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SpyLingo

A Compendium Of Terms Used In The Intelligence Trade

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Table Of Contents

INTRODUCTION 4 ALPHA 5 Ab - Ai 5 Al - As 6 Au - Av 7 Bravo 8 Ba - Bl 8 Bl - Bre 9 Bri - Bu 10 CHARLIE 11 C3 - Can 11 Car - Chi 12 Cho - Cl 13 Cn - Com 14 Comp - Cou 15 Cov 16 Cu 17 DELTA 18 Da - De 18 De - Di 19 Di - Dru 20 Dry - Dz 21 Echo 22 Ea - Ex 22 Ey 23 FOXTROT 24 Fa - Fi 24 Fl - For 25 Fou - Fu 26 GOLF 27 Ga - Go 27 Gr - Gu 28 HOTEL 29 Ha - Hoo 29 Hou - Hv 30 31 Ia - In 31 Int -It 32 JULIETTE 33 KILO 34 LIMA 35 MIKE 36 Ma - Mic 36 Mi - Mos 37 Mos - Mu 38 NOVEMBER 39 Na - Nig 39 Nis - Nu 40 OSCAR 41 Ob - Osa 41 Osi - Ov 42 PAPA 43 Pa - Pic 43 Pig - Pri 44 Pro - Ps 45 QUEBEC 46 ROMEO 47 Ra - Res 47 Res - Rz 48 SIERRA 49 Sa - Ser 49 Set - Sl 50 Sm - Sp 51 Sp - St 52 Su - Sz 54 TANGO 54 Ta - Tr 54 Tu 55 UNIFORM 56 VICTOR - WHISKEY 57 X-RAY - YANKEE - ZULU 58

INTRODUCTION The word itself, although once used to describe the corpus of knowledge one must possess to practice A Secret Eye some given trade, has now become the To learn more fascinating stu on term mostly used to describe the tricks historical events, its people, and a of the spy's trade, even making archaic lot of real-life spy stu like their the more descriptive term “spycraft”. methods and vernacular.

What you are learning from SpyLingo Discover an exciting world are real-world terms used by spies belonging mainly to the , an alliance of intelligence agencies between the , the , , and New Zealand. You may also nd them in countries where English is a second or third language, as in India. The Cold could be to blame for this, as it exposed the purposefully dark world of to the through spy ction; most notably that of John le Carré.

July 2019 — Spy Lingo — A Secret Eye AGENT / - A person obtaining intelligence for an intelligence service, ALPHA under control of a CASE OFFICER.

Ab - Ai AGENT-IN-PLACE - A - German intelligence employee who is inuenced to organization from 1866 to 1944. cooperate with a foreign country to change national policy, A deepcover ACCESS AGENT - A talent spotter, agent with infuence among the performs for recruiters. members of a target group / An asset in place inside an organization government. Instead of defecting, the that can provide personal and agent is now working for two employers behavioral information on people of instead of one.. interest. AGENT-OF-INFLUENCE - A person who ACORN - Slang for someone who is works within the government or media performing a function within of a target. intelligence. - For example a ACTION DIRECTE - This was an cop or a spy posing as member of a underground group in . subversive group and enticing riots etc.

ACTIVE MEASURES - (активные AIR AMERICA - This was a CIA front мероприятия) A term used by Russian company. intelligence services, from the to FSB, for political warfare that aims to AIS - Was 's intelligence inuence the course of world events by agency. any means, from to . AIVD - The secret service of the . Formerly called BVD. ADFGVX CIPHER - Introduced by the Germans in , it is based on an ancient idea of associating letters with positions on a grid.

July 2019 — Spy Lingo — A Secret Eye AMERIKA / AMERIKKKA - Underground Al - As metaphor for a fascist USA reminiscent of Nazi . AL AMN AL-KHAS - 's service. AMES, ALDRICH - Spy ALLIANCE BASE - Alliance Base is the ANALYSIS / SPY ANALYSIS - Drawing cover name for a secret Western conclusions about raw information by Counterterrorist Intelligence Center assessing its signicance and by (CTIC) that was allegedly established in collating it with other information. 2002 in . According to a Washington Post article, Alliance Base is funded by ANGLETON, JAMES - Spy the CIA and its French equivalent, the DGSE. It allegedly hosts ocers from ASALA - Underground group in Armenia. Great Britain, France, Germany, Canada, Australia and the United States and is A.S.I.O. - Australian Security Intelligence used for intelligence exchange and Organization. Its role is analogous to operational planning. that of MI5 in Britain or the FBI in the USA. , The - Ocial name is Directorate "A" of the FSB Special A.S.I.S. - Australian Secret Intelligence Purpose Center that acts under the Service, a department of A.S.I.O. direct control and sanction of 's top political leadership. Available for ASSASSINATION - Assassination is a extended duties, for paramilitary sudden, usually unexpected act of operations, and for covert operations, committed for impersonal both domestically and internationally. reasons, typically with a political or military leader as its target. AMAN - 's central military . See DIRECTORATE ASSAULTER - A member of an assault OF . team responsible for making a forced entry.

July 2019 — Spy Lingo — A Secret Eye Au - Av AUM SHRINKYO - Underground group in with expertise in germ and chemical warfare.

AUSTRALIAN SIGNALS DIRECTORATE - The Australian government agency responsible for foreign , support to military operations, cyber warfare, and information security. See DSD.

A.V.B. - Hungarian security service, the Allami Vedelmi Batosag.

July 2019 — Spy Lingo — A Secret Eye BETTY BUREAU - FBI slang for a female support person who has worked for the Bravo FBI her entire career.

Ba - Bl BfV - Federal Oce for the Protection of BABYSITTER - Bodyguard. the Constitution, the Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz (und BACKSTOP - An arrangement between Terrorismusbekämpfung). Operates in two persons for the express purpose of concert with the LfV (Landesämter für substantiating a cover story or alibi. Verfassungsschutz) at the state level.

BAG JOB - Surreptitious entry, break and BIOGRAPHICAL LEVERAGE - enter. info.

BAGMAN - An agent who pays spies and BIRDWATCHER - A spy in British bribes authorities. intelligence slang.

BANG AND BURN - Demolition and BLACK BAG JOB - Secret entry into a operations. home or oce to steal or copy materials. BAKER, Josephine - Allied spy during WWII. BLACK FLAGGED - An agent or intelligence ocer who is to be BAKIN - Former name of Indonesia's interrogated and summarily shot if security service. Now called Indonesian apprehended. State Intelligence Agency (BIN) / - BERIA, Lavrentiy - Spy that is not attributable to the organization performing them BATFE - US security service, the Bureau and involves a signicant degree of of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and . Explosives, also known as the ATF or ATFE.

July 2019 — Spy Lingo — A Secret Eye BLUE-ON-BLUE - friendly re, Bl - Bre inadvertent hostile engagement between allies - A method that is deniable by (and not BLUNT, Antony - Spy traceable to) its source, mostly a usually consisting of character BND - Germany's federal intelligence assassination. agency, the Bundesnachrichtendienst. It is the largest of its kind in the world. BLAKE, George - Spy BỘ CÔNG AN - Vietnam's Ministry of BLIND DATE - The rst meeting with an Public Security. unknown person. BOMBA - In WWII, a Polish electro- BLOWBACK - A deception planted magnetic device created to help abroad by an intelligence agency to decipher Enigma cipher machine mislead another country that returns to settings; early precursor to the modern the originating nation with bad computer. consequences. BONA FIDES - Proof of a person's BLOWN / BURNED - When a case ocer claimed identity. or agent is compromised by discovery of their true identity, or the discovery of a BOX - The MI5, British slang for this clandestine activity's real purpose. service.

BLOWFISH - A mathematical algorithm BRAINWASHING - Refers to the concept for computer of text that that the human mind can be altered or purportedly can only be cracked by controlled by certain psychological brute force if the pass-phrase is techniques. unknown. BREVITY CODES - A system of code- words used by members of a team.

