Word: cracksmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Aloisi as his naval aide-de-camp. Austria's spy net was known to have its spider on Swiss soil at Zurich in the person of a certain Captain Mayer. On the night of Feb. 24, 1917 Spy Master Mayer's safe was rifled by expert Italian cracksmen. For the next three days the Italian frontier was closed to keep Austrian spies from escaping from Italy. They were caught and shot in batches on the evidence provided by the spy data stolen in Zurich. Since Italians have always given credit to Baron Aloisi for this exploit, they relied...
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