Covert Terms Flashcards
Access Agent
Provides access to other potential agents by providing profiling information that can help lead to recruitment into an intelligence service.
Action Directe
An underground group in France.
Agent
A person under the control of an intelligence agency or security service
Agent Provocateur
A deep-cover agent who feigns enthusiastic support while tempting the target to incriminate himself/herself through action or words.
AIVD
Netherlands General Intelligence and Security Service, the Algemene Inlichtingen.
ASIO
Australia’s national security intelligence service.
Assaulter
A member of a SWAT team responsible for making a forced entry
Backstop
An arrangement between two persons for the express purpose of substantiating a cover story or alibi.
Biographic Leverage
blackmail info
Blind Date
The first meeting with an unknown person
Blowback
Unexpected negative consequences of spying.
BND
Germany’s intelligence agency, the Bundesnachrichtendienst. Literally translated as the Federal News Agency
Burnt
True identity exposed. See BLOWN
Carnivore
A computer program designed by the FBI to allow the FBI to collect electronic communications from a specific user targeted in an investigation
Case Officer
A operations officer, controller.
Cobbler
A spy who creates false passports, visas, diplomas and other documents.
Comm
A small note or other written communication from an underground organization or one of its members. They are typically written on cigarette wrappers, chewing gum wrappers, etc
Command of the Target
The visual observation of the subject of the surveillance operation. Used during pedestrian and vehicle surveillance.
Dead Drop
A location where communications, documents, or equipment is covertly placed for another person to collect without direct contact between parties
DGI
Cuba’s Intelligence Agency
DGSE
France’s Intelligence Agency
DS
Bulgaria’s secret service
E & E
Evade and escape
Executive Action
Assassination
Exhilaration
A rescue operation to bring a defector, refugee, or operative and his or her family out of harms way
Filling
The act of inserting material in a dead drop
Flip
A U turn made by the target during a vehicle surveillance operation
GID
Iraq’s main intelligence agency
Hostile Recruitment
Recruitment by threat or force of a uncooperative informant
Overt Target
Deliberately tries to draw attention
Posse Comitatas
A Latin term - meaning power of the people
Sleeper Agent
An inactive deep-cover agent
Soft Target
An easy surveillance target, untrained, not looking for surveillance.
Swarming
Overfilling a location with surveillance operatives. Controlling targets environment.
Terminated
Murdered
Uncle
HQ of any espionage or intelligence service
Zero-Out
The range at which a weapons sights will produce a bulls-eye hit
IED
Improvised Explosive Device
