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C l a u d i e (lipsofpoison) wrote,
@ 2009-08-04 14:58:00

for ourtrueselves

Types of Espionage
A spy is a person employed to obtain such secrets. Within the intelligence community, asset is a more common usage. A case officer, who may have diplomatic status (i.e., official cover or non-official cover) supports and directs the human collector. Cutouts are couriers who do not know the agent or case officer, but transfer messages. In larger networks, the organization can be complex, with many methods to avoid detection, including clandestine cell systems. Often the players have never met and are sometimes unaware that they are participating.

- A dead drop or dead letter box, is a location used to secretly pass items between two people, without requiring them to meet. Spies have been known to use dead drops, using various techniques to hide items (such as money, secrets or instructions) and to signal that the drop has been made. The system involves using signals and locations which have been agreed in advance. These signals and locations must be common everyday things to which most people would not give a second glance.

- Steganography is the art and science of writing hidden messages in such a way that no one apart from the sender and intended recipient even realizes there is a hidden message.

- Official cover is a term used in espionage to refer to operatives who assume positions in organizations with diplomatic ties to the government for which they work.

- Interrogation is not necessarily to force a confession, but rather to develop sufficient rapport as to prompt the source to disclose valuable information. Interrogations may involve torture, which is judged to be ineffective at producing accurate information but is effective in getting false confessions which might be useful for political reasons for the officer and organization in question by raising the number of successful investigations.

- Cryptography is the practice and study of hiding information.

- Industrial espionage describes activities such as theft of trade secrets, bribery, blackmail, and technological surveillance.

- Concealment devices or diversion safes are used to hide things for the purpose of secrecy or security. Books, pens, candles, umbrella's cans, jars, coins, paintings, frames, diversion safe (A device whereby a safe-looking safe is left open but has a hidden compartment), Electrical outlet (A fake electrical outlet, which can be pulled out from the wall and which contains a hidden compartment for storage) or paintings are some of the examples.

- Black Ops/Black Operations are a division that is funded by the government's black budget. Operations that are highly classified, even hidden from congressional oversight. Black Ops missions often fall into the deniability category, where no government will claim responsibility for the action, or where responsibility is shifted to another actor in the case of a "false flag" operation. The methods used in black operations are also used in unconventional warfare and includes actions like assassinations, espionage & sabotages.

- False flag operations are covert operations conducted by governments, corporations, or other organizations, which are designed to appear like they are being carried out by other entities.

- Non-official cover (NOC) is a term used in espionage (particularly by national intelligence services) for agents or operatives who assume covert roles in organizations without ties to the government for which they work.

- Black Bag Operations (or "black bag jobs") are covert or clandestine surreptitious entries into structures to obtain information for Human Intelligence operations. This usually entails breaking and entering into denied areas. Some of the tactics, techniques and procedures associated with Black Bag Operations are: lock picking, safe cracking, key impressions, fingerprinting, photography, electronic surveillance (including audio and video surveillance), mail manipulation (flaps and seals), forgery and a host of other related skills.

- Traditionally, a provocateur is a person employed by an enforcement body to act undercover and entice or provoke another person to commit an illegal act. More generally, the term may refer to a person or group who provokes another to perform a wrong or rash action, the deliberate purpose being to incite wider conflict or harm.

- A canary trap is a method for exposing an information leak, that involves giving different versions of sensitive information to each of a group of suspects and seeing which version gets leaked.

- Compartmentalisation of information means to limit access to information to persons who directly need to know certain such information in order to perform certain tasks. This means certain things are only known by some people so that they do not have an emotional reaction, rather than a professional one.

- A cutout is a mutually trusted intermediary or channel of communication which facilitates the exchange of information between agents. See dead drop.

- Disinformation is the deliberate dissemination of false information. It may include the distribution of forged documents, manuscripts, and photographs, or propagation of malicious rumors and fabricated intelligence.

- The Double Cross System or XX System is the deception operation of using enemy agents to broadcast mainly disinformation to their controllers.

- Forgery is the process of making, adapting, or imitating objects or documents (see false document), with the intent to deceive.

- A front organization is any entity set up by and controlled by another organization, such as intelligence agencies, criminal organizations, banned organizations, religious or political groups, advocacy groups, or corporations.

- Communication interception is the act of retrieving another person's mail for the purpose of ensuring that the communication is not delivered to the recipient, or to spy on them.

- "The Purloined Letter Approach" is the general name of a plan to hide something in plain view. False flag, where the action is flaunted and meant to be seen, but to appear as if done by another party; while the Purloined Letter Approach merely unfocuses the observer's attention, and does not provide another focus for the observer.

- The Big Lie, where the intent is to make the observer look and listen to the main lie rather than the little ones.

- A Parthian shot, where the observer is distracted with an even larger event, and thereby doesn't see the object to the hidden - at least momentarily.

- A walk-in agent is an individual who voluntarily offers to conduct espionage. Specifically, a "walk-in" is an agent or a mole of a government who literally walks into an embassy or intelligence agency without prior contact or recruitment.

- A clandestine cell structure is a method for organizing a group in such a way that it can more effectively resist penetration by an opposing organization. The Death Eater cells are Black Ops and hidden around their terriories. A covert cell structure is tantamount to a contradiction in terms, because the point of the cell structure is that its details are completely hidden from the opposition.

- A sleeper agent is someone who is programmed via brainwashing, torture and other various methods to carry out an act then promptly forget about it. The sleeper is put back into normal society wish faked memories of the time they were at the hospital and no idea they have been programmed. The sleeper agent then resumes normal life until they are triggered by a series of words (hence the game name) and then, sometimes in a trance like state and with complete drive, carry out the act they have been programmed to and then clean up after themselves. They then forget about the action. Occationally, things will go wrong and little things will come into the persons memory but are often dismissed.

- Code terms are used to identify people who don't know eachother or to describe a situation.

For instance, one person could sit next to another and ask them what the weather is like and the specific person would say something specific, like "it is better here than it is in Amsterdam."

Or in the latter case, when writing to someone, you could say "don't forget to feed the fish" as a code for saying you were being watched.

- Signs are left as messages to different people as a way of showing them something i.e. a red mark on a lampost implies there is enemy surveillance from here on in.

- Often torture can be used in interrogation, particularly by the Black Ops cells.

Psychological
Blackmail
Humiliation
Shunning
Exploitation of phobias e.g. mock execution, leaving arachnophobes in a room full of spiders
Being subjected to interrogation for long periods
Extended sleep deprivation
Extended solitary confinement
Partial or total sensory deprivation
Goading
Physical
violence
curses/hexes/etc
knife patterns drawn on the skin (can be seen as psychological depending on the marking)
bindings/restricted movement
bone breaking
branding
burning
strangling
cutting
removal of nails
breaking bones
shock spells
mock drowning
flagellation
force feeding
starvation
removal of body parts i.e. fingers
sexual assult
hanging from wrists or ankles for long periods of time
stress positions
water torture
tooth extraction

- Brainwashing (also known as thought reform or as re-education) consists of any effort aimed at instilling certain attitudes and beliefs in a person — beliefs sometimes unwelcome or in conflict with the person's prior beliefs and knowledge. This is often done using torture techniques to lower the persons guard while bombarding them with images, sounds and other propoganda designed to 'cure' them.