A naval officer serving with an embassy or attached as an observer to a foreign navy.
he served as a naval attaché in Washington
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At the time, he was stationed at the Swedish Embassy in the British capital as a naval attaché.
A courtesy invitation in to the naval attaché to come aboard and enjoy a drink had a very specific objective.
During the Spanish-American War, he served as naval attaché in Paris, organizing espionage to report Spanish ship movements.
He arrived in the United States to begin a three-year stint as a naval attaché to the Embassy in Washington.
The call went overnight to the naval attaché in Moscow and then, as we understand it, Russian naval officials immediately were put in contact with the Pacific fleet in Hawaii.
After a lapse of six years naval attaché ciphers were re-entered in 1944, mainly by the British.
The pleased naval attaché described the coup as "close to perfect."
These events explain why the naval attaché knew nothing about the movement of the ship to the eastern Mediterranean.
They had no national intelligence service beyond their diplomats and a few naval attachés.
His career included a spell as naval attaché in London.