Description
SPYING is certainly the world's second oldest profession. It may even be older than that ancient trade generally reputed the oldest, and which espionage has so often exploited to its own advantage.
Ever since man first made war on man-as families, tribes, peoples, nations and finally empires fought against each other, spying has been a major weapon. It has had its place, too, in the diplomacy which precedes active hostilities. For espionage and diplomacy are but two sides of the coin. It is no accident that what is known to foreigners as the British Intelligence Service is part of the Foreign Office in Whitehall; that the United States of America's Central Intelligence Agency was first directed by a man whose brother, Mr. John Foster Dulles, was for much of the same time American Secretary of State; and that in the Soviet clandestine organizations there is a legal apparatus which operates under cover of a Soviet Embassy, and an illegal apparatus with which Soviet diplomats have, at least officially, no connexion.
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