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BRICK AGENT - An FBI agent who works Bri - Bu inside a eld oce. See STREET AGENT. BRIDE AGENT - An agent who acts as a BURNED / BLOWN - When a case ocer courier from a case ocer to an agent in or agent is compromised by discovery of a denied area. their true identity, or the discovery of a clandestine activity's real purpose. BRUSH CONTACT / BRUSH PASS - A clandestine, momentary contact BURST TRANSMISSION - Electronically between two agents who are passing condensed and possibly encoded secret information, documents, or equipment. messages that sound just like ordinary static. BRIDGE AGENT - An agent who acts as a courier from a case ocer to an agent in BUST-OUT - A leak of electronic a denied area. communications from a secure enclosure before they are encrypted by BRUTE FORCE ATTACK -A cryptanalytic the code machine. computer attack that can, in theory, be used to to decrypt any encrypted data, either through nding the password or an exhaustive key search. Information-theoretically secure cryptosystem, such as ONE TIME PADS can foil a BRUTE FORCE ATTACK.

BSS - Belgium's security service.

BUCAR - BUreau CAR. An FBI car.

BURN NOTICE - Ocial interagency notice stating that a given source or asset has been deemed unreliable, and that all info provided by such should be "burned".

July 2019 — Spy Lingo — A Secret Eye The number of spies increased to ve CHARLIE upon further investigation with the discovery of (cryptonym: C3 - Can Liszt) and some other, lesser players. C3I / C4I - Command, Control, Communications and Intelligence - CAM-CAR - A vehicle equipped with a Command and Control refers to the concealed camera used for clandestine ability of the military commander to casing and surveillance operations. direct and coordinate his forces. Communications are required to enable CAMP X - Canada's WWII secret domestic this coordination. Intelligence is the training base associated with the MI6. knowledge relevant to the coordination of forces. Surveillance, Target - A canary trap is a Acquisition and Reconnaissance are method for exposing an information methods of obtaining intelligence. Tends leak, that involves giving dierent to be known as C4I when computers are versions of sensitive information to each added to the mix. of a group of suspects and seeing which version gets leaked. CALL-UP - A police term meaning a situation where a SWAT team has CANNON - A thief who steals back the deployed. inducement oered by the spies to an , defector or turncoat. CAIRNCROSS, John - Spy Probably borrowed from sports, as in a billiard shot that strike two balls with the / CAMBRIDGE FOUR / cue ball. CAMBRIDGE SPY RING - UK spy ring that passed information to the Soviets during World War II until the early 1950s. Four members of the ring were originally identied: (cryptonym: Stanley), Donald Duart Maclean (cryptonym: ), (cryptonym: Hicks) and (cryptonyms: Tony, Johnson).

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CHASE CAR - Security detail or Car - Chi bodyguard vehicle that follows the subject. CARABINIERI - Italy's federal anti- terrorist police. CHEATING - Command of the target from in front of the target during - Computer program oating box surveillance as opposed to designed by the FBI to collect electronic static surveillance. May be performed by communications from a specic user pavement artists or wheel artists. See targeted in an investigation. COMMAND OF THE TARGET. CASE OFFICER - Sta ocer of an CHEKA - Russian founded intelligence agency, also called an in 1917 by the Bolshevik party, OPERATIONS OFFICER, AGENT HANDLER forerunner of the KGB. The Cheka's or CONTROLLER. methods were beyond the pale. CASUALS - Casual observers to a CHICKEN FEED - Low grade information surveillance exercise; nonparticipants oered to a , used to visible in the area. establish him as someone with access to intelligence. CENTER - headquarters of the KGB. CHIEF OF STATION / STATION CHIEF - The ocer in charge at a CIA station, CELLAR (THE) - The room in the cellar of usually in a foreign capital Lubyanka Prison where Russian intelligence executed traitors prior to CHILDS, Julia - WWII British intelligence WWII. Underground corridors are operative who later became a well- rumored to have connected the Cellar to known chef. an industrial sized meat grinder connected to the Moscow sewers to get CHILDS, Morris (Moishe Chilovsky) - Spy rid of the bodies.

CHAMBERS, Whittaker - Spy

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CIRCULAR REPORTING - A situation in Cho - Cl which information appears to be corroborated by multiple sources, but in CHOKEPOINT - A narrow passage-such reality comes from only one source. as a bridge, , or Metro station- used as a surveillance or counter- CIRCUMSTANTIAL INFERENCE - In surveillance tool for channeling the , refers to a clue that opposing force or monitoring their points to the possibility that a subject passage may wittingly be a tool of the opposition. CHOWKIDAR - (Urdu) A gatekeeper - Actions that commonly used in the Asian are meant to be undetected. Subcontinent for guarding the entrances to walled compounds. CLANDESTINE SERVICE - The operational arm of the CIA responsible for classic CHRISTIANS IN ACTION - Slang for the espionage operations, usually with CIA human assets. Also known as the Directorate of Operations (DO) and CIA - A U.S. intelligence agency formerly the Directorate of Plans (DP). CID - The Clandestine Imaging Division - An of the Oce of Technical Service of the intelligence operation designed to CIA. Responsible for providing technical remain secret. support to clandestine agent operations in the form of photography, secret CLOAK - A sensitive and writing, and video surveillance. deception illusionary technique rst deployed by the CIA in Moscow during CIPHER / CODE - A system, usually an the mid-1970s. algorithm, for disguising a message by replacing its letters with other letters or CLEAN - Unknown to enemy intelligence numbers or by shuing them.

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COMMANDO - A civilian, military, or Cn - Com paramilitary combat group using irregular tactics. CNT - Crisis Negotiation Team. Used by police in situations involving hostage- COMMAND OF THE TARGET - Active takers or barricaded suspects. Their true visual observation of the subject of the role is not to negotiate, but rather to surveillance operation. Used during obtain intelligence to facilitate an assault pedestrian and vehicle surveillance. by the SWAT team, and to distract the suspect to divert his attention from the COMMO, COMMUNICATIONS - The coming assault. various forms of secure electronic and non-electronic communications used in COBBLER - Specialist who creates false clandestine operations. passports, visas, diplomas and other documents. COMMO PLAN - The various secret communications methods employed CODEBOOK - A list of plain language with a particular agent (ex: , words opposite their codeword or code Numbers stations, etc.) number.

COMMIT - A surveillance operative COHEN, Morris (two-guns) - Spy performing the commit function is watching a location to determine the COLOSSUS - An electronic device that direction that the target takes (or helped solve German cryptograms; the "commits" to) world’s rst electronic computer.

COMINT - COMmunications INTelligence, usually gathered by technical interception and code breaking, but also by use of human agents and surreptitious entry.

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CONSUMER - Person or an organization Comp - Cou on the receiving end of intelligence COMPARTMENTALIZATION (vertical, obtained by spies. See PRODUCT. lateral, double) - Parceling of information to limit access to CONTROLLED AGENTS - People who are information only on a "need to know" fully aware of what they are doing and basis. Vertical denies information up or are following the directions of their CIA down the chain of command, and lateral HANDLER. denies information from peer groups. Double is spoong the original group CONTROLLER - Ocer in charge of who held the information into believing agents. See HANDLER. the operation has ended when it has simply moved to a new compartment COOKED INTELLIGENCE - Distorted intelligence passed on to a double COMPROMISED - When an operation, agent, containing some truth. asset, or agent is uncovered and cannot remain secret. COUNTER-ESPIONAGE - Spying directed against an enemy's spy system, such as COMPUTER FORENSICS - Used in by recruiting agents in foreign espionage to retrieve intelligence from intelligence organs. stolen laptops or PCs. COUNTER-INTELLIGENCE - The activity of - Any one of a preventing the enemy from obtaining variety of innocuous devices used to secret information, including but not secretly store and transport materials limited to spy-catching. relating to an operation.

COURIER - One who delivers documents, CONFIDENTIAL INFORMANT (CI) - money, etc. Human resource that provides information whose identity should COUSINS - Slang for CIA operatives. always remain secret. see INFORMANT.

