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Espionage
"I am not what I am!" -Iago in Othello In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies." -Winston Churchill, speaking to Franklin D. Roosevelt and Josef Stalin. The Second World War was a many-faceted struggle. Battle lines were drawn on many fronts, but combat was not resolved exclusively by the G.I. on the black sands of Iwo Jima or in the bitter cold of the Ardennes. A sordid array of characters was fighting the war in such little-known places as Korcula and Saigon, and traipsing through supposedly secure areas such as U.S. Army arsenals and British RAF bases. The German Abwehr, SD and SS, British MI-5, MI-6 and the ultra-secret X-Troop, Soviet Red Orchestra, and the fledgling American OSS were all spy organizations that played pivotal roles in the balances of information and power during the second great World War. In 1938 when British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain returned to London from a Munich meeting with German Chancellor Adolf Hitler and triumphantly declared "peace for our time," the chiefs of secret intelligence agencies all over Europe knew better. Espionage was well under way, and the following year the German Wehrmacht opened the War by crushing Poland. Nazi Germany had two agencies already spying: the Abwehr, a branch of the OKW, or Armed Forces High Command, engaged in keeping watch on such information as the military preparedness of foreign nations; and the SD, or Sicherheitsdienst, the secret intelligence and security service of the Nazi party, responsible for both internal surveillance and espionage abroad. England also had two agencies for military intelligence, MI-5 and MI-6. In theory, MI-5 dealt with domestic security and MI-6 with foreign espionage. In practice, the concerns of the two agencies frequently overlapped, as did the respective concerns and agendas of Germany's Abwehr and the SD. O... Please login to view comments from other users.
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