TY - BOOK AU - Maddrell,Paul AU - Moran,Christopher AU - Iordanou,Ioanna AU - Stout,Mark AU - Dearlove,Richard AU - Gürkan,Emrah Safa AU - Lauchlan,Iain AU - Macrakis,Kristie AU - Hechelhammer,Bodo V. AU - McGarr,Paul M. TI - Spy Chiefs: Intelligence Leaders in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia SN - 9781626165236 AV - JF1525.I6S635 2018 PY - 2018/// CY - Washington PB - Georgetown University Press KW - Intelligence service--Congresses KW - Intelligence service--History--Congresses KW - Espionage--Congresses KW - Espionage--History--Congresses KW - International relations--Congresses KW - Leadership--Case studies--Congresses KW - Electronic books N1 - Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Leading in Secret -- 1 What Is Intelligence Leadership? Three Historical Trends -- 2 The Spy Chiefs of Renaissance Venice: Intelligence Leadership in the Early Modern World -- 3 Laying Hands on Arcana Imperii: Venetian Baili as Spymasters in Sixteenth-Century Istanbul -- 4 A Perfect Spy Chief? Feliks Dzerzhinsky and the Cheka -- 5 The Consummate Careerist: Erich Mielke, the German Democratic Republic's Minister for State Security -- 6 Markus Wolf: From the Shadows to the Limelight -- 7 "The Dossiers": Reinhard Gehlen's Secret Special Card File -- 8 India's Cold War Spy Chiefs: Decolonizing Intelligence in South Asia -- 9 Emir Farid Chehab: "Father of the Lebanese Sûreté Générale -- 10 Egypt's Spy Chiefs: Servants or Leaders? -- Conclusion: Government Men -- List of Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z N2 - This second volume of Spy Chiefs goes beyond the commonly studied spy chiefs of the United States and the United Kingdom to examine leaders from Renaissance Venice to the Soviet Union, Germany, India, Egypt, and Lebanon in the twentieth century UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=5704226 ER -