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CRYPTOLOGY - The science of secret Cov - Cs writing in all its forms using CRYPTONYMS and CODEWORDS. COVER - Persona, profession, purpose, activity, ctitious image maintained by CRYPTONYM - ; crypt or an undercover operative. Must be crypto for short, are always capitalized consistent with the agent's background (ex: FUNFNAGEL). GT and CK, both and presence in the target area. components of a CIA cryptonym, are prexes to code names COVER STOP - A stop made while under used to identify the nature of the surveillance that provides an ostensibly clandestine source. In this case, GT innocent reason for a trip. Funfnagel would have referred to a Soviet agent while CK Funfnagel, to an COVERT ACTION AGENT - A spy who east East European agent. works to reorient an entire nation's politics in favor of his country. CS GAS - A form of tear gas scientically known as the compound 2- COVERT ACTION OPERATION - An chlorobenzalmalononitrile (also called o- operation designed to aect foreign chlorobenzylidene malononitrile, used aairs; may be lethal or non-lethal. by police, SWAT teams, and the military. COVERT CELL / CLANDESTINE CELL - A CSEC -( E method for organizing a group of people stablishment Canada) Canada's national to more eectively resist penetration by cryptologic agency. Responsible for an opposing organization. Each people foreign signals intelligence (SIGINT) and in the cell know the identities of only the protecting Canadian government other people in their cell. electronic information and communication networks. COVERT OPERATION - Those actions for which the government will deny CSIS - (Canadian Security Intelligence S knowledge or responsibility. ervice) Canada's primary national intelligence service.

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Cu CULPER SPY RING (the) - Intelligence gathering operation of General George Washington.

CUT-OUT - A cut-out is a mutually trusted intermediary, method or channel of communication that facilitates the exchange of information.

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DDIS - Danish DELTA Service. DDO - The Deputy Director of Da - De Operations of the CIA, and head of all DAGGER - Starting in the 1970s, the CIA HUMINT operations; formerly the DDP. is rumored to use a quick disguise kit called the “Dagger”, the contents of DDP - The Deputy Director of Plans. see which reportedly t into a small paper DDO. bag and is rumored to completely transform a person in less than 5 DEAD DROP / DEAD-LETTER BOX - A minutes, to the point you could never secret location where materials can be recognize them. Even today, its exact left for another party to retrieve. contents are classied secret. DEAD MAN'S SWITCH - A switch that DANGLE - A person sent by the automatically brakes a subway train if intelligence agency of his or her own the operator's hand relinquishes control country who approaches an opposite of said switch, as in the case of his intelligence agency in the hope of being sudden . In military operations, it recruited as a spy in order to allow a can also launch a if one double agent operation, for the purpose launch site stops communicating with all of intelligence collection or the others, and thus is presumed to disinformation. have been bombed.

DARPA - Defense Advanced Research DEAD TELEPHONE - A signal or code Projects Agency (USA). passed with the telephone without speaking. DATA RECOVERY - Euphemism for the back door built into all US encrypting DECOY - Subterfuge meant to distracts programs. adversary's attention.

DCI - The Director of Central Intelligence. DEEP-COVER AGENT - Agent under permanent cover.

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DIA - A US intelligence agency, the De - Di Defense Intelligence Agency. This initialism is also used in the same way DEFECTOR - A person who has by Canada, India, New Zealand, Nigeria, renounced his/her country of citizenship South Korea, and with a dierent meaning by the Italians as the Direzione DEFENSE INTELLIGENCE Investigativa Antimaa, a law- HEADQUARTERS - A signals intelligence enforcement agency. agency of the Japanese government.

DICKINSON, Velvalee - Spy DÉPARTEMENT DE SURVEILLANCE ET DE SÉCURITÉ (DSS) DIRECTOR - The cable address of CIA - Central hub of Algerian security Headquarters. services.

DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE DEZINFORMATSIYA (Disinformation) - - (DNI) is the United States government The Soviet and Russian term for Cabinet-level ocial — subject to the Disinformation operations: operations authority, direction, and control of the designed to pass false information to POTUS — required by the Intelligence the enemy (ex: RT, Sputnik in Russia, and Reform and Prevention Act of Breitbart, Infowars, Limbaugh and Fox 2004 and, among other tasks, serve as News opinion shows in the US). head of the United States Intelligence Community. DGI - 's intelligence agency.

DGSE - France's intelligence agency.

DGSI - (Direction générale de la sécurité intérieure) A French , somewhat like the FBI.

DHS - Department of Security - USA agency.

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DIVERSION - Distracts adversary's Di - Dru attention. Could be a DECOY. DIRECTORATE OF MILITARY DO / DODO - The Directorate of INTELLIGENCE - Also known as Aman, is Operations of the CIA and the Israel's overarching intelligence agency Directorate of Operations Duty Oce, and its largest component. Along with where all espionage communications and Shin Beth, it represents the worldwide are managed from CIA backbone of Israeli intelligence. It Headquarters. incorporates the cyber warfare branch, , the Havatzalot Program, an DOPE BOOK - A notebook kept with a elite training program, and has its own sniper rie for the purposes of recording reconnaissance unit, the the atmospheric conditions, range, which is based on Britain's SAS and said lighting, and resulting hit or miss of to be equivalent to the USA's Delta every shot red. Force. This name is also shared with Ireland, Nepal, UK, India and . DOPPELGANGER - See LOOK-A- LIKE DIRTECH - The headquarters cable DOUBLE AGENT - A spy who pretends to address of the Oce of Technical be working against one country but who Service. is in fact working for that country’s opponent; a conduit for Disinformation. DIRTY TRICKS - Covert sabotage carried out by a security service or intelligence (THE) - This episode agency, ranging from pranks to became a prime example of miscarriage assassination. of justice, collusion, fabrication and . Alfred Dreyfus was DISCARD - An agent whom a service will falsely convicted of passing secrets to permit to be detected and arrested so as the enemy. Evidence was found that to protect more valuable assets. proved him innocent, but the army suppressed it. DLB - Acronym for dead-letter box. See DEAD DROP / DEAD-LETTER BOX. DRUMMOND, Nelson - Spy

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DUBOK - Serbo-Croatian word, Dry - Dz reportedly also a Russian term for a dead-letter box. See DEAD DROP. DRY CLEAN - Actions agents undertake to determine if they are under DUKES, Paul - Spy surveillance.

DUQUESNE SPY RING (THE) - The largest DRY CLEANING - Active counter espionage operation case in the history surveillance and anti- surveillance of the United States that ended in 33 against pavement and wheel artists. convictions. The FBI uncovered this NAZI spy ring operating within the United DSD - Australia's signal intelligence States during World War II and was run agency, Defence Signals Directorate, by Frederick Joubert Duquesne, a South similar to Britain's GCHQ. African who became a naturalized American citizen in December 1913. The DSIS - (Danish Security and Intelligence S ring was established in order to gather ervice) is Denmark's information that could be used in the and intelligence agency. See PET. event the United States entered the war. DS - (Darzhavna Sigurnost - Държавна DZERZHINSKY, Felix - Spy сигурност) Bulgaria's security service.

DZERZHINSKY SQUARE - Historic site in DSS - (Département de Surveillance et Moscow of Lubyanka Prison, longtime de Securité) Central hub of Algerian headquarters of the Soviet security security services. organs, including Cheka, NKVD, and KGB and now the FSB, successor of the KGB. DSS - (Defense Security Service) is a Underground corridors are rumored to federal security agency of the United have led from the Cellar to an industrial States Department of Defense. sized meat grinder connected to the Moscow sewers to get rid of the bodies. DST - France's security service. Also a See CELLAR. Moroccan security service.

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ESPIONAGE - Clandestine collection of intelligence by a non-domestic Echo intelligence agency.

Ea - Ex ESS - Acronym for Environmentally E&E - Evade & Escape. Stable Strategy, a concept used in strategic game-theory. EARS ONLY - Material too secret to commit to writing. ETA - An underground group in .

EEI - Essential Elements of Information; EVOC - An acronym for Emergency an outline to be used for collecting Vehicle Operation Course, taught at the intelligence on a particular topic. FBI academy in Quantico.

ELINT - ELectronic INTelligence; derived EXCOM - The Executive Committee of from the interception of radiation the CIA, made up of the deputy directors sources such as radars. and chaired by the executive director.

