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cabinet noir wikipedia jump to content main menu main menu move to sidebar hide navigation main page contents current events random article about wikipedia contact us contribute help learn to edit community portal recent changes upload file special pages search search appearance donate create account log in personal tools donate create account log in contents move to sidebar hide top 1 outside france 2 see also 3 references 4 sources 5 external links toggle the table of contents cabinet noir 10 languages deutsch español français հայերեն norsk bokmål português русский svenska українська 中文 edit links article talk english read edit view history tools tools move to sidebar hide actions read edit view history general what links here related changes upload file permanent link page information cite this page get shortened url switch to legacy parser print export download as pdf printable version in other projects wikimedia commons wikidata item appearance move to sidebar hide from wikipedia the free encyclopedia type of government intelligence gathering office 1815 caricature of the cabinet noir bodleian libraries in france the cabinet noir french pronunciation kabinɛ nwaʁ french for black room also known as the dark chamber or black chamber was a government intelligence gathering office usually within a postal service where correspondence between persons or entities was opened and read by government officials before being forwarded to its destination 1 however this had to be done with some sophistication as it was considered undesirable if the subjects of the practice knew about it and important that the black chamber not interrupt the smooth running of the postal service 2 this practice had been in vogue since the establishment of postal and telegraphy services and was frequently used by the ministers of louis xiii and louis xiv but it was not until the reign of louis xv that a separate office for this purpose was created this was called the cabinet du secret des postes or more popularly the cabinet noir although declaimed against at the time of the french revolution it was used both by the revolutionary leaders and by napoleon 3 4 nowadays the term cabinet noir refers not to intelligence officers but instead to teams of political staff dedicated to opposition research particularly in the service of the élysée palace 5 outside france edit by the 1700s cryptanalysis was becoming industrialized with teams of government cryptanalysts working together to crack the most complex monoalphabetic ciphers each european power had its own so called black chamber a nerve centre for deciphering messages and gathering intelligence the most celebrated disciplined and efficient was the geheime kabinettskanzlei in vienna it operated according to a strict timetable because it was vital that its activities should not interrupt the smooth running of the postal service letters which were supposed to be delivered to embassies in vienna were first routed via the black chamber arriving at 7 am secretaries melted seals and a team of stenographers worked in parallel to make copies of the letters within three hours the letters had been resealed and returned to the central post office to be delivered to their intended destination as well as supplying the emperors of austria with vital intelligence the viennese black chamber sold the information it harvested to other european powers in 1774 for example an arrangement was made with abbot georgel the secretary in the french embassy who had access to a biweekly package on information for 1 000 ducats a black chamber was also employed by anthonie heinsius grand pensionary of the dutch republic during the war of the spanish succession under the direction of his private secretary abel tassin d alonne they used the services of françois jaupain the director general of the postal system in the southern netherlands to intercept the diplomatic mail of france and its allies 6 in 1911 the encyclopædia britannica eleventh edition took the view that the cabinet noir had disappeared but that the right to open letters in cases of emergency still appeared to be retained by the french government and a similar right was occasionally exercised in england under the direction of a secretary of state in england this power was frequently employed during the eighteenth century and was confirmed by the post office act 1837 its most notorious use was perhaps the opening of mazzini s letters in 1844 3 such postal censorship became common during world war i governments claimed that the total war which was waged required such censorship to preserve the civilian population s morale from heart breaking news up from the front whatever the justification this meant that not a single letter sent from a soldier to his family escaped previous reading by a government official destroying any notion of privacy or secrecy of correspondence post censorship was retained during the interwar period and afterwards but without being done on such a massive scale 7 the us trade act of 2002 permits the opening of international mail to and from the united states by customs 8 under the border search exception to the fourth amendment of the constitution 9 this practice has been criticised including suggestions that it adds to the cost of conducting the postal service and can affect postage rates 10 the usps apparently informed congress of criticism before it passed the legislation 11 the act does prohibit reading mail incidentally included in the package or its envelope when searching for contraband 8 the intelligence authorization act of 2004 has also been said to unconstitutionally permit the opening of domestic mail 8 see also edit black chamber black room postal censorship secrecy of correspondence secret du roi references edit dwyer philip 2014 napoleon and europe abingdon uk routladge p 84 isbn 978 0 5823 1837 3 black chamber everything2 2001 01 14 retrieved 2012 12 24 1 2 chisholm 1911 kent neil 2019 01 02 the secret world a history of intelligence the rusi journal 164 1 86 93 doi 10 1080 03071847 2019 1605039 issn 0307 1847 s2cid 151126570 hélène combis abdelhak el idrissi 2017 03 24 de la gauche à la droite les cabinets noirs de la ve république in french radio france de leeuw karl 1999 the black chamber in the dutch republic during the war of the spanish succession and its aftermath 1707 1715 the historical journal 42 1 133 156 doi 10 1017 s0018246x98008292 jstor 3020898 s2cid 162387765 demm eberhard 29 march 2017 censorship international encyclopedia of the first world war ww1 archived from the original on 2014 10 14 1 2 3 u s customs opening international mail schneier com 16 january 2006 feds use border search exception to nab pedophile volokh com 2006 08 29 retrieved 2012 12 24 mininggazette com minutes of the mailers technical advisory committee united states postal service 2002 05 02 archived from the original word document on 2009 01 15 retrieved 2012 12 24 sources edit this article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain chisholm hugh ed 1911 cabinet noir encyclopædia britannica vol 4 11th ed cambridge university press p 920 external links edit back when spies played by the rules by david kahn published in the new york times a history of black chambers at t whistle blower s evidence discussion of cabinets noirs and napoleon v t e intelligence agencies of france current dgse dgsi drm drsd direction du renseignement de la préfecture de police de paris fr tracfin dnred defunct cabinet noir secret du roi deuxième bureau bcra direction générale des services spéciauxs fr dger sdece dcrg dst uclat retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title cabinet_noir oldid 1357674348 categories history of censorship privacy of telecommunications privacy postal history defunct french intelligence agencies locations in the history of espionage hidden categories articles with short description short description matches wikidata pages with french 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