“Brrrring … this is your mission should you chose to accept it.”
The opening of the Mission Impossible television show then a series of films popularized by Tom Cruise’s Ethan Hawk character created a dark shadow world of intrigue and espionage with adrenaline pumping action and focused concentration on deciphering some secret code which kept evil forces at bay.
The real spy world may not have been quite as glamourous as Hollywood portrayed—or perhaps it was to the secret agents who experienced it—yet it has important historical significance. Knowledge brings power and the German Spy Museum Berlin at Leipziger Platz is both an educational hub and multi-media catalog recording the history of espionage back to the earliest settlements and a ruler’s desire to monitor an enemy’s activity. The ancient Egyptians, Persians, Greeks, and Romans all maintained intricate spy networks to watch both foreign powers and their own people. Espionage was professionalized during the 15th century when the counsellors of Queen Elizabeth I established the first dedicated intelligence network and French Cardinal Richelieu used his “Cabinet Noir” to monitor the correspondence of foreign diplomats and those suspected of treason. The advent of new communication technologies such as the telegraph, telephone and radio signals in the 19th century then the vast internet traffic of current times has changed the face of spying.
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