What was the first global intelligence agency?
Pic sort of related.
>>2379532
Don't know that, but the first intelligence agency that got really powerful was the Okhrana of Tsarist Russia.
>>2379532
Whatever Spain or Portugal was using in the 16th century.
>>2379532
The Catholic Church.
The Byzantines established an agency of Foreign Affairs, that was responsible for collecting information on the various kingdoms and tribes around them. It was a secret service kind of thing.
>>2379587
This tbhfam
global jewry.
>>2379532
They've had spies as long as they've had prostitutes and assassins.
>>2379587
Unironically this.