Venice S Secret Service

Author : Ioanna Iordanou
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192508829

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Venice's Secret Service by Ioanna Iordanou Pdf

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.

Author : Ioanna Iordanou
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-24
Category : Intelligence service
ISBN : 9780198791317

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Venice's Secret Service by Ioanna Iordanou Pdf

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.

Author : Richard Wilmer Rowan
Publisher : Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, Doran, Incorporated
Page : 778 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1937
Category : Secret service
ISBN : UOM:39015004229699

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The Story of Secret Service by Richard Wilmer Rowan Pdf

Author : Keith Jeffery
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 834 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2010-09-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780747591832

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MI6 by Keith Jeffery Pdf

The first - and only - history of the Secret Intelligence Service, written with full and unrestricted access to the closed archives of the Service for the period 1909-1949.

Author : Hector Charles Bywater,Herbert Cecil Ferraby,Hubert Cecil Ferraby
Publisher : London : Constable
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1931
Category : Germany
ISBN : UCAL:$B750739

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Strange Intelligence by Hector Charles Bywater,Herbert Cecil Ferraby,Hubert Cecil Ferraby Pdf

Author : Marsha Keith Schuchard
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 824 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004214194

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Emanuel Swedenborg, Secret Agent on Earth and in Heaven by Marsha Keith Schuchard Pdf

Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772) won fame and infamy as a natural scientist and visionary theosopher, but he was also a master intelligencer, who served as a secret agent for the French king, Louis XV, and the pro-French, pro-Jacobite party of "Hats" in Sweden. This study draws upon unpublished diplomatic and Masonic archives to place his financial and political actitivities within their national and international contexts. It also reveals the clandestine military and Masonic links between the Swedish Hats and Charles Edward Stuart ("Bonnie Prince Charlie"), providing new evidence for the prince's role as hidden Grand Master of the Order of the Temple. Swedenborg's usage of Kabbalistic meditative and interpretative techniques and his association with Hermetic and Rosicrucian adepts reveal the extensive esoteric networks that underlay the exoteric politics of the supposedly "enlightened" eighteenth century, especially in the troubled "Northern World" of Sweden and Scotland.

Author : Philip H. Melanson,Peter F. Stevens
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2002-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0786710845

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The Secret Service by Philip H. Melanson,Peter F. Stevens Pdf

Pulling the veil off a highly visible yet tight-lipped federal agency, acclaimed scholar Philip Melanson has created the first definitive history of the Secret Service. With 8 pages of photographs, rigorous research and interviews with former White House staffers, retired agents, Service training dropouts, and the first female agent on the presidential detail, Melanson presents the agency's hidden history and examines its role in the headlines of our times. Here are revelations about the assassination of JFK and the shooting of President Reagan, along with threats against other presidents; presidential demands on agents and agency funds (by JFK, LBJ, Nixon, the Bushes, and Clinton); alcoholism, divorce, and burnout among agents; the Service's inexplicable failure to develop a profile of assassins that would facilitate effective prevention; and how the gender gap within the Service has been institutionalized. Assailing the image of a highly professional and apolitical organization, the book examines the pervasive, often detrimental influence that politics exerts on the Service, typified by Kenneth Starr's efforts to use agents' testimony against President Clinton. Melanson also discusses the profound new challenge facing the Secret Service: How to respond in a post–September 11 world, as brazen new assassination methods proliferate. With this provocative study, one federal agency still veiled in secrecy is exposed for all to see. Explosive and revealing, this is the first comprehensive history of one of our government's most shrouded agencies.

Author : Paul Morand
Publisher : Pushkin Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781782270492

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Venices by Paul Morand Pdf

"It is after experiencing life that I have returned here to think about myself." Paul Morand was a diplomat, traveller, socialite and one of the most erudite and original writers of the twentieth century. Venices is his typically unconventional autobiography: an evocative account of a remarkable life lived surrounded by the remarkable. Its poised, impressionistic, poetically vivid scenes add up year-by- year to a rich meditation, full of astonish- ing portraits and memories, joy as well as melancholy. Though Morand's reputation was mar- red for years by his involvement with the collaborationist Vichy government, this book, in its effortless elegance, demonstrates why his influence has been so great. The thread that holds it taut throughout is Venice, the city to which Morand always returned.

