About the book: 2018 / Any state now cannot exist without technical intelligence. Signal intelligence appeared along with radio communications at the beginning of the twentieth century, and computer intelligence appeared along with the global Internet in the 1980s. The collection contains materials on the history of the birth and evolution of technology and methods of electronic intelligence and counterintelligence of the Russian Empire, the USSR and modern Russia; describes the successes of radio intelligence in intercepting information. “Whoever controls the information controls the world” (Nathan Rothschild))