Building Blocks of the Balance

I. German-Austrian Treaty, 1879/Triple Alliance, 1882

II. Franco-Russian Alliance, 1894

III. Anglo-French Entente Cordiale, 1904

IV. Anglo-Russian Agreement, 1907

First Morocco Crisis, 1905

I. Bernhard von Bülow

II. Kaiser Wilhelm at Tangier

III. Algeciras Conference, Jan 1906

French Cryptology and Cabinets Noirs

I. Quai d’Orsay

II. Sûreté

III. Rouvier’s indiscretion

British Spy Scares

I. British naval response

A. Two Power Standard

B. HMS Dreadnought, 1906

II. British intelligence response

III. Popular spy scare

A. William LeQueux, the Daily Mail, and “The Invasion of 1910”

IV. Slade’s intelligence network, as DNI

V. Commander Cumming’s (“C”) Foreign Section

A. “Casual Agents”

French HUMINT

I. “Le Vengeur”

II. Schlieffen Plan

III. Plan XV bis

IV. Joffre’s XVII

Second Morocco/Agadir Crisis

I. French troops to Morocco, Apr 1911

II. The Panther, 1 Jul 1911

III. British outrage

IV. Franco-German Convention, Nov 1911

The Strange Death of French Decryption

I. de Selves discovers deception

II. Caillaux and the German ambassador

A. OOOPS

III. Madame Caillaux and Le Figaro

IV. Caillaux’s insurance policies