ELLIPTICAL CONVERSATION - Says one EXDIR - EXecutive DIRector. thing but means another. EXECUTIVE ACTION – Assassination. EMERALD CITY (The) - The code name the Special Surveillance Team used for EXFILTRATION OPERATION - A the CIA Headquarters Building during clandestine rescue operation designed their exercises. to bring a defector, refugee, or an operative and his or her family out of ENIGMA - A cipher machine used by the harm's way. Germans to encode messages during WWII. EXPATS - Citizens of one country who live in another. ESCORT / ESCORT OFFICER - The operations ocer assigned to lead a defector along an escape route.

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Ey EYE (The) - The person on the surveillance team who has the target under visual observation at any given moment.

EYES ONLY - Documents that are intended for the eyes of one specic person only.

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FIBONACCI SYSTEM - A system of non- carrying addition used for one-time pad FOXTROT codes.

Fa - Fi FILLING - The act of inserting material in FALN - An underground group in Puerto a dead drop. Rico. FILM LOOP - A loop of lm used to FALSE FLAG RECRUITMENT - project or record a sequence of images Impersonation by a spy while recruiting on a continuous basis. an informant, defector, agent, etc. FINESSE - Sensitive developed FARM (The) - CIA's secret domestic by the CIA using a Hollywood consultant training base. and contractors.

FBI (The) - Federal Bureau of (First CD) - Investigation. U.S. domestic The foreign intelligence arm of the KGB, counterintelligence service and federal now known as the SVR. agency. FISA - Foreign Intelligence Surveillance FDS - One of 's security services. Act (U.S.).

FEDERAL INTELLIGENCE SERVICE - The FISU - Foreign Intelligence Service of Bundesnachrichtendienst is the foreign (Служба зовнішньої розвідки intelligence agency of Germany, directly України - (SZR) Sluzhba zovnishn’oyi subordinated to the Chancellor's Oce. rozvidky Ukrayiny). See BND. FIVE EYES (The) - An alliance of FERRETS - Technicians who do a fair bit intelligence agencies between the of ferreting: locating and removing United States, the United Kingdom, hidden and cameras. Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

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FOLLOW - A surveillance team is Fl - For executing a follow when they are shadowing a moving target. See FLAPS AND SEALS - The tradecraft FLOATING BOX. A follow begins when involved when making surreptitious the target exits the stakeout box and a openings and closings of envelopes, surveillance operative attains command seals, and secure pouches. of the target. See COMMAND OF THE TARGET. FLASH - The highest precedence for CIA cable communications. FOOTFALL DETECTOR - Vibration sensor designed to detect walking humans. FLIP - A U Turn made by the target during a vehicle surveillance operation. FOOTS (FEET) - Members of a surveillance team who are working on FLIR - Forward-Looking InfraRed device. foot and riding as passengers in a surveillance car. FLOATER - A person used one time, occasionally, or even unknowingly for an FOREIGN SERVICE NATIONALS (FSN) - intelligence operation. Local help hired by embassies for miscellaneous tasks. They are FLOATING BOX - A method of sometimes intended, or at least surveillance where a team of operators acknowledged, as a sort of liaison with establishes a containment box around opposite security services. Not to be the target wherever he/she goes. trusted with any access to sensitive info. FMLN - Frente Farabundo Marti para FORENSICS - The use of science and Liberacion Nacional, an underground technology to investigate and establish group in El Salvador. facts in criminal or civil courts of law.

FOREST (The) - New location of KGB headquarters outside of the Moscow Ring Road.

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It's "family tree" is as follows : Cheka Fou - Fu (1917-1922), NKVD (1934-1943), NKGB (1941 and 1943-1946), MGB (1946-1954), FOUR-BAGGER - Disciplining an errant KGB (1954-1991), and nally the FSB agent by FBI headquarters, consisting of (1995-present) censure, transfer, suspension, and probation. FUCHS, Klaus - Spy. FRA - Sweden's military signals - Impersonation during intelligence agency. electronic communications. Derived from the German phrase for " FREQUENCY FLOODING - A technique game". that allows an ordinary telephone to become a . FUNNY PAPER - Slang for the counterfeiting and forged documents FRIEND - Slang for an agent, informant, section of an intelligence agency or or providing information to a security service. HANDLER.

FRIENDS - General slang for members of an intelligence service, specically British slang for members of the Secret Intelligence Service.

FRONT - A legitimate-appearing business created by an intelligence agency or security service to provide cover for spies and their operations.

FSB - Russia's , successor to the KGB's Second Chief Directorate (internal counterintelligence).

July 2019 — Spy Lingo — A Secret Eye GHOST SURVEILLANCE - Extremely discreet and seemingly omnipresent GOLF surveillance, working mostly out of the Ga - Go view of the target. GAD - The Graphics and Authentication GHOUL - Agent who searches obituaries Division of the Oce of Technical and graveyards for names of the Service, responsible for operational deceased for use by agents. disguise and false documentation capabilities for the CIA. GIA - An underground group in Algeria.

GAMBIT - A highly sensitive disguise GID - 's main intelligence developed for the CIA with the help of organization. their Hollywood consultant. It was rst used in Indochina in 1971. GONE TO GROUND - To take evasive action in order to avoid further GCHQ - Britain's SIGINT agency, attention. To "lay low." Government Communications Head Quarters. GOTTLIEB, Sidney - Spy

GDGS - General Directorate of General GOUZENKO, Igor - Spy. Security (Direction Générale de la Sûreté ’s GOVERNMENT COMMUNICATIONS .(اﻟﻤﺪﯾﺮﯾﺔ اﻟﻌﺎﻣﺔ ﻟﻸﻣﻦ اﻟﻌﺎم ,Générale main intelligence agency. There are SECURITY BUREAU (The) - (GCSB) New many others. Zealand's analog to GCHQ, GCSB is charged with promoting New Zealand's (The) - The Geheime national security by collecting and Staatspolizei (literally : Secret State analyzing information of an intelligence Police) was the secret police of Nazi nature. Germany and German-occupied Europe.

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GTsST - Main Center for Special Gr - Gu Technology, a unit of the GRU (Russian military intelligence) that is highly GRANVILLE, Christine - Spy. involved in cyberattack programs, including the enabling of inuence GRAYMAIL - Threat by a defendant in a operations. Suspected perpetrators of trial to expose intelligence activities or the NotPetya and South Korean other classied information if Olympics hacks amongst others, and of prosecuted. trying to disguise their attacks as another country's misdeed. GREAT SEAL BUG (The) - Also known as the Thing. A highly successful Soviet GUAN-XI - An access agent for 's mission in which a listening device was intelligence agency. implanted within a copy of the Great Seal of the United States which was GUOANBU - One of China's security presented as a plaque to the United services. States to the , W. Averell Harriman. GUILLAUME AFFAIR (The) - Espionage scandal. GREY ZONE - Part of the ve terrains of warfare : land, sea, air, space, and now GUSTAV WEBER - Hitler's double, used cyberspace. by the Fuhrer's bodyguards to stymie the Allies as to his whereabouts. Shot in GRU - Russian military intelligence, the the forehead immediately after Hitler's Glavnoye Razvedyvatelnoye Upravleniye, death. equivalent to the US's DIA. It is now also known as G.U.

ֵשׁירוּת) GSS - General Security Service (Sherut ha-Bitaẖon haKlali - ַהִבּ ָיטּחוֹן ַהְכָּלִלי Israel's security service. See SHIN BETH.

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HISS, Alger - Spy

HOTEL HOLE (The) - The special security enclosure where the KGB's Kapelle Ha - Hoo device was kept. HALL, Ted - Spy HONEY POT - A female agent using - An underground group in romance to compromise a target. Mata Palestine (now in power) Hari, Raven, lady, femme fatale.

HANDLER - A case ocer who is HONEY TRAP - Slang for use of men or responsible for handling agents in women in sexual situations to intimidate operations. or snare others.

