By 1942 some seventeen different intelligence organizations had converged on Istanbul to mix and mingle, bribe, seduce, and betray, and with them came a vast and motley host of agents and double agents, smugglers, blackmailers, arms dealers, drug runners, refugees, deserters, black-marketeers, pimps, forgers, hookers, and con artists. Rumors and secrets, some of them true, whirled around the bars and back alleys. Everyone spied on everyone else; the Turkish secret police, the Emniyet, spied on all.
