SCHOOLING OF SPIES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 July 1942, Page 4

SCHOOLING OF SPIES

REORGANISED IN GERMANY FOLLOWING ON AMERICAN ROUND-UPS. ELABORATE TRAINING. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, July 21. Following the rounding-up of German spies and Fifth Columnists in the United States and Latin America, the Germans have been forced to begin a complete reorganisation of their intelligence and espionage system under Ihe Supreme Command, says the “Daily Telegraph.” The German spy system has been transferred to Hitler's headquarters, where the agents' activities are synchronised with military movements. All spies are now trained in special centres in Germany. The candidates must have a high standard of fitness and a “clean" political record, and speak without an accent the language of the country to which they are posted. The candidate is first instructed by former leaders of quisling groups, members of German diplomatic missions and fifth columnists who have been allowed to settle in Germany. The candidate is next posted to the Intelligence Corps and there to a pioneer unit where he is instructed in sabotage, microphotography, and the coding and transmission of messages, ranging from radio to the handling of carrier-pigeons and making invisible ink. The next step is his transfer to a naval.or air group for training in map-reading, parachuting and landing from a U-boat. The spies generally are no longer sent direct to the countries where they will operate, but are first sent to distribution centres in Turkey and Spain.