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- Slang for use of men or women in sexual situations to intimidate or snare others.
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- Birdwatcher
- Black Bag Operation
- Black Operation
- Blowback
- Blown
- Bona Fides
- Brush Contact
- Bump
- Car Pick Up
- Chicken Feed
Trust the British to come up with such an eccentric, understated nickname for an intelligence officer.
In a black bag operation, you break into a building to collect intelligence. You might have to pick locks, clone keys, crack safes. Survey and photograph. Plant listening devices. The name comes from the black bags burglars often use to carry their tools.
“It wasn’t us.” That’s the official line on black ops. These are missions so sensitive they have to be deniable. The people at the top must be able to say they never knew. So if you’re discovered, it’ll look like you were working for some private group or organization. You’re on your own.
If something goes wrong with your covert operation, the consequences for those responsible may be disastrous. That’s blowback. A term coined by the CIA.
You need to move fast. Get out now, while you can. Why? Your mission or identity has been fully discovered. You’re blown.
Good faith? No thanks. This is espionage. If you want me to believe you are who you say you are, or that you have the clearance you claim, I’ll need cold, hard proof. I’ll need credentials. I’ll need your bona fides.
Some of the most important meetings in espionage last less than a second. A brush contact is barely contact at all: a moment’s jostle on a busy platform, two strangers passing on the street. Just enough to exchange something - a word, an envelope, a key. It’s so swift and subtle, even a trained surveillance team can miss it.
You need to find a target of interest in a public place and manufacturing a reason to get him/her talking to build up the relationship. It's time to organize a bump, all part of the CIA Field Tradecraft course taught at the Farm.
You’re waiting on a dark street and hear a gentle rumbling. A vehicle rolls up slowly, and swift as a shadow, you’ve vanished inside. The meeting – a car pick up – begins.
Minor intelligence of no operational worth that an agent or double agent passes to a foreign intelligence service to prove their value.
The three terms intelligence, intelligence information, and information need to remain distinct. Intelli- gence by itself refers to the meaning of, or a conclusion about, persons, events, and circumstances which is derived from analysis and/or logic.
Aug 27, 2016 · In my latest novel, The Carrington Prophecy, published in November 2015, I use spy terms liberally. Here is a glossary of some spy jargon and after that is an excerpt from The Carrington Prophecy showing that terminology in action.
Espionage: the use of clandestine efforts to acquire classified information; the unauthorized transmittal of classified information to a foreign nation or entities with the intent to harm the U.S. or aid a foreign power. Eyes-Only: a designation signifying who may read a specific, classified document.
Espionage: Intelligence activity directed toward the acquisition of information through clandestine means and proscribed by the laws of the country against which it is committed. Spying in the popular sense. EUCOM: European Command
COUNTER-ESPIONAGE - spying directed against an enemy's spy system, such as by recruiting agents in foreign intelligence organs. COUNTER-INTELLIGENCE - the activity of preventing the enemy from obtaining secret information.
