Anyone have a CIA howto/manual? Others?? :-) --------------------------------------------- http://www.guardian.co.uk/saturday_review/story/0,3605,643341,00.html
How to be a KGB spy Vasiliy Mitrokhin on the secret handbook of Russia's undercover agents Saturday February 2, 2002 The Guardian The KGB compiled and issued intelligence and counter-intelligence dictionaries in the 1970s. Only officers in certain operational sub-units of the KGB were allowed access to them. The dictionaries, designed to provide a standard, accepted definition of intelligence terms peculiar to the solitary and self-contained professional world of the agencies of repression, had the legal status of regulatory acts, binding on all units of the Soviet KGB. Behind the quasi-scientific expressions it is possible to discern the doctrine of permissiveness, providing a criminal legal basis for any criminal act or constituting a recommendation to carry out such acts. The dictionaries are the intelligence officer's book of amoral rules for activities which jeopardise stability, the law and the social order, providing guidance on how negative ways and means can be used to achieve positive results. They authorise for him to do things which are forbidden by law and to flout customary usage. Agent-boyevik - a combat agent An agent carrying out special tasks, including those requiring the use of arms, explosives, special preparations and substances. Agent vneshney razvedki KGB iz sovetskykh grazhdan - a Soviet agent of KGB foreign Intellience A Soviet citizen systematically carrying out secret instructions from external intelligence on the basis of patriotic conviction, in foreign countries or on the territory of the Soviet Union, and undertaking to keep secret the fact of his cooperation and its nature. Agent-dezinformator - disinformation agent An agent who consciously communicates to the intelligence officer with whom he is in contact patently false information on matters of interest to intelligence, passing it off as genuine. Agent-razrabotchik - a cultivation agent An agent who assesses individuals under cultivation, observes their behaviour at home and at work, identifies contacts and the nature of their mutual relations, and carries out other intelligence tasks against targets of cultivation. Brosovyy signal - disposable signal A signal used in some forms of impersonal contact in intelligence work and intended for a particular contact without attracting attention, namely a used or throw-away object of no value, or a part of it (such as a lump of stone, glass, an empty cigarette packet, orange peel, the cork from a bottle and so forth). Verbovka v forme pryamogo predlozheniya - recruitment by means of a direct proposal A method of drawing a specially selected individual, who has been thoroughly studied covertly, into secret cooperation with intelligence as an agent (under true or false flag) by facing him directly with the question of carrying out intelligence assignments systematically and clandestinely on specified terms. Verbovka na ideyno-politicheskoy osnove - recruitment on ideological and political grounds Inducing a specially selected and studied individual to cooperate secretly as an agent by exploiting his political views, his national liberation aspirations, his nationalist inclinations, his patriotic feelings, his anti-war and anti- imperialist convictions and other political factors. Verbovka na komprometiruyushchikh materialakh - recruitment on the basis of compromising materials Inducing or forcing a specially selected and studied individual to cooperate secretly with intelligence as an agent by threatening to expose his professional and moral failings. Verbovka na moralno-psikhologicheskoy osnove - recruitment on a moral and psychological basis Inducing a specially selected and studied individual to cooperate secretly as an agent by exerting psychological pressure on him, by exploiting his foibles, vanity, envy, jealousy, vengefulness, his personal sympathies and also his moral, professional or other failings. Vremennyy post naruzhnogo nablyudeniya - temporary surveillance post A place used by intelligence officers or their agents while conducting surveillance on a target of cultivation in order to camouflage their clandestine surveillance of the target as long as necessary. Depending on circumstances, such posts may be selected in doorways, shops, coffee houses, tram, trolley-bus or bus stops. Dezinformatsionnyye materialy - disinformation materials Material specially collected or fabricated by the intelligence service to mislead particular circles, agencies, institutions and individuals in foreign countries (documents, reports, articles published in periodicals or broadcast by radio and television, declarations by state agencies, public figures and scholars, private anonymous letters, leaflets etc). Zhurnalistskoye prikrytiye - journalistic cover The official activity of an intelligence officer acting as a journalist for the purpose of disguising his membership of the intelligence cadre and camouflaging his intelligence work. Zasada - an ambush The covert deployment of counter-intelligence officers in a location which has become known to them as the place where a foreign intelligence officer and his agent are to meet, for the purpose of seizing them suddenly while they are handling incriminating evidence of their intelligence activity. Kampaniya shpionomanii - a spy-mania campaign The totality of agitation and propaganda measures carried out by the state agencies of a country using the mass information media, aimed at violently accusing another state, its official representatives and citizens, of conducting widespread espionage within the country, with the object of causing political damage to that state and limiting its scope for conducting intelligence work. KontroInyye zakladki - test packages Packages equipped with secret means of detecting whether they have been opened, which are placed in a hiding place in order to check the reliability of the hiding place or of the agent who is instructed to take them out. Metod vnusheniya - the method of suggestion The discreet exertion of psychological influence on an individual which ensures that he accepts a particular idea or line of conduct uncritically. Metod prinuzhdeniya - the method of coercion Psychological pressure consisting of prompting an individual to behave in a certain way against his will. Perlyustratsiya korrespondentsii (PK) - covert examination of mail The opening and examination (and sometimes the photographing) of mail without the knowledge of the sender and the addressee, ensuring that the original appearance of the package is restored. Podstava - dangle One of the methods used by intelligence (or counter- intelligence) to penetrate the adversary's agent network, consisting of dangling an intelligence officer or agent before an identified adversary officer with instructions to behave in a manner which would arouse the adversary's interest and lead the adversary to draw him into secret cooperation. Razrabatyvayemoye litso - an individual under cultivation An individual against whom the intelligence service is taking agent-operational measures in order to study him and achieve specific aims (recruitment, disruption of hostile activity, compromise and other). Flag tserkvi - church flag The use by the intelligence service of the religious beliefs of an individual and of other grounds to draw him into carrying out assignments under the guise of intelligence work on behalf of the church (Catholic, Protestant, Orthodox, Judaic, Muslim or other). Garderob operativnyy - operational wardrobe Collection of material and technical resources used to disguise intelligence officers and agents when they are carrying out operational assignments. It consists of items for personal disguise designed to alter the user's appearance (clothing and footwear, accessories, sports equipment, make up etc) and items for group disguise (a variety of tools and appliances) which will allow officers to appear to be working for a range of different enterprises, establishments or special services. lgra operativnaya - operational game System of counter-intelligence operations and measures in which a state security agency systematically feeds the enemy various kinds of disinformation and agent reports containing information backed up with robust cover. The agency achieves this by operating in the name of and with the participation of one of its own agents, posing as a member of the enemy agent apparatus. Kvartira-lovushka - mousetrap premises Residential premises used by Soviet counter-intelligence to ensnare enemy intelligence agents and the emissaries of foreign anti-Soviet organisations. · Extract from the KGB Lexicon: The Soviet Intelligence Officers' Handbook, edited and introduced by Vasiliy Mitrokhin