HANSSEN, Robert - Spy HOLLIS, Roger - Spy

HARD MAN - An experienced operative HOOLIGAN TOOL - A specialized tool who can survive in a hostile much like a crowbar, developed by re environment and who has killed. departments for prying open doors and windows. Also used by SWAT teams. HARD TARGET - A surveillance target who is actively maintaining and HOSPITAL - Russian slang for prison. may not reveal that he/she has detected the surveillance team. HOSTILE / HOSTILE SERVICE - Terms used to describe the organizations and HARI, Mata (Margaret Gertrude activities of the "opposition services," Zelle) - Spy aka "the enemy."

HEZBOLLAH - An underground group in HOSTILE RECRUITMENT - Recruitment by Lebanon, alleged to have operating units threat or force of an uncooperative in Latin America with links to major drug informant, mole, or agent-in-place dealers.

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Hou - Hv HOUGHTON, Harry Frederick - Spy. See PORTLAND SPY RING.

HOUSEKEEPERS - The auditors and nancial guardians of the Circus.

HUMINT - INTelligence collected from HUMan sources (HUMan INTelligence).

HUNTING PACK - Slang for surveillance team.

HVA - East German foreign intelligence service.

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INDUSTRIAL ESPIONNAGE - Espionnage for and by business players, but also by INDIA a country's ocial agencies vis à vis Ia - In foreign interests. IAKHBAL - Israeli police unit that ghts INFILTRATION - The secret movement of organized . an operative into a target area with the intent that his or her presence will go ICBM - An acronym for instant calm undetected. breath method, a way to overcome the ight- or-ght reex (panic). Also INFORMANT - A legitimate member of a reduces hyperventilation. target group providing intelligence to the surveillance team. Can be can be ICBM - InterContinental Ballistic Missiles. called upon to testify in court. Capable of international nuclear assaults from almost any range. - Acquisition, use or denial of information, modern ILD - One of China's security services. propaganda through , degradation of the opposition's ILLEGAL - An intelligence ocer information. operating in a foreign nation without the protection of . INNOCENT POSTCARD - A postcard with an innocuous message sent to an ILLNESS - Russian slang for someone address in a to verify the under arrest. continued security of an undercover operative. IMINT - Acronym for IMage INTelligence. The collection and analysis of images INIS - (Iraqi National Intelligence Service Iraq's main (ﺟﻬﺎز اﻟﻤﺨﺎﺑﺮات اﻟﻮﻃﻨﻲ اﻟﻌﺮاﻗﻲ - collected by or aerial photography. intelligence organization.

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INQUISITORS - Interrogators responsible Int -It for debrieng members of MI6. - A trained INVESTIGATIVE SPECIALIST - The FBI's member of an intelligence agency, an name for a surveillance operative. employee on salary. (vehicle or foot) INTERNET POLICE - A generic term for IRA - An underground group in Northern policing the Internet in a number of Ireland. Has existed in various countries. Their role is to carry out forms/names since 1916. online , release online propaganda, and also to monitor and ISTIKHBARAT ASKARIA - Libyan military manipulate the online . intelligence. (The) - ITAC - Acronym for International Also called IRA and Glavset (Russian: Terrorist Assessment Center, located in Агентство интернет-исследований), is Washington D.C. based in and is engaged in online inuence operations on behalf of Russian business and political interests.

INTERPOL - International police body that coordinates the intelligence gathering and investigative activities of member police forces.

INTERROGATION - Is a type of interviewing of friendlies or ennemies. May involve a diverse array of techniques, ranging from developing a rapport with the subject, to repeated questions, to sleep deprivation or, in some countries, torture.

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JULIETTE JANITORS - The operations sta of the Circus.

JARKING - Bugging a weapons cache, often rendering weapons unusable.

JEDBURGHS - OSS and SOE term for teams clandestinely dropped into Europe before D-Day to help resistance groups.

JIHAZ AMN AL DAOULA - 's security service.

JOE - A deep-cover agent.

JRA - Japanese , was an underground group in Japan.

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KGB - The Soviet Union's all-powerful intelligence and security service during KILO the Cold War. In 1995, the KGB became KANT, Noor Inayat - Spy. the FSK, and was then reorganized as the FSB by . KELL, Vernon - Spy. K-LINE - SVR internal security and KELLEY INVESTIGATION - Brian Kelley investigations section. was a veteran CIA agent and spy hunter who worked for the agency for 22 years KŌANCHŌSA-CHŌ - Japan's after another 20 years in the U.S. Air national intelligence and security Force counterintelligence. Despite his agency. See PSIA. experience and talent, Kelley was suspected of being a Soviet spy and was KOMPROMAT - Romanized Russian word investigated for more than two years by for "compromising material". This the FBI. material, real or forged, can be used as a threat to blackmail targets into loyalty, KENPEITAI (The) - It was both a or made public in order to destroy said conventional and a secret target. Used against foreign targets or police force. Carried out intelligence and internally as part of the SISTEMA. activities, recruited and ran spies, treated Allied captives with KUCZYNSKI, Ruth - Spy. extreme brutality. (1881-1945)

KEYLOGGER - A software or hardware device or program used to capture the keystrokes any actions of a computer user, often without their knowledge.

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LINK DIAGRAM - Connections being LIMA analyzed in a complex police investigation or counterespionage case. L-Pill (Lethal Pill) - A poison pill used by See PROBLEM-SOLVING MATRIX. operatives to commit suicide. Could be a capsule, ampule, or tablet. LLB - An acronym for live-letter box, an address used to receive communication LADY - Honey pot - See SWALLOW, to be forwarded to an intelligence HONEY POT. agency. See DLB.

LAKAM - One of Israel's intelligence LUCY SPY RING (The) - German Anti-Nazi agencies (Ministry of Defense). information network that operated out of . A better way of LE CARRÉ, John - Spy, Author. describing it would be a series of inter- connected networks operating in several LEGEND - A spy's well-prepared and countries with the goal of bringing about credible made-up identity, usually the downfall of the Nazi regime. supported by documents and memorized in detail. LODY, Carl - Spy.

LETTERBOX - A person who is acting as a LONETREE, Clayton - Spy. go-between. See CUT-OUT. LONSDALE, Gordon - Spy. LfV - (Landesämter für V erfassungsschutz) A state-level security LOOK-A-LIKES - Decoys used to confuse agency in Germany, working with the hit squads and surveillance teams. BfV, the Federal Oce for the Protection of the Constitution.. LSD - An acronym for d-lysergic acid diethylanide, a hallucinatory drug LIMITED HANGOUT - A partial admission discovered in 1943 by Dr. Albert of wrongdoing, with the intent of Hofmann, a researcher at Switzerland's shutting down further inquiry. Sandoz , a pharmaceutical manufacturer.

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MAY, Alan Nunn - Spy.

MIKE Subsequently monopolized by the CIA for its MKULTRA project that developed Ma - Mic methods for secretly controlling people. (The) - General Investigation Directorate (aka al-Mabahit and al- - Honeypot, femme fatale. Ammah), a Saudi secret police force. Surveillance, intel gathering, beatings, MBR - One of Russia's intelligence torture (even children), and killings. agencies, disbanded in December 1993 and replaced by the FSK, which MACLEAN, Donald, Spy - The escape ultimately became the FSB. from Britain by and Guy Burgess is one of the most mysterious MERCURY FULMINATE - An initiating and confounding in the annals of agent for detonating PETN, or espionage. It was a stunning event that Pentaerythritol tetranitrate, the most rocked the government and began a exlosive substance known and one or series of mole hunt throughout the the main ingredients of Semtex. See intelligence world. PETN.

MASINT - Measurement and Signature MI5 - The British domestic INTelligence; a form of technical counterintelligence service; ocially collection that uses signatures that do known as the Security Service. not t into the traditional scope of IMINT and SIGINT. MI6 - The British foreign intelligence service; ocially known as the Secret MASKIROVDA - Russian name for Intelligence Service. deception techniques designed to fool US spy . Recently used by MICE - An acronym for money, ideology, India's counterintelligence agency to compromise, and ego - the usual conceal nuclear testing from the CIA. motives for spying. Some say an S for sex should be added, thus making the acronym SMICE.

