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The Spy Who Built His Own Trap: Alfred Redl's Fatal Slip

The Spy Who Built His Own Trap: Alfred Redl's Fatal Slip

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The Spy Who Built His Own Trap: Alfred Redl's Fatal Slip

A tiny leather pen-knife sheath on a Vienna taxi seat toppled an empire: the man who built Austria-Hungary’s counter-intelligence apparatus and a fingerprint database was exposed by the single scrap he dropped on 24 May 1913. How did the colonel who installed cameras, recording devices and mail surveillance become the very man ensnared by his own systems?

In this episode, we trace Alfred Redl’s rise from a modest garrison-town childhood to the head of counter-intelligence, his secret payments from Russian, French and Italian services, and the careless moment that unpicked eleven years of betrayal. Could the surveillance network he created have prevented his fall - and what did his exposure mean for the empire’s future?

Person: Alfred Redl
Date: 24 May 1913
Location: Vienna (taxi, rear seat)
Period: 1902-1913
Event: Exposure of a mole within Imperial Intelligence

- Redl was born 14 March 1864 in Lemberg (now Lviv).
- He entered military school at age 15 and was commissioned in 1883.
- Redl began passing material to Russia in 1902 and was under Russian awareness since 1901.
- By 1907 he was head of counter-intelligence and held the position for five years until 1912.
- Russian intelligence paid Redl the equivalent of about £2.4 million in today's value (approximately $3.8 million).

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