Since the ring of Russian spies were exposed in the US in 2010, I've been enjoying a casual study of spy techniques and espionage technique. Here are some interesting articles.
Interesting Reads edit
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- Elizabeth Bentley
- Velvalee Dickinson
- Klaus Fuchs
- Igor Gouzenko
- Aldrich Hazen Ames - A former Central Intelligence Agency counter-intelligence officer and analyst, who, in 1994, was convicted of spying for the Soviet Union and Russia.
- James Hall III - An Army warrant officer and intelligence analyst in Germany who sold eavesdropping and code secrets to East Germany and the Soviet Union from 1983 to 1988.
- Robert Hanssen - Arrested for spying for the Soviet Union and Russia for more than 15 years of his 27 years with the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
- Earl Edwin Pitts - An FBI agent charged with providing Top Secret documents to the Soviet Union and then Russia from 1987 until 1992.
- Harold James Nicholson - A senior-ranking Central Intelligence Agency officer arrested while attempting to take Top Secret documents out of the country. He began spying for Russia in 1994.
- George Trofimoff - a retired Army Reserve colonel, charged in June 2000 of spying for the KGB and the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (or SVR) for over 25 years.
- George Kisevalter was a CIA operations officer
- Anatoliy Golitsyn is a Soviet KGB defector and author of two books about the long-term deception strategy of the KGB leadership.
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- Agent Handling
- Concealment device
- Covert agents
- Covert listening device
- Cut-out
- Cyber spying
- Dead drop
- False flag operations
- Interrogation
- Nonofficial cover (NOC)
- Numbers messaging
- One-way voice link
- Safe house
- Side-channel attack
- Silent Killing
- Steganography
- Surveillance
- Honeypot