User:Dorislessing

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

 * RECRUITING

Figures

 * 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.

Organisations

 * Secret Service
 * KGB
 * MI6
 * CSIS
 * CIA
 * FBI
 * Camp X

Definitions

 * Espionage
 * Agents in Espionage
 * Steganography
 * Cryptography

Methods

 * 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

Tech

 * Laser Microphone
 * Fiber Optic Microphone
 * The Thing Listening Device
 * The Burran Device

INT

 * UKUSA Agreement
 * ECHALON