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This work could be considered a kind of codex of foreign intelligence work, with biblical roots, a true guide to foreign intelligence work.

Domestic, foreign and military intelligence services, security services and other intelligence and protection departments carry out the knowledge, prevention, countermeasures or removal, as appropriate, of threats to national security. In ensuring the state of security, a fundamental role is the knowledge of dysfunctions, vulnerabilities, risk factors, threats and dangers to it, which is achieved by identifying/transmitting informational priorities by other competent bodies, searching and obtaining information. security, their analysis/processing and their transmission/dissemination to legally empowered decision-makers for the prevention and countermeasures of decisions. This objective is achieved through specific operative actions of intelligence structures, state institutions, organically integrated into the state administration, based on adequate legal support, full responsibility of political authorities and parliamentary control.

Book review: Sorin Aparaschivei (2021). The British Intelligence Service in Romania (1916 – 1950). Military Publishing House, Bucharest, ISBN: 9789733212003. About the overall actions of the British Intelligence Service (British Intelligence Service n.a), but which also contains the organization and evolution of the Romanian Intelligence and Counterintelligence Service, which for this period was in a close relationship of collaboration and change with its British counterparts, even in the moments when Romania and Great Britain were in opposite camps.

Today, more than ever, more and more data and information circulate through more and more information channels. The abundance of data at our disposal today requires a realistic treatment: a large part of the information is redundant, and many of them are useless to the beneficiaries. The "intelligence" analyst has the role of "filter of information" for decision-makers who operate with a large volume of information. Under these conditions, the question arises as to who provides accurate, valuable and timely information, and who presents worthless news or events without placing them in context, without interpreting their role.

The East European region has always created a space of interaction between the great powers of the Eastern and Western Europe of the different epochs in European history. Not just a contact and an interaction region between Europe, Asia and the Middle East (Africa), but also a pivot of the European security environment, most often forming a real axis on which this scene of confrontation between powers can bend into one or the other part. We can say that the Eastern European region has formed hundreds of years ago (with the emergence of Ottoman power and its pressure on the Western powers, the emergence of the Tsarist and later Soviet power) a pivotal axis which determined the geopolitical configuration of the world and led successively to the advancement or decay of an empire or another. Indeed, the balance between Western powers and the Ottoman Empire, and later between the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the Eastern Powers, such as the Ottoman Empire and the Tsarist Empire, has been established for several hundred years right in this pivotal axis of Eastern Europe. For this reason, the political and military situation of the territories covered by the pivotal axis have always been a special one. This pivotal axis of Europe started from the Baltic Sea and was generally disposed over the continental strip where today are countries like Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, a part of Poland (Pomerania and a part of Silesia), the Czech Republic, the western part of today Romania and a part of Serbia. This geographical positioning of the pivotal axis has led to a permanent political turmoil and change of borders in the mentioned regions. Referring exclusively to the manner in which this pivot axis intersected the current territory of Romania, we observe that in its passage from north to south it included Satu Mare, Oradea, Arad, Timişoara and Reşita. Oradea has always played an important role in Central-Eastern Europe, NATO recognizing the NATO HUMINT Centre of Excellence (HCOE) as a strategical organization with a remarkable contribution to the development of the Human Intelligence capability within the Alliance.

The contemporary security environment has increasingly unpredictable mutations and the international scene seems to be gripped by a conflict that threatens to erupt at any moment, becoming an open conflict, violent and able to spread quickly everywhere; although for decades the source of conflict appeared to be the Middle East region, more recently, this source of global conflicts seems to move a little further to the north, reaching the Extended Black Sea Region (EBSR). Apparently, in EBSR are the great fossil resources that will be important once the basins of oil/gas from the Middle East will be depleted. The moment of fossil resources depletion in the Middle East is not too far. The EBSR will become the global centre of interest and this move of the global source of conflict in the Black Sea region leads to the need to develop new and special models for the management of national security. But going towards which direction? This question among others raises the attention of the scientific research in this important area of security. The first goal could only be to find out the truth, because only based on truth we can develop the appropriate model of management.

Important testimonies about the moment of August 23, 1944 as a result of the existence, in the National Archives of Romania - the "Manuscripts" Fund, of the Activity Memoir of Lt. Col. Traian Borcescu, head of the Second Counterintelligence Section of the Special Intelligence Service (SSI). The officer, from his position as leader of the SSI structure with responsibilities regarding the knowledge and combating of phenomena that could affect the internal order and stability of the country in wartime, is one of the direct participants in the action of preparing the act, demonstrating, once again, that this bold action of joining Romania to the United Nations coalition was not done ad hoc, but required a meticulously elaborated plan to which the SSI contributed through its representatives who fully did their duty to country, as well as in other moments or events of great importance for Romania.

Currently, in Romania, as in all other Euro-Atlantic states and within the international organizations we are part of (NATO for example), there is a strong demand for "well-trained" intelligence analysts. To function effectively, intelligence structures need effective intelligence analysts, or in other words, well-trained intelligence analysts. This is the case with our national intelligence community and its components and structures. The need and importance of the project is consequently rooted in the need for well-trained analysts and their central mission in the field of information, namely the creation of products (security information) that can present a correct and accurate understanding of various processes, events. and phenomena for decision makers. The selection of those targeted to be trained requires the initial composition of the profile of an intelligence analyst, the selection itself requiring the orientation towards a psychological profile compatible with the mission that he will have to fulfill and which possesses a minimum level of analytics. required skills, the other aspects of analyst training will be implemented in a program called for the education and training of information analysts.

Competitive intelligence (CI) represents the action of defining, collecting, analyzing, distributing information about products, customers, competitors, as well as any aspect related to the environment necessary to support managers in making strategic decisions for an organization. In essence, competitive intelligence means understanding what is happening in the world outside a business, about the competition in the market.

The concerns of the states in order to more effectively organize the structures and management of intelligence agencies/services, increased especially after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, by adopting more flexible and effective organizational forms to achieve these objectives, obviously increasing the usefulness and performances them. In essence, intelligence agencies/services aim to search and procure data, analyze and transform them into information necessary for the political, economic and military leadership of a state, in the process of the information cycle. which I described previously. The way in which this process is organized and carried out determines the structure and mode of operation of an agency/information service. Thus, a general structure of an intelligence agency/service could have the following (main) components: management, collection, exploitation, technical, protection, administrative.

From a political point of view, the Romanian countries are stabilizing their internal situation. Externally, they manage to improve their relations with other states and, first of all, with the neighboring ones. Internally, the rulers undertake inspired and useful organizational measures. In this sense, the constant concerns of Şerban Constantin, Constantin Cantemir and Constantin Brâncoveanu regarding the improvement of the functionality and the modernization of the secret services should be noted.