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Spy Chiefs : Intelligence Leaders in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Washington : Georgetown University Press, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (289 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781626165236
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Spy Chiefs: Volume 2LOC classification:
  • JF1525.I6S635 2018
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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