YENİ ASUR DÖNEMİNDE İSTİHBARAT FAALİYETLERİ ve ELEMANLARI
Despite the fact that there was no information about activities and agents of intelligence due to the scarcity of the written documents belonging to periods before New Assyria, many documents related to intelligence were revealed in following periods.These documents may be deemed to include regional reports which were sent by princes who have communicated directly with the king, information notes provided by the local administrators, information provided by merchants through trade, and information provided by the people who had gone to the enemy state by disguising themselves. In the new Assyrian period, intelligent agents gathered information about the number of enemy soldiers, camps of enemies, route of enemies, and about the climate and geographical structure of the region where the Assyrian army could go.
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