Strange Intelligence: Memoirs of Naval Secret Service
“Any number of amusing stories can be told of that aspect of the work.For example, very shortly after the war began a plausible individual wormed his way into the confidence of a prominent British naval authority and offered him (for a price) plans of the latest German submarines.He produced a printed folding diagram, large enough to occupy a complete spread of a daily newspaper, and closely annotated in German.The authority was rather impressed. It looked like a real find. Fortunately he had at... hand a colleague who knew Germany well. This man was called into consultation. And he pointed out, with as much gravity as he could muster, that the plan was a print produced by a well-known Berlin publisher as an extra illustration to a boys’ magazine, and that it had been sold on the bookstalls in thousands, at a shilling a time, for months before the war. It contained no information of any sort about German submarine construction that could not be found in the most elementary textbooks!That same plausible gentleman, however, scored a minor triumph when he sold to the editor of a certain English review a ridiculous article on the German naval defences.MoreLess
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