Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-02-13
the wire was not tapped
Great Care Was Used.

Great Care Was Used.
The above is an illustration of the
method employed for giving instruc-
lions, and the same method was used
at times for receiving reports. 1t sug
gests the care which Koenig always
employed, and it gives FEASIBILITY to
quotation attributed to him after DR..
Heinrich F. Albert. counsellor of the
German embassy. lost a portfolio of
| important documents. Said Koenig
We'll, they'll never steal portfolio
from me, for I'll never carry one after
this
| In New York City, whether Koenig
, organized the system or not-and New
York is the heart of the work going on
in America in connection with the Eu-
ropean war-a wonderful system was
developed. Koenig's note books show
| that he divided his work into three
parts namely, guarding representa-
tives of Germany, secret service and
plerwork for the Hamburg American
Line.
There was not hotel in New York
where representatives of the allies
stopped that did not have a corps of
German secret service men and women
I eDlDlONeu I1tIt. L nose ptISOnS uiu
not hesitate to examine letters, listen
at the door or over hear conversations
of the men whom they were watch
ing. One of the walters who attended
the Anglo French commission in this
city last fall was a German spy. who
now is working in club in Singapore.
Telephone girls of Teutonic sympa~
thes We're employed to gather infor-
nation Girls at swltchboards in
hotels worked for Germans, as did
bellhops, porters and window cleaners.
Elevator men in big office buildings
made money by keeping their eyes
open, but it has been surprising how
many American girls and boys have
spurned the opportunity to make
money by sending reports to German
agents.
Spies for Germany nave included
stockholders in big corporations, direc-
tors. confidential employees in indus
/ trial concerns, in banks. steamship
offices, railroad offices and the like.
one of the most puzzling things fac
! ing American authorities was the
manner in which attacks were made
on ships carrying important cargoes
! to the allies. Every effort had been
made to preserve the utmost secrecy
regarding the destination of shipments
both by railroad and by steamship. and
yet invariably a fire was started in
the hold of the ship, a fire was dis
covered or something else happened
to impair the integrity of the ship
ment.
The mystery was not solved until
| Than his
vate secretary made a confession that
cleared all the doubt away. The Ger
mans knew that the manufacturers
were being paid for their product the
moment they placed their goods on
freight cars bound FIR New York and
forwarded the bill of lading. The bills
went to a bank in New York. which on
receipt of the bills of lading imme-
diately sent a draft in payment. 1t
was learned that the letters telling
of the shipment and the destination
were received at a certain bank in
New York which paid the manufac-
turer. 1t further was learned that in
that bank was a clerk who not only
had an opportunity to see those letters
but to take them out of the bank to
be copied by some of Koenigs assis-
tants. It also was learned that the
copies were forwarded to a clearing
house. from which the information
was sent out TO other secret agents
employed by the Germans.
In the search for facts that would
be of value to the German govern
ment. German agents often ran coun-
ter to men whose sympathies were
with the allies The meeting of these
two agents often produced dramatic
clashes, clever plotting and interest
ing intrigues. The much discussed ef-