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What is Diplomatic Spying: How Useful Is It? about?
For centuries, the roles of diplomat and spy were closely linked. Ambassadors gathered information in many ways. Some were overt, others clandestine. The diplomats of 15th-century Venice and Russia, for example, are renowned as being especially effective intelligence collectors. 1 Over time, however, the professions of diplomacy and espionage diverged, and intelligence officers and diplomats understood the distinctions even when they interacted closely. Yet, even with foreign ministries firmly established in essentially all states, meaning professional diplomats are readily available, national political leaders recurrently choose to use intelligence officers for diplomatic purposes. The modern history of intelligence frequently mentions such episodes in passing but little focuses on the reasons leaders choose to use their intelligence services as agents of diplomacy. H. Bradford Westerfield called this role "crypto-diplomacy" during a very short discussion focused on intelligence liaison. 2 Len Scott wondered whether "clandestine diplomacy" should be considered a variety of covert action, or what the British once called "special
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- Author
- John A. Gentry
- Publisher
- Taylor and Francis Group; Informa UK (Taylor & Francis); Taylor and Francis Inc.; Informa UK Limited (ISSN 0885-0607)
- Published
- 2020
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Social Sciences