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MOLE - Also known as a "penetration Mi - Mos agent","deep cover agent" or "", is a lomg-term agent of one MILF - Moro Islamic Liberation Front, a organization sent to penetrate an terrorist organisation in the Philippines.. opposite secrets-rich environment or intelligence agency, generally by gaining MILLER, Richard - Spy. employment in sensitive areas. One of the many terms popularized by John Le MIN/MAX - A concept in strategic game- Carre. theory.

MONTENEROS - An underground group MINISTRY OF STATE SECURITY (MSS) - in Argentina. Intelligence agency and non- of the People's Republic MOSCOW RULES (The) - Set of rules for of China. Counter-intelligence, foreign agents developed in Cold War Moscow. intelligence and political security. Every new "embassy staer" had them memorized when he arrived. MIT - Millî Istihbarat Teskilati. Turkish National Intelligence Organization. It 1. Assume nothing. supposedly co-operates with both 2. Never go against your gut. American and Russian intelligence 3. Everyone is potentially under agencies. opposition control. 4. Do not look back; you are never MKULTRA - US research program. completely alone. Project MKUltra, also called the CIA mind 5. Go with the ow, blend in. control program, is the code name given 6. Vary your pattern and stay within to a program of experiments on human your cover. subjects, at times illegal, designed and 7. New itemLull them into a sense of undertaken by the United States Central complacency. Intelligence Agency. Innocents died in 8. Do not harass the opposition. those experiments. See Sidney Gotlieb. 9. Pick the time and place for action. 10. Keep your options open.

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Mos - Mu MOSSAD - One of Israel's intelligence agencies, noted for its expertise in wet aairs. Literally translated as "institute".

MSS - Ministry of State Security in China, , and .

Arabic term for (ﻣﺨﺎﺑﺮات) - Mukhabarat intelligence, as in intelligence agency.

ﻣﺨﺎﺑﺮات) - MUKHABARAT el-Jamahiriya was the national intelligence (اﻟﺠﻤﺎﻫﯿﺮﯾﺔ service of under Muammar Gadda.

MUSIC BOX - Slang for a clandestine radio.

MUSICIAN - Slang for a clandestine radio operator.

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NEUROLINGUISTICS - A branch of psychology used by intelligence agencies NOVEMBER and security services to covertly manipulate unsuspecting human Na - Nig targets. NAKED - A spy operating without cover or backup. NEUTRON BOMBARDMENT - Used by security services like Britain's MI5, NAICHO - One of Japan's intelligence America's FBI, Germany's BfV, and agencies. France's DST to detect microdots and invisible writing in postal mail. Originally NARCOTHERAPY HYPNOSIS - CIA developed by the Atomic Weapons interrogators use hypnosis to force Research Establishment in Britain for regression in the prisoner to make him use by MI5. believe he is talking to his spouse. NEW ZEALAND SECURITY INTELLIGENCE NATGRID - (NATional Intelligence GRID) SERVICE - (NZSIS or SIS) is New Zealand's is the integrated intelligence grid primary national intelligence agency, connecting databases of core security responsible for national security agencies of the Government of India. (including counterterrorism and counterintelligence) and foreign NCSC - National Cyber Security Centre, intelligence. an organisation of the UK government that provides advice and support for the NICHOLSON, Harold - Spy. public and private sector in how to avoid threats. Its parent NIGHTCRAWLER - A talent spotter who organisation is GCHQ. Ireland also has a prowls bars and nightclubs looking for like organism called the NCSC. government. employees, military personnel, etc. who can be compromised using booze, drugs, or sex. See TALENT SPOTTER.

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NUGGET - British term for the bait Nis - Nu (money, political asylum, sex, or career opportunity) oered to a potential NIS - Norway's foreign Intelligence defector. Service.

NUMBERS STATION - NITROUS OXIDE - An anesthetic inhalant station characterized by broadcasts of used to render sleeping targets formatted numbers at regular times on unconscious during surreptitious entry designated frequencies, which are by goon squads. believed to be addressed to intelligence ocers operating in foreign countries. NON- (NOC) - An operative who assumes covert roles NURSEMAID - Russian term for the without ocial sanction, also known as security service ocer who "illegal" agent. Does NOT have accompanies delegations to other diplomatic immunity and thus, if caught, countries to prevent anyone from may be subject to severe criminal defecting. punishment up to, and including, execution.

NSA - US SIGINT intelligence agency and security service, the .

NSS - (National Intelligence Service - Държавна агенция Разузнаване -Durjavna Agencia Razuznavane) Bulgarian national intelligence service.

NSTL - FBI's national security threat list.

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OKHRANA - Secret police under Russian OSCAR tsars 1881-1917. ONE-TIME PAD - Strings of random Ob - Osa numbers for singular, one-time use as a OBS - (Obavestajna Bezbednostna key in enciphering and deciphering Služba) Croatia's intelligence agency. messages. the proper use of a one-time pad renders a message mathematically OFFENSIVE PENETRATION OPERATION unbreakable. - Inltration of an agent into a target group or organization. OP - Observation Post.

610 OFFICE (The) - A Chinese extra OPEN-SOURCE - Intelligence gained from judicial intelligence agency, under the public materials. command of the Politburo, with the purpose of carrying out surveillance, OPERATION GOLD (also known intel gathering and ultimately destroying as OPERATION STOPWATCH by the the Falun Gong. Carried out spying on British) - A joint 1950′s American-British Falun Gong organisations the world operation which was funded by the over, notably in the United States, United States and involved creating a Canada and Australia. Since 2003, it's secret tunnel half a kilometer long which role has been expanded to more varied entered the Soviet-occupied zone in East forms of social control and intelligence. Germany.

OFFSITE - A covert site or facility situated OSA - Ocial Secrets Act. Legislation away from a eld oce. that protects ocial information and state secrets relative to national OGPU - The Joint State Political security. Directorate (also translated as the All- Union State Political Administration and Unied State Political Directorate) was the secret police of the Soviet Union from 1923 to 1934.

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Osi - Ov OSINT - Open Source INTelligence. Intelligence information derived from publicly available sources such as government reports, nancial reports, books, movies or realistic TV shows such as "".

OSS - Oce of Strategic Services; the U.S.'s WWII intelligence, sabotage, and subversion organization. Was at rst dubbed by some "Oh So Secret," "Oh Such Snobs," “Oh So Social”.

OSTER, Hans - Spy.

OUTRIDER - A wheel artist responsible for ensuring that the target does not get outside the oating box of surveillance vehicles. See FLOATING BOX.

OVERT TARGET - Deliberately to draw attention and drain the resources of an intelligence agency or security service. Occasionally a DECOY.

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PET - (Politiets Efterretningstjeneste) Danish Security and Intelligence Service, PAPA or DSIS.

Pa - Pic PETN - Pentaery-thritol tetranitrate, a PARALLEL-LINE / INCIDENTAL- plastic explosive favored by intelligence CAPACITANCE - A method of telephone, agencies and security services. See telex, and communications MERCURY FULMINATE. that is virtually undetectable. PFLP - A Marxist–Leninist underground group in Palestine. - Passwords to identify intelligence personnel to each other. PGP - Pretty Good . An open- source encryption program. PATTERN - The behavior and daily routine of an operative that makes his PHOTINT - PHOTographic INTelligence, or her identity unique. usually involving high-altitude reconnaissance using spy satellites or PAVEMENT ARTIST - Outdoor aircraft. surveillance specialist operating on foot. PHILBY, Kim (Harold A. R.) - Spy PEEP - Photographer. PICKET SURVEILLANCE - Focuses on PELTON, Ronald - Spy times and places when target is likely engaged in activities of interest to the PENKOVSKY, Oleg - Spy surveillance team. Also called chokepoint surveillance. Named after PERIMETER SURVEILLANCE - Used to the openings in a picket fence. alert the surveillance team when the target enters or leaves a specic area. PICKUP - When the target of a surveillance operation is rst spotted inside the stakeout box.

