Do You Know Early Non State Level Spying Actions?

Non state level spying would be something like during the napoleonic wars, when nathan myer, rothesschild, used this amazing network of carrier pigeons to figure out what happened at waterloo before anybody else in london. If you want to know what's going on in bavaria, and you have someone who is tight with the rulers of bavaria and hangs out with them in court, then that's worth a thousand just middle class people. And if you because they have access to restricted areas and restricted conversations restricted people. This is ultimately all about access and lee, that’s right?