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Spies Vocab Quiz Flashcards

1
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A person unofficially employed by an intelligence service. This person is often a foreign national whom a staff officer from an intelligence service recruited to obtain information for intelligence purposes or perform other clandestine activities

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Agent

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A foreigner enrolled or enlisted by an intelligence service - either for pay or because of political conviction - to serve as an intelligence source

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Asset

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A deception planted abroad by an intelligence agency to mislead another country that returns to the originating nation with bad consequences (Ex: CIA trained mujahideen fighters in Afghanistan who later sided with al-Qaeda and/or the Taliban)

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Blowback

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Agent or asset revealed to counterintelligence, also called burned

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Blown

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Canada’s secret training based for Allied spies during World War II (in Ontario)

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Camp X

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Messages in which every letter of a word is replaced with a different letter or numeral

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Ciphers

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Messages in which letters or numbers are substitute for a whole word or a phrase. Codes are easier to crack than ciphers because codes are constantly repeated

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Codes

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The psychological terrain of a spy in enemy territory - beyond the reach of his “side”

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Cold

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Communications intelligence usually gathered by technical interception and codebreaking but also by use of human agents and surreptitious entry

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Comint

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When an operation, asset, or agent is uncovered and cannot remain secret

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Compromised

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Identifying, penetrating, and neutralizing foreign intelligence or any “adversaries” activities directed against a country’s national interests, values, and objectives

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Counterintelligence

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Activities carried out in a concealed or clandestine manner, primarily to make it difficult, if not impossible to trace the activities back to the sponsoring intelligence service

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Covert action

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Agent assigned to supervise an agent or asset or even a network (i.e. spy ring) in matters of pay, collection of intelligence/information, and other critical details. Also referred to as “controlled agent”

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Case Officer

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14
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Organization cover or disguise in which an agent hides his/her connection to an intelligence agency

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Cover

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15
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Practices used with code or cipher machines that enable enemy cryptologists to break into a code or cipher

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Crib

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Individual who tries to decipher communications that is either CODE or CIPHER. American William F. Friedman is considered one of the greatest cryptographers. He and his team cracked a Japanese code system called Purple using their own machine. The information they deciphered was called Magic

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Cryptographer

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17
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Code name given to a spy to hide his or her real identity

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Cryponym

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A mechanism or person used to create a compartment between the members of an operation to allow them to pass materials or messages securely; also an agent who functions as an intermediary between a spymaster and other subagents

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Cut-Out

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Agent who pretends to volunteer to spy for the hostile intelligence service but in fact remains loyal to his/her country

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Dangle

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20
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Site where agents leave and exchange messages with other agents or their control. The locations are nooks and crevices in out of the way places. The object is to have no direct contact between agent and their control

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Dead drop

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21
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A person who has intelligence value and who volunteers to work for an enemy intelligence service

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Defector

22
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Person who, while pretending to spy for a hostile service, is actually under the control of the country on which he/she is supposed to be spying. Sometimes, double agent poses as a spy who has “turned, meaning decided to change loyalties, but actually continues to work for his/her original intelligence agency

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Double agent

23
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The act of obtaining information clandestinely. The term applies particularly to the act of collecting military, industrial, or political data about one country for the benefit of another

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Espionage

24
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Executive action

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Assassination

25
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Governments often give double agents so-called feed material, accurate information that they do not mind handing over to foreign power in order to help their agent gain the trust of the other side. That trust is then useful when it comes time for the double agent to pass on disinformation

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Feed material

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Someone who supervises the work of another agent, often from a foreign intelligence service

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Handler

27
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Slang for use of men or women in sexual situations to intimidate or snare others

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Honey trap

28
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Intelligence derived from human sources

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Humint

29
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An agent operating in a foreign nation under an assumed identity or cover job. This form of agent has no protection from arrest or detention

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Illegal

30
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Information gathered from both open and classified sources that is analyzed to help policy makers better understand world events

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Intelligence

31
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An agent operating in a foreign country under diplomatic cover, providing diplomatic immunity in event of arrest

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Legal

32
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False biography in order to conceal true identity

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Legend

33
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A photographic reduction of a message, so small it can be hidden in plain site (Ex: period at the end of a sentence)

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Microdot

34
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Human penetration into an intelligence service or other highly sensitive organization. Often a mole is a defector who agrees to stay in place and then supply the other intelligence service with classified information

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Mole

35
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Sheets of paper or silk printed with random number group ciphers used to code and decode messages one time

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One-Time pad

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Intelligence gained from public sources (like newspapers, magazines, websites, books)

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Open Source

37
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Original message before it is encrypted

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Plaintext

38
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Operative sent to incite a target group to action for purposes of entrapping or embarrassing its members

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Provocateur

39
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An antenna on a receiver that can be mechanically or electrically steered to determine the direction a signal is coming from. Two receivers at different locations can then triangulate on the source of the signal (aka Radar)

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Radio Direction Finding

40
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Male agent employed to seduce the people for intelligence-gathering purposes

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Raven

41
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Activity involving the covert collection of information on an enemy’s specific areas of activity or resources (Ex: reconnaissance satellites photograph foreign military installations)

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Reconnaissance

42
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Site considered safe for use by operatives as a base of operations or for meetings

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Safe house

42
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To be arrested (as an agent) by an enemy security service after a secret operation is exposed

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Rolled up

43
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An agent planted in another country with orders to carry out a normal life and conduct no intelligence operations until ordered to do so - most often, in the event of hostilities

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Sleeper

44
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The leader of any intelligence-gathering services, and an agent handler who has a string of extraordinary successes (Ex: William Stephenson during WWII)

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Spymaster

45
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The chief office of an intelligence agency in a foreign country, most often located in an embassy

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Station

46
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Female agent employed to seduce for intelligence-gathering purposes

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Swallow

47
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Technical intelligence - IMINT/SIGINT/MASINT

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Techint

48
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The methods developed by intelligence operatives to conduct their operations

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Tradecraft

49
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Methods for gaining intelligence from the patterns and volumes of messages of radio intercepts

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Traffic analysis

50
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Informal name given to headquarters of any intelligence service

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Uncle

51
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Operation in which blood is such, such as an assassination (the soviets used this term)

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Wet Job

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