Author : Paul Kramer
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2006-12-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1425705731

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Memories of a Secret Agent by Paul Kramer Pdf

It is essential for the reader to remember that this is a memoir; in otherwords, a record of events based on the author's experiences and feelings. Becauseof the secrecy restrictions at the time these events occurred, and in some casesfor many years thereafter, the author kept no diary, notes, or record and wrote noletters describing his work. Furthermore, almost without exception, all the peoplewith whom and for whom he worked are now dead. Consequently, in writingthis book, the author has been entirely dependent on his memory. At the age ofninety-one, this memory may have at times been defective or twisted. However, there can be no doubt the story is true. Careful research of the archives of theOffice of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs, the U.S. Navy, and the CIAshould substantiate this. But even here, there will be difficulties due to secrecyand the "deindexing" of the FBI's Latin American files by its then-director ratherthan turn them over to the hated CIA. Moreover, the author's foolish refusal toaccede to the request of his commanding officer to write the history of the navaloperation Road's End immediately after its conclusion and for which he hadreceived a commendation has erased forever the details of that historic event.Finally, the tragic suicide of the CIA's director of operations subsequent to theKim Philby espionage scandal diminished the possibility of a proper analysis ofevents surrounding it in Washington . . .

Author : Daphne du Maurier
Publisher : Virago
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2010-01-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780748114641

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Golden Lads by Daphne du Maurier Pdf

Prior to the publication of this biography, the elusive Anthony Bacon was merely glimpsed in the shadow of his famous younger brother, Francis. A fascinating historical figure, Anthony Bacon was a contemporary of the brilliant band of gallants who clustered round the court of Elizabeth I, and he was closely connected with the Queen's favourite, the Earl of Essex. He also worked as an agent for Sir Francis Walsingham, the Queen's spymaster, living in France where he became acquainted with Henri IV and the famous essayist Michel de Montaigne. It was in France that du Maurier discovered a secret that, if disclosed during Bacon's lifetime, could have put an end to his political career . . . Du Maurier did much to shed light on matters that had long puzzled historians, and, as well as a consummate exercise in research, this biography is also a strange and fascinating tale.

Author : Christopher M. Andrew
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 660 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : UOM:39015010443862

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Secret Service by Christopher M. Andrew Pdf

Author : William Carew Hazlitt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1860
Category : Venice (Italy)
ISBN : UOM:39015063830817

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History of the Venetian Republic by William Carew Hazlitt Pdf

Author : William Carew Hazlitt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1860
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB10078300

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History of the Venetian Republic: Her Rise, Her Greatness, and Her Civilization by William Carew Hazlitt Pdf

Author : Gordon Corera
Publisher : George Weidenfeld & Nicholson
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Intelligence service
ISBN : 0297860992

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The Art of Betrayal by Gordon Corera Pdf

The British Secret Service has been cloaked in secrecy and shrouded in myth since it was created a hundred years ago. Our understanding of what it is to be a spy has been largely defined by the fictional worlds of James Bond and John le Carre. THE ART OF BETRAYAL provides a unique and unprecedented insight into this secret world and the reality that lies behind the fiction. It tells the story of how the secret service has changed since the end of World War II and by focusing on the people and the relationships that lie at the heart of espionage, revealing the danger, the drama, the intrigue, the moral ambiguities and the occasional comedy that comes with working for British intelligence. From the defining period of the early Cold War through to the modern day, MI6 has undergone a dramatic transformation from a gung-ho, amateurish organisation to its modern, no less controversial, incarnation. Gordon Corera reveals the triumphs and disasters along the way. The grand dramas of the Cold War and after - the rise and fall of the Berlin Wall, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the 11 September 2001 attacks and the Iraq war - are the backdrop for the human stories of the individual spies whose stories form the centrepiece of the narrative. But some of the individuals featured here, in turn, helped shape the course of those events. Corera draws on the first-hand accounts of those who have spied, lied and in some cases nearly died in service of the state. They range from the spymasters to the agents they ran to their sworn enemies. Many of these accounts are based on exclusive interviews and access. From Afghanistan to the Congo, from Moscow to the back streets of London, these are the voices of those who have worked on the front line of Britain's secret wars. And the truth is often more remarkable than the fiction.

Author : Paul Mavis
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-08
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476604275

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The Espionage Filmography by Paul Mavis Pdf

From Sean Connery to Roy Rogers, from comedy to political satire, films that include espionage as a plot device run the gamut of actors and styles. More than just “spy movies,” espionage films have evolved over the history of cinema and American culture, from stereotypical foreign spy themes, to patriotic star features, to the Cold War plotlines of the sixties, and most recently to the sexy, slick films of the nineties. This filmography comprehensively catalogs movies involving elements of espionage. Each entry includes release date, running time, alternate titles, cast and crew, a brief synopsis, and commentary. An introduction analyzes the development of these films and their reflection of the changing culture that spawned them.