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Venice's Secret Service

Organizing Intelligence in the Renaissance

Iordanou, Ioanna (Senior Lecturer in Human Resource Management, Senior Lecturer in Human Resource Management, Oxford Brookes University)

Venice's Secret Service

Venice's Secret Service

Organizing Intelligence in the Renaissance

Venice's Secret Service

 

Ioanna Iordanou traces the remarkable development of Venetian intelligence in the city-state system of Northern Italy, contesting that early-modern Venice was home of the world's first centrally-organized state intelligence service, setting a framework that has been instrumental in the creation of modern intelligence.


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Beschrijving Venice's Secret Service

Venice's Secret Service is the untold and arresting story of the world's earliest centrally-organised state intelligence service. Long before the inception of SIS and the CIA, in the period of the Renaissance, the Republic of Venice had masterminded a remarkable centrally-organised state intelligence organisation that played a pivotal role in the defence of the Venetian empire. Housed in the imposing Doge's Palace and under the direction of the Council of Ten, the notorious governmental committee that acted as Venice's spy chiefs, this 'proto-modern' organisation served prominent intelligence functions including operations (intelligence and covert action), analysis, cryptography and steganography, cryptanalysis, and even the development of lethal substances. Official informants and amateur spies were shipped across Europe, Anatolia, and Northern Africa, conducting Venice's stealthy intelligence operations. Revealing a plethora of secrets, their keepers, and their seekers, Venice's Secret Service explores the social and managerial processes that enabled their existence and that furnished the foundation for an extraordinary intelligence organisation created by one of the early modern world's most cosmopolitan states.


ISBN
9780198791317
Pagina's
288
Verschenen
Rubriek
Nieuwe geschiedenis (1500-1870)
Druk
1
Uitvoering
Hardback
Taal
Engels
Uitgever
OUP Oxford