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...also Frau Edit von Coler. She lived at the Athene Palace, but never gave people more than a glimpse as she whisked across the lobby or drove down the Calea Victoriei in her "long grey Mercedes." Rumor said that she was Himmler's sister and a modern Mata Hari. Says the Countess Waldeck: "Mata Hari and her sisters were dumbbells in an era when bare skin was supposed to make generals lose their heads. . . . [Frau von Coler] was not Hitler's spy, but a Hitler propagandist. . . . And to make friends and influence people," adds the Countess authoritatively...
...days before Christmas, in a chill grey dawn, a German firing squad lined up on the grounds of France's fort, Vincennes. Here the French had executed famed spies Mata Hari and Bolo Pasha in World War I. But the German guns barked at no enemy spies. Executed were four German officers (two colonels, a major, one of undesignated rank). Since Dec. 1 the Germans had found it necessary to shoot 100 of their soldiers for mutiny. It would take a long time for disaffection to weaken the mighty German Army, but the spirit was spreading...
...espionage as in war, floundered along in traditional forms: spying was essentially military, to be practised by professionals. Unfortunately they had to cope with an enemy which, having revolutionized warfare, revolutionized espionage too. While France's time-honored Deuxième Bureau hopefully trained its second-string Mata Haris, and while Prime Ministers Chamberlain and Baldwin blandly ignored as "exaggerated" (substitute Hitler's "improbable") the catastrophic findings of Britain's brilliant 64, the Germans set in motion "the greatest espionage organization that had ever existed." Typically, Goebbels compiled a blacklist of all the worn-out tricks which...
...woodpile), men like Ribbentrop took care of individual, strategic and semiconscious traitors. Ribbentrop snake-charmed the Cliveden set, with the help of Princess Stephanie Hohenlohe-Waldenbourg-Schillingsfurst, who modestly confessed before a British court that it was she who made Munich possible. Canaris, who had worked with Mata Hari in Spain, founded Personnel Department...
Gunther has a long section on the rights & wrongs and possible solutions for the U.S.Argentine beef problem. He also discusses such things as why Buenos Aires busses are called mata gent es (man-killers) and their drivers, asesinos (assassins); why Argentina has two Presidents (Roberto Marcelino Ortiz, Dr. Ramon Castillo); why Buenos Aires has two of the world's best newspapers (La Prensa and La Nation); what Argentines think about World War II; what they are doing about their "powerful and dangerous" Fifth Column; why they say: "When the United States talks about bases it is like stamping...