sentences:  Later at the Rennes trial of 1899, General Mercier explained the nature of the prohibited disclosure documents submitted in the courtroom.This file contained, in addition to letters without much interest, some of which were falsified, a piece known as the "Scoundrel D ...".It was a letter from the German military attache, Max von Schwarzkoppen, to the Italian military attaché, Alessandro Panizzardi, intercepted by the SR.