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This type of asset is mostly useful to reasonably safely and cheaply spy on unhardened sources, mostly of economical, industrial and of social nature. One nation that is known to use this type of asset is China. These operatives do not require an explicit and focused act of treason, there are many ways that foreign citizens can gather useful intelligence, for instance in the academic field and corporative structure. The only differences between a cut-out and the general citizen is that he is actively attempting to gather intelligence information for its handler. The cut-out is simply an intermediary between a "professional" spy and the source of information, someone that has access or will have an high probability of having access to relevant intelligence. Assets can also be targets for coercion, intimidation or termination.įor instance a confidential informant in the police infrastructure is an asset, of the police agency and of the controlling officer. To some degree an agency is as valuable (to the opposition and allies) as the number of assets it holds. They can be anything from information to any object or person. Assets are intrinsically disposable and tradable. The spy is not an asset of the agency, it is an operator.
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Understanding the stakes Īn asset is something the agency (or the spy) sees as valuable. Recruitment Usual Covers or Parallel Functions ĭiplomatic functions as a cover has probably been the first to be utilized to permit the assess, monitor and subvert targets and their assets, both in the relation the interest of states but also for economic advantage.Īmbassador, Attaché (diplomatic, scientific), Scientific field explorer, Investor, TouristĮxplore the examples and extend into the possibilities that they open and why they are preferred. It is also not uncommon that most diplomatic functionaries, to be or act as spies, gathering information and advancing the interests of their own nations in foreign lands, or even more complex actions under diplomatic protection. From the simple actions of sabotage (as a saboteur) to subversion (as an agent provocateur) to act with prejudice against civilian assets or engage in national/internationally criminal actions (or non-acknowledge agents) that is having a non-official cover ( NOC) or belong to a recognized but illegal organization (a terrorist or criminal). Note that other functions could also indicate (or be related to) some form of spy activity. There are also other terms that have the same meaning as spy, like operative, covert agent, hood, spook, ghost.
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The term " his men" may be used to indirectly indicate that the spy is working for a specific controller/handler.Ī spy should not be a creature of habits, easy to track and predict, unless that serves a purpose. The superior of a spy is the controller or handler, often a senior agent himself, this is also indicative that the spy is part of a pyramidal organizational structure or better yet an inverted tree, with the low ranking or those not fully vetted by the agency are at the bottom and where each branch is not fully aware of the others. Most spy networks resemble a top down tree structure where information is mostly shared only to the root operative, not to equal or lower level spies. A spy should trust no one, sensitive information should only be transfered across the spy network on a need to know basis and only the agency approved parties. In the spy world the phrase "only the paranoid survive" gets an heightened meaning. One operative that is proficient in spy-craft. The agent of a secret organization is often generically reffed as a spy.