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...these were subordinate to the Liaison Staff of which Hess was chairman. Its members included Goebbels, Ribbentrop, Rosenberg, Bohle, Otto Abetz, Ley. There was also that "laboratory for the science of conquest," The Institute of Geopolitics, whose 1,000-odd researchers supplied it with "a series of X-ray pictures of all the countries of the world...
...Ernst Wilhelm Bohle at 31 undertook to execute Hess's idea that everyone can and must spy. By 1937 he had the services of 70,000 to 100,000 sailors on German ships and of some 3,000.000 German "housemaids, grocery clerks, beauty-parlor operators, nurses, chauffeurs, opera singers, bookkeepers," who lived abroad. Their work: In weekly reports, the answering of "hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands" of questions: questions not only military and economic, but intimately worming forth the subtlest anthropological details of civilian psychology, habit, morale. This information was screened for its gold-dust in the consulates...
...counter-espionage on a national basis. One is a tribute to those "unknown soldiers," the private citizens of Occupied Europe who are collaborating with British spies and British bombers in a little total espionage of their own. One is the most pleasing version yet of the causes of the Hess Flight and the Russian...
Riess's story of the Hess Flight, which he gives not as theory but as fact: Months before, 64 agents began filtering into Germany letters signed (it seemed) by members of that pro-Hitler, super-Cliveden Set, The Link. Their urgent gist: Linksmen awaited only a Sign, a Great Gesture on Germany's part, to overthrow a wobbling Churchill, betray England, end England's war. The surest conceivable gesture, they suggested, would be to open war on Russia...
...Hess nibbled, flew to Madrid to check up, swallowed great lumps of bait prepared for him there; at length, to B4's complete astonishment, came to Britain in person. After his capture, but behind Churchill's back (so far as Hess knew), he was visited by Ivone Augustine Kirkpatrick who had -supposedly-written him many of the letters. Kirkpatrick then went to Dublin, with a letter from Hess, where he met with members of the German Embassy...