Germany’s Master Spy Of First War
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LONDON, Mon. (11 a.m.). Germany's master spy of the 1914-18 war, Captain Franz von Rintelen, was found unconscious today on a South Kensington station, and died in hospital shortly afterwards. He was 72. Rinfelen’s name was known throughout the world during the First World War and he.had written several books. He had lived in Britain for 20 years and was naturalised. He was interned at the beginning of the last war as a former German citizen. Rintelen, who posed in America under the name of E. Gibbons, was responsible with lii3 spy ring, for destroying or damaging 32 British ships. Right until his death today he remained a suave, fastidiously-dressed character, who might have stepped from the pages of cloak and dagger fiction.
He was known to his neighbours as i "night bird” who went out and came n during late hours.
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Northern Advocate, 31 May 1949, Page 5
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