They thought the war would be fought with tanks and planes. But Bruno knew better. Wars were not won by firepower alone—but by foresight.
In 1910, his agents helped wire the first transcontinental telephone line. In 1915, his shell corporations quietly funded the Rural Expansion Act. By 1920, proprietary switchboard tech—licensed through innocuous front companies—was embedded in AT&T, Bell, and Western Union.
Not one phone. Not one wire. Not one signal moved through an American government building without first passing through his system.
The Capitol? Monitored. The War Department? Transcribed. The Federal Reserve? Logged. Even the Oval Office's so-called "secure line" routed briefly through a nondescript relay station—installed by a "trusted private vendor," which, of course, traced back to a manor outside Potsdam.
And every night, at 0200 Berlin Time, the day's recordings—compressed, indexed, translated—were couriered to Abteilung XII of the Großes Generalstab.
