ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Among the professionals who helped me at the Dubrovnik Archives, I thank especially Marijan Sivric, Milenko Foretic, Ivo Veselic, and the librarian, Maria Veselic.

NOTES

1 Middle Ages Latin proverb: intelligence of making money.

2 Serafin Cerva, Dominican priest, in his history of Dubrovnik (1744) writes:"Venetorum regendi formamimitati sunt Ragusini"( "The form of government of Venice is imitated by the Ragusans").

3 I. Mitich, (in Croatian). Dubrovnik State in the International Community, 1988.

4 "Lettere di Ponente", ICC 81-89.

5 Venice's "Committee dei Dieci", its intelligence and security body, was formally established in 1340, according to Preto.

6 P.Preto published a paper , a dictionary of terms for the I&S personnel in Venice.

7 Published in Zagreb by the Yugoslav Academy of Science, 1893.

8 S. Dedijer,"British Intelligence-The Rainbow Enigma", Int. Jour.of Intell. & Counterintel."Vl, N 2, 1986.

9 see D.Zivojinovic, Amerieka Revolucija i Dubrovaeka Republika, 1763-1790.

10 I have been informed that in the Archives here, there are hundreds of documents on the Lastovo case. My source is the first chapter of Samardzich's book.

11 I was unable to find the article in Yugoslavia, but found it in the Library of Congress in Washington, and presented it to the Archives.

12 M.P.Bovich,"Entre la Cruz e la Media Luna, Ragusa intelligence to the court of the Republic of Spain about the Turks in the l6th Century" (in Croatian and Spanish), Zagreb 2000.

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