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Some Thoughts about the Activity of Military Intelligence Services before World War I

Summary/Abstract: Most of the documents which had been produced at the Evidenzbüro, the military secret service of the Austro–Hungarian Monarchy, were destroyed at the end of World War I. The missing documents are only partially supplemented by the other parts of the Military Archives. Yet the written legacy of Maximilian Ronge, last head of the Evidenzbüro, reveals a lot about the functioning of the services. The Austro–Hungarian diplomacy despised the work of the secret services, and claimed that their information were unreliable. In reality, information gathering became increasingly professional around the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, and this process also influenced the Evidenzbüro. Political changes were quickly reflected in the activities of the secret services. After 1902 Italy increased the intensity of its intelligence activities against the Monarchy. After 1903 the Evidenzbüro likewise speeded up its own work with regard to Serbia and Montenegro, yet their information about the state of the Serbian army was very limited at the start of the war. The secret service regarded the peoples of the multiethnical Empire as disloyal to the Monarchy, especially the Galicians, who were treated as attached to Russia.

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