Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Foreword; Abbreviations; Introduction: Leading in Secret; 1 What Is Intelligence Leadership? Three Historical Trends; 2 The Spy Chiefs of Renaissance Venice: Intelligence Leadership in the Early Modern World; 3 Laying Hands on Arcana Imperii: Venetian Baili as Spymasters in Sixteenth-Century Istanbul; 4 A Perfect Spy Chief? Feliks Dzerzhinsky and the Cheka; 5 The Consummate Careerist: Erich Mielke, the German Democratic Republic's Minister for State Security; 6 Markus Wolf: From the Shadows to the Limelight
7 ""The Dossiers"": Reinhard Gehlen's Secret Special Card File8 India's Cold War Spy Chiefs: Decolonizing Intelligence in South Asia; 9 Emir Farid Chehab: ""Father of the Lebanese Sûreté Générale; 10 Egypt's Spy Chiefs: Servants or Leaders?; Conclusion: Government Men; List of Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
Summary
This second volume of Spy Chiefs goes beyond the commonly studied spy chiefs of the United States and the United Kingdom to examine leaders from Renaissance Venice to the Soviet Union, Germany, India, Egypt, and Lebanon in the twentieth century
