And third, the introduction of our own secret agents into every branch of the Oligarchy--into the labor castes and especially among the telegraphers and secretaries and clerks, into the army, the agents-provocateurs, and the slave-drivers.

It was slow work, and perilous, and often were our efforts rewarded with costly failures.
The Iron Heel had triumphed in open warfare, but we held our own in the new warfare, strange and awful and subterranean, that we instituted.
All was unseen, much was unguessed; the blind fought the blind; and yet through it all was order, purpose, control.

We permeated the entire organization of the Iron Heel with our agents, while our own organization was permeated with the agents of the Iron Heel.

It was warfare dark and devious, replete with intrigue and conspiracy, plot and counterplot.

And behind all, ever menacing, was death, violent and terrible.