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immense value for the Jewish leader of that far distant day, it also
established a plot-pattern which is still of periodic relief to motion
picture producers.
Delilah - She was an impromptu intelligence agent of the Philistines. She
allowed Philistine spies to hide in her house (Judges 16:9) and used
her femininity to gain intelligence from a powerful enemy.
Sun Tzu The East was ahead of the West in the raft of intelligence in 400
B.C., rejecting the oracles and the sees. He takes a more practical
view.
elicited from spirits, or from gods, or from analogy with past events
nor from calculations. He wrote, It must be obtained from men
who knew the enemy situation.
among his allies and mercenaries). He sought the truth and got it by
simplest expedient. He devised the first letter sorting and opening
to obtain information.
2. Sertorius, Quintus The Roman general in Spain and possessor of
the white fawn that tried to follow Polynaeus everywhere. The pawn
was used as intelligence agent. His intelligence agents credited their
information to the supernatural power of animals.
3. Akbar - The Great Mogul and sagacious master of Hindustan who
employed more than four thousand agents for the sole purpose of
bringing him the truth that his throne might rest upon him.
4. Genghis Khan - He used intelligence to conquer China and invade
Cathay. He instructed his generals to send spies and used prisoners
as sources of information. The leader of the so-called Mongol
conquerors and used effective propaganda by spreading rumors of
Mongol terror.
5. Frederick, The Great - The father of organized military espionage.
He established rules for obtaining and using every grade of spy or
intelligence and divided his agents into four classes:
a. Common spies- recruited among poor folk, glad to earn small
sum or to accommodate a military officer.
b. Double spies the low informers and unreliable renegades of
value chiefly in spreading false information to the enemy.
c. Spies of consequences couriers and noblemen, staff officers,
and kindred conspirators, invariably requiring substantial bribe or
bait.
d. Persons who are forced to undertake espionage against their will.
6. Hannibal The Carthaginian General considered as one of the
brilliant military strategist.
Hannibals
invasion of Italy, his brilliant and futile raid in history, gained him many
victories and nearly bled Rome to death.
7. Gaius Julius Caesar During his time, his staff of each legion
includes ten speculators who served as information-collecting
agency. The speculators were the first intelligence personnel to
appear definitely in a military organization.
8. Karl Schulmeister - Napoleons military secret service and
Napoleons eyes. He began his career in offensive espionage. Under
a cover role, he was able to infiltrate the Austrian General Staff and
studied the characters of the Generals. His royal foes selected to
defeat him.
9. Washington, George - Conspirators under oath abound in the
history of every nation.
13. Napoleon Bonaparte Believes that One spy in the right place is
worth 20,000 men in the field. He also organized two bureaus of
interest:
a. Bureau of Intelligence consolidated all incoming information
regarding the enemy for presentation to the emperor and to obtain
information as desired.
b. Topographic Bureau maintained a large map which covers the
latest information regarding both enemy and friendly forces.
14. Wilhelm Stieber He incorporated intelligence in the General Staff
Support System. He contributed to the science of Military Censorship
and organized Military Propaganda. He worked as a census taker
and developed an informal format in the gathering of data.
15. Alfred Redl - One of the most brilliant intelligence agents, though
he was homosexual. Chief of the Austro-Hungarian secret service
and at the same time agent of the Russia (convicted of treason in
1913 - he committed suicide).
aerial
reconnaissance.
3. Wireless Telegraph was used wherein Codes And Ciphers were
applied.
4. Army Intelligence rapidly expanded during this period.
5. Agent Provocateur - was employed by the Russians for the
purpose of internal security and political repression.
Spying was
Komissija
accused
of
taking
unlawful
possession
of
government
documents and spying for a foreign power (Russia). She was a wellknown communist activist.
2. Dr. Emil Julius Klaus Fuchs He was accused of releasing
American Atomic Secrets to the Soviet in 1945 and British in 1947.
He detailed knowledge of the construction of Atomic Bombs.
3. Ernst Hilding Anderson In 1951, a Royal Navy provided military
secrets to a foreign power and was found guilty and sentenced to life
imprisonment.
II. NATURE OF INTELLIGENCE FUNCTIONS
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imparted:
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