"German espionage has done the best job any spy organization ever did for a nation bent on conquest. The man who spun most this world-wide web and now sits at its center certainly is the world's master spy. He is perhaps the ablest that has ever afflicted the world. Yet he is quite unknown. This is by his own choice and his own careful contrivance. Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, titular chief of military intelligence for the German Supreme General Staff, the Obercommando der Wehrmacht, and actually much more than that, is quite a little man who wears a uniform only when he has to, lives in a middle-class Berlin suburb, keeps his name out of newspapers, and official communiques... Canaris arrived at his eminence by climbing a dirty, devious and bloody trail. He has served Germany well and Canaris better."
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