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| Upon the capture of a spy, the question “was this tied to some specific need or tasking or was it simply opportunistic?” must be asked to determine the nature of the penetration and the goals of the nation running the spy |
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| A list of personnel possessing appropriate security clearance and who are cleared to know details of a particular operation, or other sensitive information |
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| An employee being accorded the privilege of a clearance does not automatically get access to all of the intelligence information available |
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| A subset of the larger counterintelligence issue. CI seeks to thwart or exploit any and all attempts to undercut or penetrate intelligence activities |
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| Efforts taken to protect one’s own intelligence operations from penetration and disruption by hostile nations or their intelligence services |
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Foreign contacts, handling of classified information
Damage Assessment: Determines what intelligence has been compromised |
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| Opponent’s agents that are in reality working for you, or vice versa |
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| An intelligence alliance comprising Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States. These countries are bound by the multilateral UKUSA Agreement, a treaty for joint cooperation in signals intelligence |
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| Spies threatening to reveal classified information in open court as a means of avoiding prosecution |
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| A polygraph adjusted for personal behavior |
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| Specific issues surrounding the penetration: how it happened, how long it has been going on, who on the other side has been responsible for tasking and for running the penetration, what information may have been compromised, issues of tradecraft |
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| Acronym for the reasons for spying: Money, Ideology, Compromise (or Coercion), Ego |
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| National Security Letters |
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| One investigative technique that has been used in espionage cases, as well as counterterrorism. A type of administrative subpoena—that is, they do not require a judicial order. These are used most often by the FBI but also used by the CIA, and require the recipients to turn over records and data pertaining to individuals, with the added proviso of a gag order—the recipient of this may not reveal its contents or even the fact of its existence |
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| Employees are only told what they need to know to perform their jobs |
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| A machine that monitors physical responses (such as pulse and breathing rate) to a series of questions |
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| Responsibility to Provide |
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| Officers and agencies now will be evaluated by the degree to which they actively seek to share intelligence |
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| A spy who is placed in a target country or organization, not to undertake an immediate mission, but rather to act as a potential asset if activated |
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