GREAT SPY SYNDICATE.
Information Sold to Different Clients HEADQUARTERS MOVED FROM CAPITAL TO CAPITAL. Received Saturday, 1 a.m, LONDON, Dec. 22. The Daily Telegraph’s Paris correspondent says it is believed that the spy organisation had at least 40 agencies in various parts Europe, supreme control being exercised at a nomadic headquarters, moving from capital to capital. The information it gained was not monopolised by a single Power, but was distributed to different clients, including Germany and Russia. The strangest figure in the drama is Lydia Stapl, who was born in Russia She is at home in ten languages and thus became associated with Martiij the interpreter, who is credited with 'speaking 68 languages and dialects. His erudition 3 brought him in contact with Stahl, who persuaded Martin to tamper with documents relating to naval history.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 23 December 1933, Page 8
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135GREAT SPY SYNDICATE. Horowhenua Chronicle, 23 December 1933, Page 8
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