On page 848 Major Vernon Kell began -- what later became an out-of-control behemoth organization -- with just "a room, a desk and a filing cabinet"; when Kell asked for a clerk to assist him, the bureaucracy was surprised that "…such extravagance was necessary" (Hiley, 848).
This juxtaposition is by way of explaining how, as the fear of the Germans expanded, and as the list of suspected spies grew enormously huge, and paranoia became so powerful that peace groups and labor groups came under suspicion, civil liberties were shoved aside. On page 853 Hiley notes that prior to October 1911, in order to open a letter that was passing through the Royal Mails, a warrant had to be signed by authorities. However, once legislation had passed, as reported earlier in this paper, thousands upon thousands of letters through the Royal Mails were being opened.
All along, Kell was convinced that there was a "…hostile organization" that had taken hold in the eastern and southern counties of Britain; he was sure the spies and other agents of the German government were there in advance of "…the invading forces" and to help those forces'...
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