Possible Clues:

• Agent carrying papers, here essentially marked with angular lines?
• Like an arachnid's web
• Weblike in appearance
• Long and thin
• Weblike
• (Of writing) thin and straggling
• Wispy
• One German article penned by agent in untidy hand
• Thin and angular, as Arachne became
• (Of writing) thin and straggly