Spies of the Kaiser: German Covert Operations in Great Britain During the First World War Era

Contents......Page 8
List of Illustrations......Page 10
Acknowledgements......Page 11
List of Abbreviations and Espionage Terms......Page 13
Domestic change and the global balance of power......Page 16
Fears of invasion......Page 19
Studies on intelligence......Page 21
The navy\'s organizational framework for intelligence......Page 28
Agents and recruitment......Page 32
Invasion scares......Page 36
The campaign for a Secret Service Bureau......Page 42
The early years of British counter-espionage......Page 50
3 German Pre-War Espionage in Great Britain......Page 57
Early attempts at intelligence gathering......Page 59
The case of Siegfried Helm......Page 63
The Agadir crisis......Page 66
Max Schultz......Page 69
Heinrich Grosse......Page 71
Armgaard Karl Graves......Page 75
Karl Hentschel and George Parrott......Page 78
Adolf Frederick Schroeder......Page 82
Implications of Germany\'s pre-war espionage in Great Britain......Page 84
4 The Outbreak of the First World War......Page 89
The \'Ernst ring\'......Page 92
German espionage centres in Belgium and the Netherlands......Page 95
Intelligence gathering......Page 104
Social aspects of German espionage......Page 109
The life and death of Carl Hans Lody......Page 112
German spies and British counter-espionage......Page 120
German spies and British propaganda......Page 124
Subversion?......Page 132
Sabotage......Page 136
Biological warfare......Page 146
7 The Decline of German Naval Intelligence, 1917–1919......Page 154
The last major German intelligence operation in Great Britain......Page 155
The last German spies......Page 158
Conclusion......Page 162
Appendix 1 Command Structure of German Naval Intelligence, 1911–1914......Page 167
Appendix 2 Statistical Evidence on German Espionage and British Counter-Espionage during the First World War......Page 168
Appendix 3 Synopsis of German Naval Agents in the First World War......Page 169
Notes and References......Page 185
Bibliography......Page 222
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