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Total Espionage was first published shortly before Pearl Harbor and is fresh in its style, retaining immediacy unpolluted by the knowledge of subsequent events. It tells how the whole apparatus of the Nazi state was geared towards war by its systematic gathering of information and dissemination of disinformation. The author,âŠ
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This crucial book was originally published by Putnamâs, New York, in 1941.Â
Riess admitted in his autobiography (which exists only in German) that the book was largely a compilation of material from various sources, much of it handed to him personally by Robert Vansittart, the head of British Intelligence at the time. Large portions of the book were in fact written by Heinrich Pfeifer, and supplied to British Intelligence, part of it on Pfeiferâs two trips to London, and part passed across via Vansittartâs agent Walker in Lucerne.
Riess was a Jewish refugee from Germany who was trusted by VansittartâŠ
From Robert's list on the inner workings of Nazi Germany.
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