Venice's Secret Service: Organising Intelligence in the Renaissance
Organizing Intelligence in the Renaissance
Ioanna Iordanou
ISBN: | 9780198791317 |
Publisher: | OUP Oxford |
Published: | 10 October, 2019 |
Format: | Hardcover |
Language: | English |
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Venice's Secret Service: Organising Intelligence in the Renaissance
Organizing Intelligence in the Renaissance
Ioanna Iordanou
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 stateintelligence 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 prominentintelligence 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'sstealthy 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 ofthe early modern world's most cosmopolitan states.
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