The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-02-27
Motu Harris Take Beck Seat
to Business Men as Agents
Lsasseress Dssstiss Still prepe Hetsl
Divsns, osls essepsan Officers

DivsRs. 0sle euro|
(HAitse's Metz: Charlss 3.
relts IT,, ~ returned ise0
Bern, SWitseslanA, whsre -
haA hoea statleoela q tAo
seosugoaAs @ Europoan een-
nunieat1sas, eeaelD6ee teany
: NJ theee-payt .soEiee tyr ~
sDeslal news seRvies anA TINE
DAILY u ONlT01 -
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~ CuA1LES 3. FOLTZ, u.
NEW YORK, FEB. IT.
WANTED: MEN AND WON
I'm LACKING PERSONALITY,
OOlGPH. INAQIN ALTON.
CHARM AND AMBITION. FOR
DANGEROUS Work AT LIT
TILE PAY. INTELLIGENT PER
SONS NEED NOT APPLY"
That want Cd Fever appeared
In Europe and e probably never
will, but It's just about what
would appear II European mill
tary intelligence services adver-
tised for the spies they need
now.
"Many Z smart spy does good
work for his government. but
most such spies were ct their
jobs long before the war began
or at least In the first few
months Of the war.
Big espionage Jobs and impor-
tAnt secret missions 60 10 these
veterans. Tha most successful
new operatives, officials say, are
those with little imagination
and . low 70. who simply re-
port what they hear or see.
Men who do the hiring and
firing for intelligence services
on the continent say intelligent
paid spies eventually find its
hard 10 earn . living and resort
to one Of two tricks-padding
their reports with imaginative
inside stuff or working for the
other ride. 49,
CEN0O1SuIP BEST fs
The best field for new agents
II III minor censorship positions
In enemy country. Impartial
Germany's ace spy In England
was Jules Silber who, by . COM
bination Of official dullness and
HE own good luck sat IN . Lon
don office throughout the world
war firmly entrenched In . key
censorship post.
Both Britain and Germany
nssd thousands Of censors.
Among tlpm5 psrhaps, ar asfesw
van(1u6lo oconts SstGh roth he
Information ,sAd the means Of
communication d their finger
tips. ~
The great mass Of field spies,
however, are either not bright
or downright dangero", to their
eInploysrA Az
* dull witted Swiss youth ar
rested for espionage early In the
war. supplied important infor-
nation % the Germans for some
time until he was called TO do
military service. Then his use
fulneGs came 70 IN end because
he thought his letters to he
German consulate could be car
ried post free La the military
mail.
Soldiers letters so fres' only
10 relatives In the Swiss army.
So when the youth marked his
personal note 70 The 0erman
conSulate ''post free Soldief's
mail' Il was examined and the
contents sent him 70 Jail.
Prize double agent story y
the tale a . Moravian tried be-
fore . military court n Zurich.
His name was Trebov and his
distinguished appearance won
him the title Of The Baron"
NkYDKD MONEY BADLY
The baron led Z comfortable
cafe life IN vienna where his
small family fortune, invested
In Z Jewish firm, vanished when
the Naxis nbeorbed Austria. The
baron needed money, 90 he
started work @ On agent for the
Vienna branch Of the German
''offies for The prevention Of e.
pionage."
Dy september. 1850, the bar
On rated hieh - . German agent
IN vienna snA shout ths same
date h unet . Jewish horse-
doalar whO he'd abon6o0ed biz
calling - ~ II vienn@ for .
Dritish aeo0t In DudoDosk The
pair bscazme crest ffiendB and .
p6rtuefslaip W. born.
Soon tn 9x.hoeDe dealer W.
also ca III pay ron q IL Ger
man office for the prsvsntion Of
sspionage, while tle baron was
increasing HE income with
moaaey from TIE British agent In
Dudape6t.
M new parlnsrship estab-
Mahed hsadqnnrtsrs q Zurich.
Thest thsy ns6de ~ tfeat mis-
! taIt9 q uA6eeratint Z ~ Swiss.
>svho know mach q spies and
spyins. my sent z teaegrsm