My Adventures as a German Secret Service Agent [1917]

My Adventures as a German Secret Service Agent [1917]

Author: Capt. Horst von der Golz

Year: 1917

Digitised by Google Books from the collection at the University of Minnesota https://books.google.com/books?id=wqjikpCBklQC Additional title page wording “Formerly Major in the Mexican Constitutional Army. Sometime Confidential Aide to Captain von Papen, Recalled Military Attache to the Imperial German Embassy at Washington, German Secret Agent” In spite of the title, pages 7-8 state “I was not a spy; nor was I a secret service agent. I was, rather, a secret diplomatic agent. Let me add that there is a nice distinction between the three. A secret diplomatic agent is a man who directs spies, who studies their reports, who pieces together various bits of information, and who, when he has the fabric complete, personally makes his report to the highest authority or carries that particular plan to its desired conclusion. His work and his status are of various sorts. Unlike the spy, he is a user, not a getter, of information. He is a free lance, responsible only to the Foreign Office; a plotter; an unofficial intermediary in many negotiations; and frequently he differs from an accredited diplomatic representative, only in that his activities and his office are essentially secret”. https: