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	Encyclopedia: Wilhelm Wassmuss (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Wilhelm Wassmuss (Ohlendorf, 1880–November 29, 1931) was a German diplomat, also known as the "German Lawrence" or the "Wassmuss of Persia".
		Wassmuss was born in Ohlendorf 60 kilometer south-east of Hanover and after a university education entered the German Foreign Service.
		Wilhelm Wassmuss (1880 - 1931) was a German diplomat, also known as the "German Lawrence " or the "Lawrence of Persia".
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Wilhelm-Wassmuss (2335 words)

	Wilhelm Wassmuss - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Wilhelm Wassmuss would achieve this by first bringing Iran into the war on the German side by organizing revolts among the Iranians against the British occupiers.
		Wilhelm Wassmuss’ story of his escape is almost impossible to swallow.
		The British had read Wassmuss’ pamphlets and realized he had to be stopped; they also knew doing this would not be easy because as the days went on, Wassmuss was rapidly was becoming famous throughout Iran.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wilhelm_Wassmuss (1312 words)

	Station Information - Wilhelm Wassmuss (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Wilhelm Wassmuss was also known as the "German Lawrence".
		In 1915 Wassmuss was the German consul to Persia and organised the Qashghâi tribe to revolt against the British in the south of the country.
		In the same year he lost his copy of the German Diplomatic Code Book which fell into the hands of the British and enabled them to read German diplomatic communications throughout much of World War I.
	www.stationinformation.com /encyclopedia/w/wi/wilhelm_wassmuss.html (78 words)

	Encyclopedia: Bushehr (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		It was occupied by the British again in 1915, the second time due to German intriguing, most notably by Wilhelm Wassmuss.
		Wilhelm Wassmuss (1880–1931) was a German diplomat, also known as the German Lawrence or the Lawrence of Persia.
		Bushehr is near (12 km) the site of a nuclear power plant being built in cooperation with Russia.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Bushehr (1703 words)

	Zimmermann Telegram - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This was made possible because the code the Foreign Office used (0075) had been partially cryptanalyzed using, among other techniques, captured plaintext messages and a codebook for an earlier version of the cypher captured from Wilhelm Wassmuss, a German agent working in the Middle East.
		To the delight of the British code breakers, the message had been sent from the German embassy in Washington to Mexico using the older cypher in the Wassmuss codebook and could therefore be completely decrypted — presumably because the German embassy in Mexico did not have the latest codebook.
		The telegram was delivered by Admiral Hall to the British Foreign Minister, Arthur James Balfour, who in turn contacted the US ambassador in Britain, Walter Page, and delivered the telegram to him on February 23.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Zimmermann_Telegram (1525 words)

	Room 40 & the Naval Intelligence Division
		Wilhelm Wassmuss, the German Vice-consul in the Persian Gulf, was the Central Powers equivalent of Britain's Lawrence.
		Soon the German's progress was known to the Persian police, the British, and to everyone in the country, and one of the local chiefs decided that this was a good opportunity to ingratiate himself with the English, still the dominant foreign Power in the land.
		This officer said that Wassmuss had seemed terribly upset by the loss of his propaganda leaflets, according to reports from tribes he had later visited.
	hometown.aol.com /IRB1858/room40.html (21323 words)

	Iranica.com - GERMANY
		On the eve of the second visit to Europe by Mozáaffar-al-D^n Shah in 1902, which was to include a trip to Berlin, Wilhelm II, who was determined not to receive the shah, stressed in categorical terms his lack of interest in Persia, with which Germany had "absolutely nothing to do" (Martin, p.
		This attitude of the imperial government not only incurred the indignation of some interested economic circles, but was also criticized in the writings of the influential ideological protagonists of Germany's world-wide expansion, who wanted Persia to be included in an aggressive German Middle East policy.
		In southwest Persia, local khans, encouraged by the pre-war German consul in Bu@æehr, Wilhelm Wassmuss, threatened the British positions, while German agents operating from bases in Mesopotamia (Captain Klein's unit) attacked British oil installations in K¨u@zesta@n (Gehrke, I, pp.
	www.iranica.com /articles/v10f5/v10f515a.html (9647 words)

	Iranica.com - FARS_NAMA
		With Wilhelm Wassmuss, an unrelenting German agent who acquired the nickname of The German Lawrence, the anti-British movement gathered force in Fa@rs during World War I (see, e.g., Sykes, passim; von Mikusch, passim).
		Furthermore, tribal khans received monetary rewards and supply of weapons and ammunitions from Wassmuss.
		von Mikusch, Wassmuss, der deutsche Lawrence, Berlin, 1938.
	www.iranica.com /articles/v9f3/v9f393b.html (10165 words)

	More on Room 40 & the Naval Intelligence Division
		It contained a copy of the German naval attaché codebook which was used by Germany's Foreign Office when sending messages to its embassies throughout the world.
		In 1915 Wilhelm Wassmuss, the German consul in Persia or Iran, fled his consulate in Bushire so hastily to escape British troops that he left behind a trunk containing a copy of the German diplomatic code.
		One day in the spring or summer of 1915 Hall was told by a naval officer invalided from the Persian Gulf the remarkable tale of how Wassmuss, a German vice-consul and Arabian adventurer, had been forced to flee on horseback in his pyjamas, leaving his baggage behind.
	hometown.aol.com /IRB1858/birthofRm40.html (21386 words)

	'Just World News' by Helena Cobban: Sad, isolationist harrumphing escalates... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In other cultures, this is a popular metaphor for imbibing utter delusion.
		The Greenmantle of John Buchan's WW1-era thriller was a sort of Wassmuss character (Wilhelm Wassmuss was a German diplomat and secret agent who spoke Persian and Turkish.
		When the War broke out, he attempted to lead an anti-British uprising from Bushehr, Iran); but in Buchan's mind, Greenmantle is supposed to be a sort of madhi, or messiah, of s.w.
	justworldnews.org /archives/000583.html (2205 words)

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