HIS343Y1 : HIS343 Espionage Study Guide.docx
Document Summary
Realisation of growing naval opposition from germany and its own inferiority in terms of land army fuelled british to move toward setting up a professional intelligence service. Mi5 (home section: responsible for domestic intelligence meant neutralizing foreign agents in britain, run by vernon kell, at the outbreak of wwi, 21 german spies were arrested in britain constituted most of the. Provided technical aspects of the german navy: their focus on the german navy reflects britain"s own priorities in the naval arms race distracted them from the german army"s plans. By 1914, intelligence was still a relatively new practice. On the eve of the war, the great powers employed underfunded agencies. Intelligence had very little to offer, had little role in policymaking in the european states. Intelligence was fairly irrelevant: played little role in war plans. Disconnect exist between espionage practices and new technologies relied almost solely on human agents.
