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ACTION AGENT - THE WHO ONE WHO CONDUCTS THE CLANDESTINE OPERATION
ACTIVE COUNTER INTELLIENCE MEASURES – ARE THOSE MEASURES, WHICH SEEK ACTIVELY TO
BLOCK THE ENEMIES’ EFFORT TO GAIN INFORMATION OR ENGAGE IN ESPIONAGE, SUBVERSION,
AND SABOTAGE.
ADMIRAL YAMAMOTO - APRIL 1943, THE CRYPTANALYSTS OF THE U.S. NAVY COMMUNICATIONS
INTELLIGENCE INTERPRETED A TOP SECRET SIGNAL RELAYING THE TRAVEL OF THE ADMIRAL.
EN ROUTE HE WAS INTERCEPTED AND CRASHED IN THE JUNGLES OF BOUGAINVILLE.
AGENT IN PLACE - AGENT WHO HAS BEEN RECRUITED WITHIN A HIGHLY SENSITIVE TARGET
AKBAR - THE "GREAT MOGUL" AND WISE MASTER OF HINDUSTAN EMPLOYED MORE THAN 4,000
AGENTS FOR THE SOLE PURPOSE OF BRINGING HIM THE TRUTH THAT HIS THRONE MIGHT REST
UPON IT.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT - A RENOWNED GREEK CONQUEROR HAD HIS SHARE OF ADVANCE
INFORMATION WHEN RUMORS OF DISCONTENT CIRCULATED FROM AMONG THE RANKS OF HIS
MEN. HE WAS ABLE TO IDENTIFY THOSE DISLOYAL ONES BY ORDERING THE COMMUNICATION
LETTERS OPENED AND WAS SUCCESSFUL IN CURTAILING THE DECLINE OF ESPRIT DE CORPS
AND MORALE OF HIS MEN.
ALFRED REDL - A HOMOSEXUAL DOUBLE SPY WHO WHILE WORKING AS INTELLIGENCE DIRECT
PROOF AUSTRIA AND HUNGARY, SPIED THE RUSSIANS. HIS TREASONS ACTIVITIES WERE
DISCOVERED AND COMPELLED TO COMMIT SUICIDE. HIS SPYING LED TO THE DEATH OF OVER
500,000 AGENTS AND SOLDIERS COMBINED IN HIS 13 YEARS EPISODE AS A SPY.
ARMED FORCES INTELLIGENCE – DEALS WITH THE ARMED FORCES OF THE NATION.
BATTLE OF MIDWAY - IN JUNE 1442, THE TURNING POINT OF THE NAVAL IN THE PACIFIC, THE
VICTORY GAINED BY THE AMERICANS WAS DUE TO THE DISRUPTED MESSAGES FROM THE
IMPERIAL JAPANESE NAVY.
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY (CIA) – AMERICA - CIA IS THE LARGEST OF THE INTELLIGENCE
AGENCIES AND IS RESPONSIBLE FOR GATHERING DATA FROM OTHER COUNTRIES THAT COULD
IMPACT U.S. POLICY. IT IS A CIVILIAN INTELLIGENCE AGENCY OF THE UNITED STATES
GOVERNMENT RESPONSIBLE FOR PROVIDING NATIONAL SECURITY INTELLIGENCE TO SENIOR
UNITED STATES POLICYMAKERS. THE CIA ALSO ENGAGES IN COVERT ACTIVITIES AT THE
REQUEST OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. THE CIA’S PRIMARY
FUNCTION IS TO COLLECT INFORMATION ABOUT FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS, CORPORATIONS,
AND INDIVIDUALS, AND TO ADVISE PUBLIC POLICYMAKERS. THE AGENCY CONDUCTS COVERT
OPERATIONS AND PARAMILITARY ACTIONS, AND EXERTS FOREIGN POLITICAL INFLUENCE
THROUGH ITS SPECIAL ACTIVITIES DIVISION. IT HAS FAILED TO CONTROL TERRORISM
ACTIVITIES INCLUDING 9/11, NOT EVEN A SINGLE TOP LEVEL AL-QAEDA LEADER CAPTURED
OWN ITS OWN IN THE PAST 13 YEARS. HIGHLY FUNDED AND TECHNOLOGICALLY MOST
ADVANCED INTELLIGENCE SET-UP IN THE WORLD.
