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Title: My adventures as a German secret agent

Author: Horst von der Goltz

Release date: April 21, 2025 [eBook #75931]

Language: English

Original publication: New York: R. M. McBride & Company, 1917

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MY ADVENTURES AS A
GERMAN SECRET AGENT

The Bridgeman H. Taylor passport upon which von der Goltz returned to Germany and later went to England. In the upper right hand corner is the visé of the American Embassy at Berlin.

My Adventures
AS A
German Secret Agent

BY
CAPT. HORST VON DER GOLTZ
Formerly Major in the Mexican Constitutional Army.
Sometime Confidential Aide to Captain von Papen,
Recalled Military Attaché to the Imperial
German Embassy at Washington,
German Secret Agent.

ILLUSTRATED

NEW YORK
ROBERT M. McBRIDE & COMPANY
1917

Copyright, 1917
by
Robert M. McBride & Company

Published, 1917

“One must at times separate a gentleman and a diplomat from his official acts performed under orders from his home government, otherwise great confusion and injustice will occur. Some governments have a little way of telling those who represent them abroad ... to get such and such a thing done, and done it must be. Nor would those high Government officials at home care often to hear painful details of the successful execution of many such orders which are given.”

from
“The Strangling of Persia,” by W. Morgan Shuster.

TO THE
UNITED STATES OF GERMANY—WHENEVER
THEY MAY COME TO BE—I
DEDICATE THIS BOOK AND MY HOPES.