Talk:Intelligence (disambiguation)
History of Contemporary Intelligence: A line of a research proposal.
Human acts may ultimately be an act of information (INFO[1]), sabotage (DISINFO)[2]) [3], or an act of protection, of counter-intelligence (CONTRINFO)[4].
It may be a line of research to elaborate that there exists an order of factors [5] that alters the product:
One needs 1. to have the will, 2. to know, what having one 3. power (be enabled, empowered), may result in his 4. act - The contention is that one needs, first, to desire to know, then he must also be able - be empowered... to end up that he will do something.
Austro-Hungarian Empire
By late 19th Century, the Habsburg Dinasty Intelligence Service had a gigantic Intelligence Archive located in Vienna controlled by Count Kalnoky - his successors still reachable in today's Rumania [6]. Count Kalnoky was the Foreign Affairs Minister of Austro-Hungarian Empire [7] (Its operations were worldwide, and same were instrumental in South American politics (citation needed), see Count Welsersheimb dialogues with Brazilian Emperor Dom Pedro II [8].
Greece
In Greece: One surely must expand a research on Konstantinos Kanaris (a.k.a. Constantine Kanaris) who gained his fame during the Greek War of Independence (1821–1829)[9].
Germany
The speculation, raisen by German Emperor Wilhelm II [10] himself, that Wilhelm Canaris was a descendant of Konstantinos Kanaris was never proven [11] he may have been uncle to Wilhelm Canaris [12], the German admiral, head of the Abwehr, the German military intelligence service, from 1935 to 1944 and member of the German Resistance that ended up hanged [13] by Hitler [14]. RICARDO Gomes de Paiva DE FARIA 10:04, 7 July 2009 (UTC)
If such a "History of Contemporary Intelligence" line of a research is deemed fit and proper then it goes without saying that it needs to be expanded into the United Kingdom, France Spain, Portugal and earlier, Venice and so on: One may have a gist of how wide is this realm as one may note the size of the British Empire, the Roman Empire and - it has no end - for the oldest profession in the world Intelligence is.