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The Bowery Boys and the Black Tom Explosion
Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
The German Secret Service in America, 1914-1918
By 19 14, by this time, when this fireworks plant exploded, these were already being targeted. Here's an excerpt from a german note book that outlined the code phrases that operatives would use when they were talking on the telephone in new york city. A street number in manhattan named over the telephone means that the meeting will take place five blocks further up town than the street mentioned. Pennsylvania railroad station means grand central depot. Hotel ansonia means the cafe at the hotel manhattan basement. Hotel belmont means at the bar in paps in columbus circle. And it went on and on and on. That one place would actually mean another place. But perhaps the centre
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