Word: riess
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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HIGH STAKES-Curt Riess-Putnam...
...Author Riess gives useful public warning of the fact that the closing of the German consulates does only so much good. With its above-and-below-ground dual flexibility, the machine is capable of swift adjustment. The weekly data can be handled, now, through the German Embassy and through the diplomatic and consular offices of Italy, Japan, France, Spain; it can also be detoured through Central and South America...
Kickback. Author Riess sketches the no less intricate devices which hold South America, Mexico, the Near East, before the Nazi fluoroscope. He tells of the not too satisfactory efforts to collaborate with the Japanese, who invented total espionage, but who lack judgment and are also stingy with information of value...
...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...
...Riess's story on Hess is improbable enough. So is much else in his book. So, not long ago, was Hitler...