One way to keep your operations secret is to act through a front organization, usually a business, that no one knows you control. By going gray: looking and acting in a way that blends you into your surroundings. That attractive stranger smiling at you from across the bar: possible romance, or a honey trap ready to seduce secrets out of you? They may even have been sent by your own side, to test your loyalty.
The KGB named their male seducers ravens and the females are swallows. Honey - but not so sweet. Spying is often about personality not physicality. Most soldiers are stationed on the front line or behind their own lines. Not you. As an intelligence officer you infiltrate behind enemy lines, usually to gather intelligence for your spymasters or to help an agent escape danger.
This is your bread and butter. Intelligence is valuable, often secret information. And countries will go to great lengths to protect or steal it. The word can also refer to the world of espionage as a whole.
You work for an intelligence service, gathering or analyzing intelligence with the ultimate goal of helping your government and nation. In secure, encrypted systems sometimes the same key - usually a string of letters and numbers - locks and unlocks your data.
And sometimes the sender and recipient have different keys, which makes life even safer. If you need a legend, you must be going in deep.
What to do if news gets out about your operation? You could try a limited hangout: Shutting down further inquiry by giving away a portion of the truth and making an apology. You have secrets or money to exchange with an agent. How do you do it? Sometimes the safest thing is to meet face-to-face. Very different from a dead drop. Why spy?
You might want to get paid. Perhaps you were blackmailed into it. Or maybe it makes you feel important. Most agents are motivated by one or more of these: Money, Ideology, Coercion, Ego. In short, MICE. A microdot is an image or a whole page of text shrunk down to the size of a period, so as to escape notice by the enemy.
See also steganography. You are employed by an intelligence service, but you are passing secrets to the enemy. Often moles are recruited before they even work for their target service, making them even harder to spot than most agents.
Luckily you know Morse code. You send each letter as a unique combination of dots and dashes - maybe flashing a torch, or tapping it out over a radio. Information can leak in all sorts of directions.
So keep a tight lid on it. Tell people exactly what they need to know - and no more. A shortwave radio station used to broadcast coded messages to an operative in the field. All you have to do is tune your radio and know how to interpret the code. The emperor of encryption, the one-time pad is unbreakable if used properly. Only you and the receiver have the pad, or key, needed to encrypt and decrypt the message.
To read the message, an enemy would have to get hold of the pad. OSINT is intelligence collected from overt, publicly available sources. Mainly the internet nowadays. What are we here to do?
Recruit someone? Recover intelligence? Go after something new? That means hiding your IP address, not leaking any personal information, and keeping all your conversations private and not logged.
Your plaintext is your message. The thing you want to say, before it gets scrambled with a cipher. Fake intelligence. You supply false information. The perfect trade, for you at least. Biased information put out to promote a cause or point of view. So you each say a pre-agreed recognition phrase - a snippet no one else would find strange. Small talk with big meaning. The CIA sometimes calls recognition phrases paroles.
The signal must be distinctive. You may want your potential agent to turn against their country. Recruitment is often the final step in a process, after spotting, targeting, cultivating and assessing. Some secrets have to stay secret. Even declassified documents from decades ago may have redactions.
Officers use a variety of approaches, based on the subject. This depends on the specific individual to some extent. But some general ways to cultivate trust include using empathy, building a rapport perhaps through shared friends, interests or dreams, or even shared frustrations , and showing vulnerability. Honesty being open about who you are and what you want may also be used—or, perhaps, false honesty.
Intelligence officers often operate abroad under some form of official cover, perhaps as diplomats in an embassy. Others operate without the protection of their government and must create a convincing cover that explains their presence and activities in a country—a businessperson, perhaps, or a student.
Face-to-face meetings can be impractical, even deadly—especially if spies are caught red-handed passing or receiving classified information or carrying spy equipment. Methods include secret writing such as invisible ink or tiny microdots or sending and receiving secure messages using special technology often concealed or even disguised to look like everyday objects. But we know that spying was taking place much earlier than that.
They are diplomatic correspondence, recorded on clay tablets, that discuss among other things intelligence and espionage. No, George Washington was not a spy. During the American Revolutionary War, General Washington fully understood the power of espionage to outsmart and outmaneuver vastly superior forces. He employed spies, relied heavily on intelligence, and made us of codes and ciphers. He even hired Dr. It all started in , when Washington wrote a letter to Nathanial Sackett, a New York merchant active in counterintelligence activities.
That network would become the Culper Ring—and it helped steer the colonial army to victory. They undercut a number of intelligence operations and the effect of hunt for them—also known as a molehunt—led to growing paranoia in the UK and US intelligence communities. Find out more about the Cambridge Five in the Turncoats and Traitors exhibit.
Some of them had been there for years. For more than a decade, the FBI ran Operation Ghost Stories, keeping an eye and an ear on the agents and waiting for the right moment to close in. Depends on the movie.
There are elements of truth in spying that we see on TV and film, read in spy novels, and find in computer games. Find out more about spies in popular culture, and the difference between fact and fiction, in the License to Thrill exhibit.
So, so many. You can see many of them throughout our exhibit space. They range from the super high tech to the very low tech, but every one of them tells its own story. Cyber espionage involves using computer systems to steal classified information, often government secrets.
Those secrets might be sensitive data related to foreign policy, military technology, or even personal information about individuals. Espionage has been carried out for millennia, but technology has made it possible for hackers sometimes sponsored by governments to steal secrets quickly, silently, and with relatively low risk of being caught.
Intelligence agencies, however, are increasingly aware of the cyber threat and are developing new counter measures. Find out more about cyber espionage in the Cyber: The New Battlefield exhibit. During times of war, espionage against a nation is a crime under the legal code of many nations as well as under international law, and cyber espionage is no different.
During peacetime, however, it can be a lot trickier to figure out when espionage crosses the line into illegality—all the more so for cyber spying. Where, in fact, does territorial sovereignty begin and end in cyberspace?
These are just some of the questions being debated in international law regarding cyber espionage. Uncovering curvilinear relationships between conscientiousness and job performance: How theoretically appropriate measurement makes an empirical difference. Journal of Applied Psychology, 99 4 , Much ado about grit: A meta-analytic synthesis of the grit literature.
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