Special Relationships, Part 1/3: The Zimmermann Telegram | Historical
True Spies: Espionage | Investigation | Crime | Murder | Detective | Politics
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The Role of the American Ambassador in London, Walter Hines Page
Human relationships are perhaps the most important factor in spycraft. Blinkerhall's relationships with walter hines page and edward bell, two senior american diplomats in london, are the foundation for what comes next. Signals intelligence can only get you so far. What the naval intelligence division needs is an alibi,. a believable means by which they might have come across the zimiman telegram without spying on a neutral foreign power. Once the key is people.
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