The role of an internal secret police goes back at least as far as the Roman Fru...

hythloday on Dec 3, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Julian Assange: Cryptographic Call to Arms

The role of an internal secret police goes back at least as far as the Roman Frumentarii[0] and I think you can trace a direct lineage from Walsingham's[1] operations to the CIA/NSA.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frumentarii [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Walsingham#Entrapment_o...