CLOSE TAIL – EXTREME PRECAUTIONS ARE TAKEN AGAINST LOSING THE SUBJECT IS
EMPLOYED WHERE CONSTANT SURVEILLANCE IS NECESSARY.
CODING - IT IS THE CHANGING OF MESSAGE FROM PLAIN CLEAR TEXT TO UNINTELLIGIBLE FORM
ALSO KNOWN AS “ENCRYPTING”.
COMMON SPIES (FTG) - RECRUITED AMONG POOR FOLK, GLAD TO EARN A SMALL SUM OR TO
ACCOMMODATE A MILITARY OFFICER;
CONTACT - ANY PERSON WHOM THE SUBJECTS PICKS OR DEALS WITH WHILE HE IS UNDER
OBSERVATION AND IDENTIFIES THE OBSERVER
CONVOY - AN ASSOCIATE OF THE SUBJECT WHO FOLLOWS HIM TO DETECT SURVEILLANCE.
COVER STORY – A BIOGRAPHICAL DATA THROUGH FICTIONAL THAT WILL PORTRAY THE
PERSONALITY OF THE AGENT HE ASSUMED, A SCENARIO TO COVER THE OPERATION.
COVER SUPPORT – AN AGENT ASSIGNED IN TARGET AREAS WITH THE PRIMARY MISSION OF
SUPPORTING THE COVER STORY.
DELILAH- A BIBLICAL PERSONALITY WHO WAS ABLE TO GAIN INFORMATION BY USING HER
BEAUTY AND CHARM. SHE WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE FALL OF SAMSON A KNOWN ISRAELITE
LEADER WHO TERRORIZED THE PHILISTINES.
DOUBLE AGENT - AN ENEMY AGENT, WHO HAS BEEN TAKEN INTO CUSTODY, TURNED AROUND
AND SENT BACK WHERE HE CAME FROM AS AN AGENT OF HIS CAPTORS.
DOUBLE SPIES (FTG) - THE LOW INFORMERS AND UNRELIABLE RENEGADES OF VALUE CHIEFLY
IN SPREADING FALSE INFORMATION TO THE ENEMY;
ECONOMIC INTELLIGENCE – DEALS WITH THE EXTENT AND UTILIZATION OF NATURAL AND
HUMAN RESOURCES TO THE INDUSTRIAL POTENTIAL OF THE NATIONS
EDWARD I - AN ENGLISH MONARCH WHO STARTED UTILIZING ENGLISH INFORMANTS
ESPECIALLY TO DETERMINE SEDITIOUS WRITINGS AGAINST THE CROWN AND IDENTIFY
GENERAL NAPOLEON BONAPARTE - "ONE SPY IN THE RIGHT PLACE IS WORTH 20,000 MEN IN
THE FIELD". HE ORGANIZED TWO BUREAU OF INTEREST.
GEORGE WASHINGTON - UNDER OATH ABOUNDS IN THE HISTORY OF EVERY NATION. GEORGE
WASHINGTON AS GRAND MASTER MOBILIZED THE FREE MASONS OF THE COLONIES AT THE
OUTBREAK OF THE AMERICAN WAR OF INDEPENDENCE.
HERBERT YADLEY - HEAD OF THE MI-8, THE FORERUNNER OF THE TOP SECRET NATIONAL
SECURITY ADMINISTRATION A.K.A BLACK CHAMBER, A CRYPTANALYTIC ORGANIZATION.
INTEGRATION- THE COMBINATION OF THE ELEMENTS ISOLATED ANALYSIS WITH OTHER KNOWN
INFORMATION RELATED TO THE OPERATION.
INTELLIGENCE (2) - IS KNOWLEDGE AND POWERFUL IT CAN PREVENT WAR AND CAUSE ONE IT
CAN HELP IN CRIME CONTROL (THERE IS CRIME) AND CRIME PREVENTION (NO CRIME).
