Across the globe, spies gather in inconspicuous dens to meet contacts and hold discreet conversations. This week, Intelligence Online explores the Café Schwarzenberg, at the heart of Europe's spy capital.
In Vienna, where Western spymasters and their counterparts come in from the cold have traditionally met, agents from the Austrian intelligence service gravitate to the quintessentially Viennese Café Schwarzenberg for discreet talks with close colleagues. The busy coffee house at 17 Kärntner Ring is praised in guidebooks as one of the "most beautiful