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noir_lord on June 30, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: The German Tank Problem

We also caught every single German spy and turned them all (iirc it was all) but didn’t know we’d got them all till after the wars conclusion.

British intelligence was pretty impressive during WWII.

neaden on July 1, 2019 [–]

To be fair, some of the German spies were pretty bad at their jobs. Josef Jakobs stands out as a man who was just not a good spy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_Jakobs

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