The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-02-25

Az least mats what the spies
say. They also say that It's rot
ten work and easy to get and
you can have Il.
MEETS SPIES SOCIALLY
In Switzerland and elsewhere
In Europe I have met quite q
few spies socially. Some have
even been introduced as spies,
which may have meant that
they were not spies at all or that
they really were spies and were
just trying to disarm me. I
wouldn't know.
Conservative estimates by
military attaches and other In
dividuals whose activities throw
them into contact with spies
place the number Of spies In
Europe at something around
100, 900. That includes spies in
the business for pay, patriotism
and, play whose nuggets OF
knowledge are sometimes worth
q hearing.
There are others. All the
women Of Europe's streets and
cafes say they're spies now. It
sounds better and frequently in
terestS customers.
IT'S YOUTH
Practically every male or
female non combatant in Europe
Of the teen age has an unsup-
pressed desire to be . spy. It's
youth. Quite Z few otherwise
sane and normal adults play at
spying, too. It's entertaining.
The 40; 900, however, don't
think much Of their jobs. They
ray there's-n6 more big money
ia espionage these days and GER
tainly the salaries Of the ones
that are caught substantive
their claim. -
Few can make q living 1t Il
and have to 60 In for something
on the side like blaclkma1l, burg
larry or even, In some extreme
cases, honest work.
Those OF the group who are
In the business for patriotism's
sake especially complain that
nobody listens TO them-not
even the governments for whom
they work.
Serious spies.I have met who
work 1t It for fun say the same
thing, adding that there's less
respect for the thrilling occupa-
ton Of espionage In this war
than In the last - particularly
on the part Of the people who
catch them.
CHOPS OFT HEADS
Switzerland doesn't shoot
spies yet, but Il sends them TO
do such degrading (for Z high
class spy) jobs q cracking rocks
In prison gangs or moving hay
In Alpine pastures.
Germany chops off spies
heads with m axe or 4 gull
lotine. Italy executes them with
. shot In the back that breaks
their spine. Britain hangs or
shoots them. And their life isn't
worth . plugged psuso In the
Balkans.
Officials Of several embas-
sies and. legations have told me
The same thing about the in
creased number Of spies IN this
war % compared to the last,
when postwar estimates ct the
total st 10000. not counting
sxcanIcxs DETAIL
They nv modern intslilgence
services have sacrificed detail
for general coverags and have
cut salaries for fairly good
agents IN order 10 get large
numbers o. Just average agents.
They my intelligence services
now have only Z few, agents
whose word they count on -
sufficient In itself, but many
raid aeepte whose information
u pooled 70 Be checked and
double cfecked.
Britain, In the opinion Of
most 1spi6naes experts includ-
Ing some Axis representatives !
have mel has "a ENORMOUS ad-
vantage h the war of military
and economic intelligence on the
continsnt-but rs N adv1ntage
gained mainly b. defeat and BY
AKis conquest. f9
The story eoes, and ! have
never beard Il dsnied, that the
British secret se9vice md milf
tafy iite11iConce divisions pre-
poro1 IT. ~ inxuGicq @, H. low
coudkios nd IT, vti0ch defeot,
even 0housh few q thoa dream
e Il would cone q poso. By
Scatterlne civn6n agents
throuGh eue 49, terTi1ogto1.
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Int ~ 80 aount WHO had
ben p)noo0 ~ peoooeut1bn for
tio jnvuo1ou. - - - = still
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