Blog number 260 **** 18 December 2008
The title of the book, "Between Silk and Cyanide" comes from a conversation the author had with two of his bosses. He was trying to get them to OK the use of one time codes printed on silk so they couldn't be detected by periodic random searches by the Gestapo on city streets.
Each time a code was used, the agent would clip it off the piece of silk and destroy it.
The author's bosses...why don't I just start using the author's name? It's Leo Marks. Now, Leo's bosses asked him if he could put the importance of using the silk as opposed to not, in one paragraph. He said he could do it in one sentence. "It's between silk or cyanide." Use the silk or use the cyanide that each agent was issued.
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