The Secret Intelligence Network that defeated Hitler. Words change the world. This is Jim Denison's

daily article for Friday, March 1st, 2019. Words saved the world. William Stevenson was a

World War I hero, businessman, inventor, and spy master. Ian Fleming called him the real thing behind his

James Bond character. The book, a man called Intrepid, tells Stevenson's incredible story. Intrepid

was his codename. The book reads more like a novel than the historical narrative it is. Here we

learned that early in World War II, Stevenson created a secret network that eventually involved 30,000 intelligence experts. They worked behind enemy lines in Europe to provide intelligence

to President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill. These operatives were able to feed false

information to German authorities, convincing them that D-Day would be launched at Calais rather

than Normandy. This kept Hitler from committing

forces that could have defeated the Allied invasion. When the Germans began launching rockets

into London, these intelligence spies fed the Nazis false data on where their rockets actually

fell, saving thousands of lives. They helped the Allies free Niels Bohr from Nazi captivity,

which kept the Germans from developing atomic weapons and helped America create the bombs that ended World War II. These secret heroes did not fire

weapons or drive tanks. They risked, and many gave their lives to communicate words that helped

defeat Hitler and save the world. In more recent news, a Florida congressman made news with a tweet

directed at Michael Cohen, which the congressman later took down and for which he apologized. The Florida bar has now

opened an investigation into whether the congressman, a licensed attorney in the state,

violated professional conduct rules with his tweet. Even wordless events require words to record

and interpret them. You may not know that on this day in 2007, Switzerland invaded

Liechtenstein. A detachment of 170 Swiss infantrymen got lost on a training mission

and accidentally crossed their neighbor's border. Lichtenstein is 17 times smaller than Rhode Island.

Its 37,000 residents were not aware that they had been invaded. Since they have no army, they chose not to retaliate.

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