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020			_a9780198791317
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050	0	0	_aJF1525 .I6 _bI65 2019
100	1		_aIordanou, Ioanna, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aVenice's secret service : _borganizing intelligence in the Renaissance / _cIoanna Iordanou.
250			_aFirst edition.
260			_aUK: _bOxford University Press, _c2019.
300			_axii, 263 pages : _billustrations, facsimilies ; _c24 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520	8		_aVenice'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.
650		0	_aIntelligence service _zItaly _zVenice _xHistory _y16th century.
650		7	_aIntelligence service. _2fast
650		7	_aServices de renseignements _zItalie _zVenise (Italie) _yRenaissance. _2ram.
651		0	_aVenice (Italy) _xHistory _y16th century.
651		7	_aItaly _zVenice. _2fast
655		7	_aHistory. _2fast
700	1		_aAndrew, Christopher M., _ewriter of foreword.
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