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PLAYBACK - To provide false information Pig - Pri to the enemy while gaining accurate information from him or her. PIG - Russian intelligence term for . POCKET LITTER - Items in a spy's pocket (receipts, coins, theater tickets, etc.) that / JOINT DEFENCE FACILITY add authenticity to his or her identity. PINE GAP - Global communications interception base. Run jointly by POLLARD, Jonathan - Spy Australia, the CIA, the NSA and the NRO. It is a contributor to the NSA's global POLYAKOV, DMITRI FYODOROVICH - interception eort, which included the High level Russian mole and a Soviet ECHELON program. The unclassied Major General working for the USA. covert term for the NSA facility at Pine Blown by . Gap is RAINFALL.

PORTLAND SPY RING (the) - Soviet PINHOLE CAMERA - Video camera with operation which took place around ber-optic lens attachment. Portland, England during the late 1950′s until 1961, aiming to obtain information PITTS, Earl Edwin - Spy. about the capabilities of the British nuclear submarine eet. The ring was PLAINTEXT - The original message comprised of ve main players and all before encryption. were illegal resident spies. See HOUGHTON, Harry Frederick, who might PLAME, Valerie - Spy. have been the ringleader. - The ability of PRISM - Code name for a program under people to deny knowledge of or which the United States National responsibility for any damnable actions Security Agency (NSA) collects internet because of a lack of evidence that can communications. conrm their participation, even if they were personally involved in or at least willfully ignorant of the actions.

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PURPLE - American name for the Pro - Ps Japanese diplomatic cipher machine used from 1939-1945. PROBLEM-SOLVING MATRIX - A grid- based notation system used by police PSB - One of China's secret police investigators and counterespionage agencies. ocers when dealing with complex cases. PSIA - (Public Security Intelligence Agency - 公 安 調 査 庁 , kōanchōsa-chō) PRODUCT - Finished intelligence that has Japan's national intelligence agency. been evaluated by an intelligence agency and is ready for distribution to PSYCHIC COMBAT - A condition of active consumers. See CONSUMER. operations between two covert adversaries. PROFESSIONAL-NAME - Nom de guerre of a spy.

PROFUMO AFFAIR (the) - British political scandal that originated with a brief sexual relationship in 1961 between John Profumo, the Secretary of State for War in Harold Macmillan's Conservative government, and Christine Keeler, who dad a parallel aair with a Soviet diplomat and others. This led to Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's resignation.

PROVOCATEUR - An operative sent to incite a target group to action for purposes of entrapping or embarrassing them.

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QUEBEC QUANG BO - Vietnam's military intelligence agency.

QUINGBAO - ( 情 报 部 , formally Cheng Pao K’o) Political Security Section) China's intelligence agency.

QUDS FORCE - A unit in 's Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) directed to carry out unconventional warfare and intelligence activities and responsible for extraterritorial operations.

QRF - Quick Reaction Force.

July 2019 — Spy Lingo — A Secret Eye RCMP SECURITY SERVICE - Counterespionage, counterintelligence, ROMEO and counterterrorist branch of RCMP. Ra - Res Also known as RCMP SPECIAL SERVICES. RADINT - Intelligence gathered from RECONNAISSANCE - Capturing a static radar. picture for analysis.

RAID - An acronym for Rapid RED - American name for an early Assessment and Initial Detection, Japanese diplomatic cipher machine. consisting of teams of National Guardsmen who assist civilian RED BRIGADE - an underground group authorities after a suspected in Italy. biological/toxin/chemical attack on a population center. REDL, Alfred - Spy

RADOLFI, Alexander - (Sandor REILLY, Sidney (Sigmund Georgievich Rado) - Spy Rosenblum) - Spy

RAVEN - A male agent employed to RENT-A-GOONS - Operatives procient seduce people for intelligence purposes. in hand-to-hand combat, used as muscle support when direct physical RAW - (Research and Analysis Wing) confrontation is likely. India's External Intelligence Agency. Also R&AW. RESEARCH AND ANALYSIS WING - Main foreign intelligence agency of India. One RCMP - Police agency in Canada similar of many. to the FBI in the USA. Acronym for Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Also known RESIDENT (REZIDENT) - KGB or GRU as RCM Police. (Soviet and Russian military intelligence) chief of station in any foreign location.

July 2019 — Spy Lingo — A Secret Eye RZ - Urban guerrilla organisation that Res - Rz was active between 1973 and 1995.. RESISTANCE - A civilian underground organization, consisting of cells (1 to 10 persons), circles (a group of cells), and sections (a group of circles).

RG - Defunct French interior intelligence agency.

RICHER, Marthe (Marthe Betenfeld) - Spy

ROLLED-UP - When an operation goes bad and an agent is arrested.

ROSENBERG, Ethel - Spy

ROSENBERG, Julius - Spy

RQ-1 Predator - Unmanned Aerial Vehicle. A medium-sized, long- endurance asset for reconnaissance, surveillance, and target acquisition in moderate risk areas.

RUDOLF, Ivonovich Abel - Spy

RUDOLF, Roessler - Spy

RUSE DE GUERRE - Subterfuge

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SAVAK - Was one of Iraq's security SIERRA services. SBU - The Security Service of Ukraine Sa - Ser (Sluzhba Bezpeky Ukrayiny). It is SA - FBI . Ukraine's law-enforcement authority and main government internal security SAFEHOUSE - A dwelling place or agency in the areas of hideout unknown to the adversary. counterintelligence activity and terrorism combating. SANITIZE - To delete specic material or revise a report or other document to SCHINDLER, John R. - Spy prevent the identication of intelligence sources and collection methods. SCIF - A Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF; pronounced SANTEBAL - of the "ski"), is an enclosed area within a Cambodian Khmer Rouge era building that is used to process Sensitive government, in charge internal security Compartmented Information (SCI) types and running the prisoner camps, torture of classied information. SCI is usually and killings. only briefed, discussed, and stored in an accredited SCIF. SAPO - Sweden's security service responsible for counter-espionage, SECURITY THROUGH OBSCURITY - counter-terrorism, as well as the Security by obscurity involves taking protection of dignitaries and the measures that 't remove an attack constitution. vector but instead conceal it. It is the subject of heated debate. SASHA KVAP - Spy. Codename for Alexander Kvapishevski, a Russian mole SEMTEX - A military explosive suitable inside Hitler's bunker during the nal for sabotage and terrorist operations. months of World WarII. Subsequently poisoned by the KGB in . SERE - An acronym for survival, evasion, resistance, and escape.

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SILVERMASTER SPY RING (the) – Cold Set - Sl War Soviet spy ring operating within the United States and specically within the SET UP - To begin to conduct Federal government. surveillance on a target.

SINN FEIN - The political arm (party) of SHOE - A false passport or visa. the IRA. SHIN BETH - A two-letter Hebrew SERVICING - The act of removing abbreviation of "Security Service" Israel's material from a dead drop. internal security service. Also known as .See GSS .(שב״כ) Shabak SIS - Secret Intelligence Service; the ocial name of Britain's MI6. SHU'BAT AL-MUKHABARAT AL- 'ASKARIYYA - (Military Intelligence SISTEMA - A set of rules that guides the Directorate) The military intelligence informal hierarchy that is observed in service of . Russia and some post-soviet countries, in place of strong formal legal SIGINT - SIGnals INTelligence; consists of institutions. The sistema, of which COMINT (communications intelligence) KOMPROMAT is a big part, regulates and ELINT (electronic intelligence). among other things the distribution of wealth. – In politics of Russia, a politician who came into politics from SIT REP - SITuation REPort. the security, military, or similar services, often the ocers of the former KGB, SLEEPER - Agent living as an ordinary GRU, FSB, SVR, the Federal Drug Control citizen in a foreign country. Acts only Service, or other armed services who when a hostile situation develops. came into power. SŁUŻBA BEZPIECZEŃSTWA - Poland's security service of the Ministry of Internal Aairs, also called the SB.

