26th Of June 1928How America Entered The WarFlynn Writes About The Diplomatic Secret Service  By F W Elven Correspondent Of The München LatestNews  Cincinnati Mid JuneWilliam J Flynn has published a part of his War Memoirs in the weekly Liberty which is much read hereDuring the war Flynn was the Head Of The United States Secret Service The Service encompasses the wholecountry and is brilliantly organised In peacetime it primarily provides for the personal security of the PresidentIts attention is enjoyed by whatever else in the national capital is in need of protection or thinks it needs so Itkeeps under surveillance all doubtful elements somehow suspected of connections with political tendencieshostile to the government and its spokesmen During the war its principal task was to keep an eye on those whomore or less loudly had made themselves noticeable in opposition to the war or who merely were suspected ofnot being in agreement with the Wilsonian war policy Germans also enjoyed its special care and at that timemany fell into the traps which had been laid everywhere by the Federal Secret ServiceFrom Flynns memoirs however we learn that the Secret Service had been assigned an important mission evenbefore our entry into the war In the year 1915 a full two years before the declaration of war the most efficienttelephone expert was summoned to Washington and assigned the task of arranging the leading telephone wiresto the German and Austrian embassies in such a way that Secret Service officials could tap every conversationfrom any source that was held between the ambassadors and their personnel as well as every conversationemanating from the embassy offices A room was set up with which all the wires were linked in such aningenious way that not even a single conversation could be missed Service men sat in this room day and nightdictating the overheard conversations to the stenographers seated beside them Every night the head of the SecretService Bureau that is the author of the article in Liberty received a stenographic report of all the conversationsheld in the preceding twenty four hours so that on the very same evening he was able to communicateeverything important to the State Department and to President WilsonLet us bear in mind the time this installation was created at the beginning of the year 1915 that is at the timewhen the United States still lived in peace with Germany and AustriaHungary and Wilson never tired of givingassurances that he harboured no hostile intentions against Germany It was also the time when the GermanAmbassador in Washington Count Bernstorff neglected no opportunity to show due appreciation of Wilsonsfriendly disposition and feelings for Germany and the German Folk It was also the time when Wilson gave hisconfidant Baruch instructions to begin the gradual mobilisation of industry for war also the time in which itbecame increasingly obvious as the American historian Harry Elmer Barnes also sets forth in his book On TheOrigins Of The Great War that Wilson was firmly decided to enter the war and postponed the execution of hisbellicose plans only because public opinion first had to be won over for these plansFlynns memoirs must finally remove the ground from the foolish chatter that Wilson was pushed into the waragainst his will by German submarine warfare The tapping of the telephone wires leading to the Germanembassy took place with his knowledge We also learn this from Flynns memoirs The author adds that thematerial thus gathered against Germany contributed considerably to the eventual break This can prove only thatthis put means in Wilsons hands to win public opinion for the war long planned by him And in fact thismaterial was wholly and ideally suited for it The Memoirs confirm to the fullest extent what unfortunately muststill be said that Germany at that time was represented in Washington in a downright incredibly incompetentand incredibly unworthy way If we hear that in one passage Flynn writes that the stenographic reports preparedfor him daily contained enough material to keep a divorce lawyer busy for months on end then we get a generalidea of what went onThe Secret Service maintained women agents in Washington and New York whose job it was to sound out themembers of the German Embassy Bernstorff included whenever anything important happened One of thesewoman agents kept a better class apartment in Washington in which the gentlemen met their ladies and whereoccasionally even Secretary Of State Lansing dropped in to hear what was new On New Years Day 1916when the

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26th Of June 1928How America Entered The WarFlynn Writes About The Diplomatic Secret Service  By F W Elven Correspondent Of The München LatestNews  Cincinnati Mid JuneWilliam J Flynn has published a part of his War Memoirs in the weekly Liberty which is much read hereDuring the war Flynn was the Head Of The United States Secret Service The Service encompasses the wholecountry and is brilliantly organised In peacetime it primarily provides for the personal security of the PresidentIts attention is enjoyed by whatever else in the national capital is in need of protection or thinks it needs so Itkeeps under surveillance all doubtful elements somehow suspected of connections with political tendencieshostile to the government and its spokesmen During the war its principal task was to keep an eye on those whomore or less loudly had made themselves noticeable in opposition to the war or who merely were suspected ofnot being in agreement with the Wilsonian war policy Germans also enjoyed its special care and at that timemany fell into the traps which had been laid everywhere by the Federal Secret ServiceFrom Flynns memoirs however we learn that the Secret Service had been assigned an important mission evenbefore our entry into the war In the year 1915 a full two years before the declaration of war the most efficienttelephone expert was summoned to Washington and assigned the task of arranging the leading telephone wiresto the German and Austrian embassies in such a way that Secret Service officials could tap every conversationfrom any source that was held between the ambassadors and their personnel as well as every conversationemanating from the embassy offices A room was set up with which all the wires were linked in such aningenious way that not even a single conversation could be missed Service men sat in this room day and nightdictating the overheard conversations to the stenographers seated beside them Every night the head of the SecretService Bureau that is the author of the article in Liberty received a stenographic report of all the conversationsheld in the preceding twenty four hours so that on the very same evening he was able to communicateeverything important to the State Department and to President WilsonLet us bear in mind the time this installation was created at the beginning of the year 1915 that is at the timewhen the United States still lived in peace with Germany and AustriaHungary and Wilson never tired of givingassurances that he harboured no hostile intentions against Germany It was also the time when the GermanAmbassador in Washington Count Bernstorff neglected no opportunity to show due appreciation of Wilsonsfriendly disposition and feelings for Germany and the German Folk It was also the time when Wilson gave hisconfidant Baruch instructions to begin the gradual mobilisation of industry for war also the time in which itbecame increasingly obvious as the American historian Harry Elmer Barnes also sets forth in his book On TheOrigins Of The Great War that Wilson was firmly decided to enter the war and postponed the execution of hisbellicose plans only because public opinion first had to be won over for these plansFlynns memoirs must finally remove the ground from the foolish chatter that Wilson was pushed into the waragainst his will by German submarine warfare The tapping of the telephone wires leading to the Germanembassy took place with his knowledge We also learn this from Flynns memoirs The author adds that thematerial thus gathered against Germany contributed considerably to the eventual break This can prove only thatthis put means in Wilsons hands to win public opinion for the war long planned by him And in fact thismaterial was wholly and ideally suited for it The Memoirs confirm to the fullest extent what unfortunately muststill be said that Germany at that time was represented in Washington in a downright incredibly incompetentand incredibly unworthy way If we hear that in one passage Flynn writes that the stenographic reports preparedfor him daily contained enough material to keep a divorce lawyer busy for months on end then we get a generalidea of what went onThe Secret Service maintained women agents in Washington and New York whose job it was to sound out themembers of the German Embassy Bernstorff included whenever anything important happened One of thesewoman agents kept a better class apartment in Washington in which the gentlemen met their ladies and whereoccasionally even Secretary Of State Lansing dropped in to hear what was new On New Years Day 1916when the

