LECTURE PART 2:   
BRIEF HISTORY OF PRE-MODERN SECRET SERVICES

"second oldest profession in the world"

Moses

Trojan Horse

sycophants

Sun Tzü, The Art of War

Quintus Sertorius (biography by) Plutarch

Corps of Messengers

vigilantes

agent provocateurs

frumentarri

agents in rebus

curiosi

akritai

Basil Pantherios in Digenes Akritas

Machiavelli, The Prince; Discourses; The Art of War

Oprichniki

"police"

polizeistaat (police state)

"secret police" (privy police)

spy scares (England 1413-1422)

Sir Francis Walsingham
"Tell a lie and find the truth"

St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre
(August 24, 1572)

Christopher Marlowe - Anthony Munday

Edmund Campion

Babington Plot

Gilbert Gifford

Babington Postscript

Royal Mail

"Secret Man" Isaac Dorislaus

“Secret Office” & “Private Office”

Deciphering Branch

"common informers"

Societies for the Reformation of Manners

William Wickham

British Home Office

Luddite Movement

Habeas Corpus 

Committee of Secrecy

Spa Field Riots

Spies and Bloodites

Depot of Military Knowledge 1803 

Fenians (Irish Republican Brotherhood - IRB)

Henry le Caron  (Thomas Beach)

Attorney General John A. Macdonald

Gilbert McMicken Chief of
Canada West Frontier Police 1864

1880-83 Special Branch, London Metropolitan Police

Karl Marx

anarchists

trade unionists

Emma Goldman

suffragettes