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Despite some success in rolling up German agents by U.S. law enforcement throughout the early years of World War I, the German espionage network in America was far from incapacitated, as demonstrated by a handful of operations, to include the first use of germ warfare on U.S. soil, that proved highly damaging to Allied efforts in Europe.