to be on the right side of Ethel?" he asked anxiously.
"Yes," said the best man, "and on the right side of her mother, too."
The time come for him to give the ring to the bride, but for the life of him he couldn't remember what he had to say.
The minister
Vith this ring, prompted him.
The bridegroom's face cleared and he gave a sigh of relief. "With this ring," he said volubly, “we give a written guarantee, remind- ing the customer that the purchase price will willingly be refunded in full if the article is not entirely as represented."
The war-time wedding knot had been well and truly fled. The soldier bridegroom turned to his bride's father and said, "Well, I'm
gind that's over."
The bride's father laughed. "Over! My dear boy, it's only just started."
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· An RA.M.C, offleer hovered at the door of a church where a mill- tary wedding was taking place.
"Are you a friend of the brido or the bridegroom?" inquired, the
usher.
"No."
A soldier, who in civil life is a • aback, and asked timidly, "Than
Jeweller's assistant, was very norv-
ous at his wedding, :
The Usher was rather, taken
what interest have you in the wed- ding???
"I'm the defeated candidate," was the grim reply.
A war-time wedding had been arranged to take place in a country church, and a stalwart sergeant and n pretty country girl presented themselves at the altor steps.
The ceremony started and pro- ceeded smoothly until the minister asked the sergeant if he would take the girl for his wife. The sergeant remarked, "Excuse me, air, but I'm not the bridegroom.”
"Then where on earth is the bridegroom?" asked the startled minister.
"Ho's outside the door, sir," ex-
plained the sergeant: "lie's only a corporal, and he's too shy to come in."
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A Scottish war-time wedding was in full swing, and the bride- groom was in the Home Guard, One guest remarked to the best man, "The bride's no verra bonnie."
"Aye, I ken," agreed the best man, "But whit's far mais important is that she's a vegetarian and toks nac sugar in ')
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