INTELLIGENCE (3) – THE END PRODUCT RESULTING FROM THE COLLECTION, EVALUATION,
ANALYSIS, INTEGRATION AND INTERPRETATION OF ALL AVAILABLE INFORMATION
JOSEPH FOUCHE - THE FRENCH STATESMAN JOSEPH FOUCHE (1759 - 1820) SERVED AS
MINISTER OF POLICE UNDER NAPOLEON AND WAS INFLUENTIAL IN THE RETURN OF LOUIS XVIII
TO THE THRONE IN 1815.
JOSEPH PETROSINO - MEMBER, NEWYORK POLICE DEPARTMENT IN EARLY 1900, HE WAS THE
HEAD OF THE ITALIAN SQUAD. THROUGH EXTENSIVE INTELLIGENCE NETWORK, HE IS CREDITED
TO SMASH THE BLACK SOCIETY.
JULIUS CEASAR- DURING HIS TIME, THE STAFF OF EACH LEGION INCLUDES TEN
"SPECULATORS" WHO SERVED AS AN INFORMATION-COLLECTING AGENCY. THE
"SPECULATORS" WERE THE FIRST INTELLIGENCE PERSONNEL TO APPEAR DEFINITELY IN A
MILITARY ORGANIZATION. MILITARY SUCCESS OF THE ROMANS WAS AIDED BY COMMUNICATION
SYSTEM. MADE USE OF CARRIER PIGEONS, WHICH MADE POSSIBLE THE AMAZING SPEED WITH
WHICH INTELLIGENCE OF THE IMPERIAL ROME WAS TRANSMITTED. THEY ALSO EMPLOYED
CIPHERS TO ENSURE SECRECY OF COMMUNICATIONS.
LIVE DROP- REFERS TO A PLACE WHERE AGENTS OR INFORMANTS LEAVE THEIR MESSAGES TO
THE OTHER AGENTS.
LOOSE TAIL – EMPLOYED WHERE A GENERAL IMPRESSION OF THE SUBJECT’S HABITS AND
ASSOCIATES IS REQUIRED.
LOST – WHEN THE SURVEILLANT DOES NOT KNOW THE WHEREABOUTS OF HIS SUBJECT OR
THE SUBJECT HAD ELUDED THE SURVEILLANCE.
MADE – WHEN SUBJECT UNDER SURVEILLANCE BECOMES AWARE THAT HE IS UNDER
OBSERVATION AND IDENTIFIES THE OBSERVER ALSO KNOWN AS “BURNT OUT”
MINISTRY OF STATE SECURITY (MSS) – CHINA - MINISTRY OF STATE SECURITY IS THE SECURITY
AGENCY OF THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA. ARTICLE 4 OF THE CRIMINAL PROCEDURE LAW
GIVES THE MSS THE SAME AUTHORITY TO ARREST OR DETAIN PEOPLE AS REGULAR POLICE FOR
CRIMES INVOLVING STATE SECURITY WITH IDENTICAL SUPERVISION. ONE OF THE PRIMARY
MISSIONS OF THE MSS IS UNDOUBTEDLY TO GATHER FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE FROM TARGETS
IN VARIOUS COUNTRIES OVERSEAS. MANY MSS AGENTS ARE SAID TO HAVE OPERATED IN THE
GREATER CHINA REGION.
MOTIVES OF INFORMANTS: REPENTANCE – ONE WHO HAS A CHANGE OF HEART AND WISHES
TO REPORT A CRIME THAT IS PREYING ON HIS CONSCIENCE
MULTIPLE ASSIGNMENT – THE INVESTIGATOR IS TASKED TO COVER TWO (2) OR MORE OF THE
ABOVE SPECIFIC ASSIGNMENTS SIMULTANEOUSLY, IT CAN PRODUCE EXTENSIVE INFORMATION
WITH MINIMUM EXPENSES BUT MORE PRONE TO COMPROMISE.
