Rick Spence

And the agreement basically is that the army will support Ebert's government. if Ebert supports the army. And particularly that means the continuation of the officer corps and the general staff in one form or another. So a deal is made. And that, of course, is what will eventually help defeat the Spartacist uprising.

The German intelligence landscape in the First World War is obscure in many ways. There are lots of things that are going on. Germany has a military intelligence service called Abteilung or Section 3B. That's just plain military intelligence.

The German intelligence landscape in the First World War is obscure in many ways. There are lots of things that are going on. Germany has a military intelligence service called Abteilung or Section 3B. That's just plain military intelligence.

The German intelligence landscape in the First World War is obscure in many ways. There are lots of things that are going on. Germany has a military intelligence service called Abteilung or Section 3B. That's just plain military intelligence.

They're constantly trying to collect military information before the war about the weaponry and plans of the enemies and then about what the operational plans were during the war. It doesn't really go much beyond that, though. The German Foreign Office runs a kind of political intelligence service.

They're constantly trying to collect military information before the war about the weaponry and plans of the enemies and then about what the operational plans were during the war. It doesn't really go much beyond that, though. The German Foreign Office runs a kind of political intelligence service.

They're constantly trying to collect military information before the war about the weaponry and plans of the enemies and then about what the operational plans were during the war. It doesn't really go much beyond that, though. The German Foreign Office runs a kind of political intelligence service.

And that's the one which is much more involved in things like subsidizing subversion in Russia, which is one of the things that the Germans sign on to fairly early. little diversion here. In 1915, there is a Russian revolutionary who's lived much of his life in Germany who goes by the code name of Parvus. And he essentially comes to the Germans in Constantinople, interesting enough, in Turkey.

And that's the one which is much more involved in things like subsidizing subversion in Russia, which is one of the things that the Germans sign on to fairly early. little diversion here. In 1915, there is a Russian revolutionary who's lived much of his life in Germany who goes by the code name of Parvus. And he essentially comes to the Germans in Constantinople, interesting enough, in Turkey.

And that's the one which is much more involved in things like subsidizing subversion in Russia, which is one of the things that the Germans sign on to fairly early. little diversion here. In 1915, there is a Russian revolutionary who's lived much of his life in Germany who goes by the code name of Parvus. And he essentially comes to the Germans in Constantinople, interesting enough, in Turkey.

He's hanging around there the same times as Botendorf is there, which I find curious. So Parvus, or Alexander Hellpand, to give his actual name, He goes, look, there's a lot of revolutionaries in Russia and there's a lot of mistrust with the regime. We think that the war will increase the contradictions in Russian society.

He's hanging around there the same times as Botendorf is there, which I find curious. So Parvus, or Alexander Hellpand, to give his actual name, He goes, look, there's a lot of revolutionaries in Russia and there's a lot of mistrust with the regime. We think that the war will increase the contradictions in Russian society.

He's hanging around there the same times as Botendorf is there, which I find curious. So Parvus, or Alexander Hellpand, to give his actual name, He goes, look, there's a lot of revolutionaries in Russia and there's a lot of mistrust with the regime. We think that the war will increase the contradictions in Russian society.

And if you give me a lot of marks, I can finance this revolutionary activity. And through subversion, I can take Russia out of the war. oh, the Germans are facing a two-front war. That sounds great. We'll use money in order to... But notice what they're doing.

And if you give me a lot of marks, I can finance this revolutionary activity. And through subversion, I can take Russia out of the war. oh, the Germans are facing a two-front war. That sounds great. We'll use money in order to... But notice what they're doing.

And if you give me a lot of marks, I can finance this revolutionary activity. And through subversion, I can take Russia out of the war. oh, the Germans are facing a two-front war. That sounds great. We'll use money in order to... But notice what they're doing.

The German general staff, a very conservative organization, not a bunch of revolutionaries, are going to finance revolution in an opposing country. They are going to finance revolutionary subversion to take Russia out of the war, which basically... So that gives you another idea as to what the German military is willing to do.

The German general staff, a very conservative organization, not a bunch of revolutionaries, are going to finance revolution in an opposing country. They are going to finance revolutionary subversion to take Russia out of the war, which basically... So that gives you another idea as to what the German military is willing to do.

The German general staff, a very conservative organization, not a bunch of revolutionaries, are going to finance revolution in an opposing country. They are going to finance revolutionary subversion to take Russia out of the war, which basically... So that gives you another idea as to what the German military is willing to do.

They're not revolutionaries, but they'll pay revolutionaries to subvert another regime. Now you've got the problem is that The revolutionary regime that your money helped bring to power is now threatening to extend into your country. So the whole question for the army and for others in Germany in 1919 is how to keep Germany from going Bolshevik, from in a sense being hoist by your own petard.