(10) Slade Papers III, microfilm MRF 39/3, National Maritime Museum , 
Greenwich .
 (11) Recounted by Nicholas P. Hiley, 'The Failure of British Espionage against 
Germany , 1907 – 1914', Historical Journal, vol. 26, no.4 (1976), pp. 867 – 89.
 (12) The Times, 4 November 1911 .
 (13) The Times, 29 October 1914 .
 (14) Hiley, 'Failure of British Espionage', p. 887.
 (15) Walther Nicolai, The German Secret Service (London: Stanley Paul, 1924), 
pp. 52 – 3.
 (16) The statement was printed in The Times, 9 October 1914 .
 (17) Hiley, 'Failure of British Espionage', p. 888.


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 (1) Skardon in interview with author, 1967.
 (2) Nigel West, MI6. British Secret Intelligence Service Operations 1909 – 
1945 (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1983), p. 7.
 (3) Alley in interview with Page, Leitch and Knightley, 1967.
 (4) 'The Profession of Intelligence', part I. ВВС Radio 4, 5 March 1980 .
 (5) Nicolai, German Secret Service, p. 18.
 (6) PRO, WO/106/45/ERE 9077, p. 15.
 (7) Herbert von Bose, ' Verdun , Galizien, Somme , Isonzo… Oder Wo?', in Hans 
Henning Freiherr Grote (ed.), Vorsicht! Feind hort mit! (Berlin, Neufeld und 
Henius, 1930), pp. 73 – 4.
 (8) R. J. Jeffreys-Jones, American Espionage (New York: The Free Press, 1977), 
p. 49.
 (9) Fletcher Pratt, 'How Not to Run a Spy System', Harper's, September 1947, p.
 243.
 (10) William R. Corson, The Armies of Ignorance (New York: The Dial Press, 
1977), pp. 591 – 2.
 (11) See, for example. Henry Landau, The Enemy Within (New York: Putnam's, 
1937).
 (12) Nicolai, German Secret Service, p. 109.
 (13) Corson, Armies of Ignorance, p. 65.
 (14) S. T. Felstead, German Spies at Bay (London: Hutchinson, 1920), p. 20.
 (15) PRO, WO/32/4898/ERE 9077.
 (16) ibid., Minute sheet 12D, 8 November 1920 .
 (17) ibid., Minute sheet 13, 12 November 1920 .
 (18) ibid., Petition from Greite in Parkhurst Prison, 12 September 1921 .
 (19) Felstead, German Spies, p. 135.
 (20) W. H. H. Waters, Secret and Confidential (London: John Murray, 1926), p. 
36.
 (21) Ulrich Trumpener, 'War Premeditated?', Central European History, vol. 9, 
no. 1 (March 1976), p. 67.
 (22) Army Quarterly, vol. 18, no. 2 (July 1929), p. 287.
 (23) See Maurice Paleologue, 'Un prelude a 1'invasion de Belgique', Revue des 
deux mondes, vol. 11 (October 1932).
 (24) Nicolai, German Secret Service, p. 186.
 (25) See Patrick Beesly, Very Special Intelligence (London: Sphere, 1978), pp. 
21 – 6.
 (26) Sam Waagenaar, The Murder of Mata Hari (London: Barker, 1964), pp. 251 – 
2
 (27) ibid., p. 250.
 (28) Letter from Major von Roepell to Major General Gempp, 24 November 1941 , 
in ND collection. Military Archives, Freiburg , West Germany .
 (29) World's Pictorial News, 25 April 1926 , p. 3.
 (30) Nicolai, German Secret Service, pp. 287 – 8.
 (31) A. Swetschin, 'The Strategy', in Max Ronge (ed.), Kriegs und Industrie 
Spionage (Vienna: Amalthea, 1930), p. 86.


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 (1) 'The Profession of Intelligence', part 1, BBC Radio 4, 5 March 1980.
 (2) House of Lords Record Office, Lloyd George MSS, F/9/2/16, 'Reduction of 
Estimates for Secret Services', 19 March 1920.
 (3) Kerby in interview with Page, Leitch and Knightley, 1967.
 (4) Lloyd George MSS, F/9/2/16, Churchill to Lloyd George, Bonar Law, First 
Lord of the Admiralty. Lord Curzon, and Chancellor of the Exchequer, 19 March 
1920.
 (5) Lloyd George MSS, F/9/2/16, 'Reduction of Estimates for Secret Services', 
p. 2(vii).
 (6) 'The Profession of Intelligence', part 2, BBC Radio 4, 12 March 1980.
 (7) Lloyd George MSS, F/33/2/3, Long to Lloyd George, 9 January 1919.
 (8) Sidney Reilly, The Adventures of Sidney Reilly (London: Elkin Mathews & 
Marrot, 1931), pp. 28, 44.
 (9) ibid., p. 43.
 (10) ibid. Mrs Reilly tells her story in the second half of Reilly's 
unfinished book.