MULTIPLE COVER - INCLUDES DIFFERENT COVER
NUMBER 13:17-32, OLD TESTAMENT (HOLY BIBLE) - MOSES SENT TWELVE (12) SCOUTS TO THE
LAND OF CANAAN WHERE HE DETECTED DIRECTED THEM TO SPY THE LAND, THE PEOPLE AND
THEIR LOCATION AND THE NATURE OF THEIR CITIES.”
OPEN SOURCES – 99% OF THE INFORMATION COLLECTED ARE COMING FROM OPEN SOURCES
OR OBTAINED FROM OVERT OPERATION.
PENETRATION AGENT - AGENT WHO HAVE REACHED TO THE ENEMY, GATHER INFORMATION AND
ABLE TO GET BACK WITHOUT BEING CAUGHT.
POLICE INTELLIGENCE – THE END PRODUCT RESULTING FROM THE COLLECTION, EVALUATION,
ANALYSIS, INTEGRATION AND INTERPRETATION OF ALL AVAILABLE INFORMATION REGARDING
THE ACTIVITIES OF CRIMINALS AND OTHER LAW VIOLATORS FOR THE PURPOSE OF AFFECTING
THEIR ARREST, OBTAINING EVIDENCE, AND FORESTALLING PLAN TO COMMIT CRIMES.
POLITICAL INTELLIGENCE – DEALS WITH DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND RELATION OF
GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS; BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE GOVERNMENT. GOVERNMENT
STRUCTURES. PUBLIC ORDER AND SAFETY. SUBVERSION & INTELLIGENCE AND SECURITY
ORGANIZATION
PORT BOUNDARY AND TRAVEL SECURITY – HAS TO DO WITH THE APPLICATION OF BOTH
MILITARY AND CIVIL SECURITY MEASURES FOR COUNTERINTELLIGENCE CONTROL AT POINT OF
ENTRY AND DEPARTURE, INTERNATIONAL BORDERS AND BOUNDARIES.
PROCURER OF FUNDS - AGENT WHO OBTAIN MONEY WHEN NEEDED FOR OPERATIONAL USE.
PROPAGANDIST - AGENTS WHO MELD THE ATTITUDES, OPINIONS, AND ACTIONS OF AN
INDIVIDUAL GROUP OR NATION.
REINTEGRATION BACK INTO NORMAL DUTY - AGENTS WORK THEIR OWN HOURS, THEY ARE
REMOVED FROM DIRECT SUPERVISORY MONITORING AND THEY CAN IGNORE THE DRESS AND
ETIQUETTE RULES. SO THE RESETTLING BACK INTO THE NORMAL POLICE ROLE REQUIRES THE
COMING OFF OF OLD HABITS, LANGUAGE AND DRESS. AFTER WORKING SUCH FREE
LIFESTYLES, AGENTS MAY HAVE DISCIPLINE PROBLEMS OR EXHIBIT NEUROTIC RESPONSES.
RESEARCH AND ANALYSIS WING (R&AW OR RAW) – INDIA - RESEARCH AND ANALYSIS WING IS
INDIA’S EXTERNAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY. IT WAS FORMED IN SEPTEMBER 1968, AS IT WAS
EVIDENT THAT A CREDIBLE INTELLIGENCE GATHERING SETUP WAS LACKING. ITS PRIMARY
FUNCTION IS COLLECTION OF EXTERNAL INTELLIGENCE, COUNTER-TERRORISM AND COVERT
OPERATIONS. IN ADDITION, IT IS RESPONSIBLE FOR OBTAINING AND ANALYSING INFORMATION
ABOUT FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS, CORPORATIONS, AND PERSONS, IN ORDER TO ADVISE INDIAN
FOREIGN POLICYMAKERS. UNTIL THE CREATION OF R&AW, THE INTELLIGENCE BUREAU
HANDLED BOTH INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL INTELLIGENCE.
SAFE HOUSE - REFERS TO A PLACE WHERE AGENTS MEET EACH OTHER FOR PURPOSES OF DE-
BRIEFING AND REPORTING.
SAFE HOUSE KEEPER - AGENTS WHO MANAGES AND MAINTAINS A SAFE HOUSE FOR
CLANDESTINE OPERATIONS LIKE MEETINGS, SAFE HEAVENS, TRAINING, BRIEFING, AND
DEBRIEFING.
