there were lots of-- thereafter but it was through christopher draper that mi5 learned how existing spies, real spies, not the allegiance made contact with german intelligence. i won't go into the details, we discovered about snow and the rest is the most successful deception in the entire history of warfare and i don't think that that is an exaggeration. but, you know you don't just suddenly learn deception of light. there we are. this is the beginning of the first world war. at the beginning of the first world war, mi5 only gad 17 staff members and that was including the caretaker of the so there was a very rapid expansion which brought to london in numbers of 854. this is the first man to us recruited. he is only 20. one of the things them both of the wars which extinguishes british intelligence is the willingness to recruit bright and also very young talented people. this man's name is william hensley cook. he was recruited in august 1940. he was only 20 at the time. he had been educated in germany. his father was british and his mother was german. and he was taken on. you probably ca