More effective Abwehr?

Hi all, had a quick search through the forums but couldn't find anything relating to this recently so i decided to throw a quick thread up.

Would there be any way of making the Abwehr more effective? would it take as little as replacing Canaris with someone more sympathetic to Nazi goals? There is lots of evidence to suggest he was anti Nazi and that the Abwehr under his command was involved in plenty of plots against Hitler himself.

But would removing him work to improve their intelligence work during the war or was it an effectively rotten organisation outclassed by the allied intelligence networks and against the war effort throughout?

Could they have been better utilised as an internal intelligence organisation or purely external and leave any domestic surveillance to competitive organisations like the SD and Gestapo? Even though bureaucratic efficiency seems distinctly un-Nazi, could a merging of efforts be somehow achieved?
 
Most of the agents turned ridiculously easy when they were caught (and they were pretty much all caught), partly because most of them weren't really loyal to the Nazis. Why weren't they loyal? You have to be fairly adaptable to fit into an open society, but people who are adaptable aren't good Nazis precisely because of this. Basically, yes, the German intelligence system was rotten right through from the get-go.
 
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