SECRET (RED) - UNAUTHORIZED DISCLOSURE OF THIS DOCUMENTS OR THINGS MAY PUT AT RISK
THE NATION SECURITY, CAUSE SERIOUS INJURY TO THE REPUTATION OF THE NATION, THE
REPRODUCTION OF WHICH WILL BE CONSIDERABLE COST AND LABOR, OR SIGNIFICANT DELAY
SECRET INTELLIGENCE SERVICE (SIS) MI-6 – GREAT BRITAIN - THE SECRET INTELLIGENCE
SERVICE (SIS) SUPPLIES THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT WITH FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. IT
OPERATES UNDER THE FORMAL DIRECTION OF THE JOINT INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE (JIC)
ALONGSIDE THE INTERNAL SECURITY SERVICE (MI5), THE GOVERNMENT COMMUNICATIONS
HEADQUARTERS (GCHQ) AND THE DEFENSE INTELLIGENCE (DI). IT IS FREQUENTLY REFERRED
TO BY THE NAME MI6, A NAME USED AS A FLAG OF CONVENIENCE DURING THE SECOND WORLD
WAR WHEN IT WAS KNOWN BY MANY NAMES. THE EXISTENCE OF MI6 WAS NOT OFFICIALLY
ACKNOWLEDGED UNTIL 1994.
SIR SAMUEL LUKE - CHIEF SCOUT OF OLIVER CROMWELL WHO WAS ABLE TO DETHRONE KING
CHARLES I IN BRITISH CIVIL WAR OF 1640'S. SIR SAMUEL LUKE WAS SAID TO BE INDUSTRIOUS
IN SNOOPING ON THE ENEMY.
SOCIAL ASSIGNMENT - THE AGENT WILL GAIN ACCESS TO THE SUBJECT BY GOING TO THE
DIFFERENT HANG OUT PLACES OF THE SUBJECT AND GATHER INFORMATION LIKE KNOWING
HOW TO DRINK SOCIALLY WITHOUT GETTING DRUNK.
SPIES OF CONSEQUENCES (FTG) - COURTIER AND NOBLEMEN, STAFF OFFICERS AND KIND RED
CONSPIRATORS ALWAYS REQUIRING A CONSIDERABLE BRIBE OR BAT
STRONG ARM - AGENT WHO IS MADE TO PROVIDE SPECIAL PROTECTION DURING DANGEROUS
PHASE OF CLANDESTINE OPERATIONS.
SUN TZU- “THOSE WHO KNOW THEMSELVES AS WELL THEY KNOW THEIR ENEMIES WILL NEVER
SUFFER DEFEAT". IN HIS BOOK "ART OF WAR".
SUPPORT AGENT - AGENT WHO IS ENGAGED IN ACTIVITIES WHICH SUPPORTS THE CLANDESTINE
OPERATIONS AND OR THE ACTION AGENT IN HIS OPERATIONS
SURVEILLANCE – IS THE COVERT, DISCREET OBSERVATION OF PEOPLE AND PLACES FOR THE
PURPOSE OF OBTAINING INFORMATION CONCERNING THE IDENTITIES OR ACTIVITIES OF
SUBJECTS.
TOP SECRET (GREEN) – TOP SECRET DOCUMENTS CALLS FOR THE UTMOST DEGREE OF
PROTECTION. UNAUTHORIZED REVELATION OF THIS MATERIALS AND INFORMATION WOULD
CAUSE EXTREMELY SEVERE DAMAGE TO THE NATION, POLITICALLY, ECONOMICALLY, OR
MILITARILY.
WORK ASSIGNMENT - THE AGENT WILL BE EMPLOYED WHERE THE SUBJECT WORK TO ACQUIRE
INFORMATION. THE AGENT MUST KNOW HIS WORK AND FOCUS HIS MIND SET AND HABIT TO HIS
WORK ASSIGNMENT OR GETTING EMPLOYED WHERE THE INVESTIGATOR CAN OBSERVE THE
ACTIVITIES OF THE SUBJECT AT HIS PLACE OF WORK.