ABSTRACT
Intelligence historians know Edward Bell as the World War I American diplomat in London who liaised with British intelligence in the greatest intelligence coup of all time: the British solution and revelation to the United States of the Zimmermann telegram. is 16 January 1917 message of the German Foreign Minister to the president of Mexico, offering to return to Mexico its former territories of Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona if it would war on the United States, gave a final push to US entry into World War I. But other than his name, and despite his role, the literature of the field gives not even the most basic biographical facts about Edward Bell (Figure 6.1).