July 2019 — Spy Lingo — A Secret Eye SOG - An acronym for Special Sm - Sp Operations Group, agents who conduct surveillance. Incontrast, SSG is SMARTDUST - Wirelessly operated composed of non-agents. See SSG microelectromechanical sensor systems usually operated by a computer SORGE, Richard - Spy network. A gift from RAND and DARPA, similar to the 's SOS - for Save Our Ship : dot Smart Specks. See SPY DUST. dot dot - dash dash dash - dot dot dot. SMERSH - Short for "Smert Shpionam" SPECIAL ACCESS PROGRAMS - "SAPs", (Death to Spies); a Soviet also known as "SARs" in the Department counterintelligence agency that existed of Defense, are security protocols that from 1943 to 1946. provide highly classied information with safeguards and access restrictions SO15 (The) - The Counter Terrorism that exceed those for regular classied Command (CTC or SO15) is a Specialist information. Operations branch within 's Metropolitan Police Service. SPECIAL BRANCH - The security branch of the British police. SORM - System for Operative Investigative Activities, the technical SPLASHED - Describes a bodyguard specication for whose client has been assassinated. See interfaces of Russian telecoms. Once WET AFFAIR. exclusively for the FSB, the specs have since been broadened. SPOOK - a spy. SOE - Special Operations Executive; SPY - Any member of an intelligence Britain's WWII sabotage and subversion agency, security service, police agency, organization. Later became MI6. , guerrilla group, or other organization engaged in covert SOFT TARGET - An easy surveillance intelligence-gathering activities. target, untrained and not looking for surveillance.

July 2019 — Spy Lingo — A Secret Eye SRI - (Serviciul Român de Informații) Sp - St 's security information service. SPY DUST - An almost invisible powder SSG - An acronym for Surveillance that can be applied to clothing, cars, Specialist Group, which is what the FBI doorknobs and other objects. Variants calls a surveillance team. See could glow under blacklight. It was INVESTIGATIVE SPECIALIST, SOG. invented in the thirties but developed by the Soviets. In the 2000s, law SSS - Georgia's security service. enforcement agencies started using it as a chemical tracking kit. See SMARTDUST. - The East German Ministry for State Security; East Germany's Cold War - The leader of espionage domestic and foreign intelligence service activities, and an agent HANDLER (1950 - 1990) à la n. extraordinaire.

STATION - Post from where espionage is SPY RING - A network of spies or agents. conducted.

SPY SHIP, PLANE - Both usually carry no STATION CHIEF - The ocer in charge at armament and are loaded with a CIA station, usually in a foreign capital. surveillance equipment. Ships can masquerade as civilian boats and gather StB – Soviet 's security intelligence, usually by means of service, the Statni Tajna Bezpecnost sophisticated electronic eavesdropping, (1945 - 1990). and also inltrate spies or . Spy Planes have military and civilian - Techniques for applications, such as intelligence concealing the very existence of a gathering, battleeld surveillance, message. observation (eye contact with target), airspace surveillance, border patrol, STREET AGENT - An agent whose work shery protection and law enforcement. takes him to various locations. See BRICK Both have a reasonably long history and AGENT. are used by most nations.

July 2019 — Spy Lingo — A Secret Eye Su - Sz SURVEILLANCE - Monitoring a changing situation in real time.

SVR - Sluzhba Vneshney Razvedki. Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service. Unlike the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB), SVR is tasked with intelligence and espionage activities outside Russian Federation. Formed on December 18, 1991.

SWALLOW - A female agent employed to seduce people for intelligence purposes. See HONEY POT.

SWARMING - Overlling a location with surveillance operatives. Often used in psy ops as a means for controlling the target's environment.

SZABO, Violette - Spy

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THERMAL IMAGER - A heat-sensitive TANGO surveillance video camera and display. THROWAWAY - An agent considered to Ta - Tr be expendable. TALENT SPOTTER see ACCESS AGENT. TIMED DROP - A dead drop that will be TAO - (Oce of) Tailored Access retrieved by a recipient after a set time Operations. A cyber-warfare period. intelligence-gathering unit of the National Security Agency (NSA). TOKYO SPY RING (the) - Established by the Soviet Union as a means of TARGET - The subject of surveillance. determining Japanese diplomatic and military intent towards the Soviet Union TARGETING - The process of searching during World War II. for potential spies. Determining who is in a position to access information and TRADECRAFT - The methods developed inuence, and how to make contact with by intelligence operatives to conduct them. their operations.

TECHINT - . - Methods for gaining Analysis of elded equipment for intelligence from the patterns and training, research, and the development volumes of messages gathered by of new weapons and equipment for communications intercepts. eventual intelligence use. TRIADS - Asian gangs. TERMINATED - Murdered. TRIGGER - A surveillance operative who - An unocial term for is watching the target's vacant vehicle, the CIA popularized by ction. home, garage, oce, restaurant etc. and who alerts the rest of the surveillance THE TAKE - Information gathered by team when the target is spotted. intelligence collection operations.

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Tu TUPAMAROS - An underground group in Uruguay.

TURNCOAT - Person which switch sides, allegiance.

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UOP - (Urząd Ochrony Państwa) Poland's UNIFORM security agency (1990 to 2002). U-2 - The world's most famous spy USAFSS - United States Air Force Security plane, developed by the U.S. specically Service. It was essentially the United for intelligence collection in the thin States Air Force's cryptographic atmosphere 55,000 feet above the intelligence/Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) Soviet Union; it is still in use today. branch. Operated from 1948 until 1979.

U-2 INCIDENT (the) - Occurred in 1960 at USEFUL IDIOT - Term that originated in the height of the Cold War when the Soviet Russia, designating a person that Soviet Union shot down an American can be exploited for one's purposes. spy plane over Soviet air space.

ULTRA - Codename for intelligence derived from decryption of messages encrypted by the German Enigma cipher machine during WWII.

UNITED STATES INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY - (IC) is a federation of 17 separate United States government intelligence agencies, that work separately and together to conduct intelligence activities to support the foreign policy and national security of the United States..

UNCLE - Headquarters of any espionage service.

UNSUB - An unknown subject in a surveillance operation.

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WALKER SPY RING (THE) - Was labeled by the Times as “the most VICTOR damaging Soviet spy ring in history.” VEVAK - Iran's primary intelligence agency. WATCH-LIST - People targeted for routine surveillance. VON PAPEN, Franz - Spy WET JOB / AFFAIR - Results in death of VSSE - Veiligheid van de Staat. Belgian target or major bloodshed. See State Security Service SPLASHED.

WHEEL ARTIST - An outdoor surveillance WHISKEY specialist operating in a vehicle. (The) - AKA PMC WILDERNESS OF MIRRORS - A spy Wagner, ChVK Wagner, or CHVK Vagner, operation so complicated that it is no is a Russian paramilitary organisation longer possible to separate truth and described as a private military company untruth. or contracting agency, used by the Russian government in conicts where WINDOW DRESSING - Ancillary materials deniability is called for. that are included in a cover story or deception operation to help convince WAHABI - A Saudi fundamentalist the opposition or other casual observers religious Islamic group that often that what they are observing is genuine. operates underground. WITTING COLLABORATOR - A source WALK-IN - A defector who declares his or that provides mostly gossip whose her intentions by walking into an ocial motivation is not very clear. Can installation and asking for political sometimes be useful. asylum or volunteering to work in place.

WALKER, John - Spy

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ZERO-OUT - The range at which a weapon's sights will produce a bull's eye X-RAY hit. XKEYSCORE - (XKS) A formerly secret computer system rst used by the - A technique of United States National Security Agency psychological warfare, oppression and (NSA) for searching and analyzing global persecution used by the Stasi to repress Internet data, which it collects on a daily political opponents. It was a descendant basis. The source code was published in of the Nazi's Wehrkraftzersetzung. 2014 by Norddeutscher Rundfunk (German equivalent of PBS) in 2014. ZHONGYANG LIANLUOBU - One of said that with XKS any China's intelligence agencies. email could be read, any website's trac scrutinized, any individual tagged.

YANKEE YARDLEY, Herbert - Spy

YAKUZA - A criminal organization from Japan. One of the world's largest. ZULU ZAPATISTA NATIONAL LIBERATION ARMY - An underground group in Mexico.

ZEPHYRs - Spies trained to work in hostile territory.

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