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 "common informers"
Societies for the Reformation of Manners British Home Office Fenians (Irish Republican Brotherhood - IRB) Henry le Caron (Thomas Beach)
Gilbert McMicken Chief of 1880-83 Special Branch, London Metropolitan Police Karl Marx anarchists trade unionists Emma Goldman suffragettes
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