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Kyle Wilson

The Secret World: A history of intelligence by Christopher Andrew

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January-February 2019, no. 408
Kyle Wilson reviews 'The Secret World: A history of intelligence' by Christopher Andrew

The world’s best-known espionage officer, Vladimir Putin, would relish Christopher Andrew’s account of the role of his fellow practitioners at the 1816 Congress of Vienna. The secret services of France, Prussia, Britain, Russia, and Austria jostled to monitor the trysts of courtesans with the statesmen assembled in the ...

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