 A few months later he was sentenced to six months in prison for fraud in Wiesbaden but fled to Szczecin, where he was arrested.During the Agadir crisis, Graves was probably recruited directly from the prison for naval intelligence at his Berlin headquarters in the presence of Arthur Tapken, Georg Stammer and Gustav Steinhauer.As' W. Lewis, he was to observe movements of British warships off Scotland, especially in front of the naval bases Rosyth and Cromarty, for which he received £15 (£ in 2020) a month.