Let's say a CIA officer successfully recruits a member of Russia's intelligence service, the FSB. "Oh no sir, I'm just a tourist taking pictures." In going to his or her cover within a cover, a spy would admit to doing something less serious than espionage, which would hopefully explain away the suspicious activities the spy was observed to be doing. If the backstop may not hold up, a spy may revert to this "Inception"-like phrase. If a spy is inside Iran posing as a businessman, then his backstop would be documents, financial records, and a phone number back to his office that would vouch for him, as one example. It's the spy's version of an alibi if the spy were to be picked up by the bad guys. This is an arrangement made to make sure a spy's cover isn't blown. These are referred to as "walk-ins" or "volunteers," although they don't have to literally go to a location.įormer CIA officer Aldrich Ames and former FBI agent Robert Hanssen were both "volunteers" to the Soviet KGB. While spies often have to go out and look for people to turn against their homeland and spill secrets, sometimes a potential asset just shows up at the embassy door. Just as a journalist may test a source or press for other information to confirm what he or she is being told, an intelligence asset needs to be "validated" - meaning there is a process to make sure the asset is authentic, reliable, and useful. Not every source is going to be a meaningful one. This can be technical - a hacked phone for example - or a human asset: A person working for a foreign intelligence agency who has agreed to share secrets a spy is looking for. In intel-speak, an asset is anything that holds intelligence value. At 359 pages, it's a hefty read, so we pulled out some of the most interesting and unique terms here. The meetings and comments follow a spate of deadly attacks by Afghan security forces who have opened fire on their foreign counterparts, killing 11 Isaf soldiers in the past fortnight and 40 so far this year.The website Public Intelligence obtained an unclassified glossary of terms and definitions for counterintelligence professionals created by the Defense Department a couple of months back. Obama emphasised that the training of Afghan security forces to take over from the withdrawing US and Nato troops must continue. "Obviously, we have to do more, because there is an uptick over the last 12 months or so on this," he said at a White House news conference. US President Barack Obama said Monday that the US was watching with "deep concern" the increase in the allied attacks on US troops. The New York Times reported Karzai as saying on Wednesday that the government will re-examine the files of 350,000 Afghan soldiers and police to help curb rogue shootings of Nato personnel. Martin Dempsey visited Kabul this week with insider attacks at the top of his agenda in meetings with Nato and Afghan security leaders. The special meeting comes after the US Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Gen. "The President directed the relevant authorities to redouble efforts and take extra measures in adding institutional strength to army, police and NDS to better respond to the conspiracies continually hatched throughout the past three decades to disrupt the goal of having a strong Afghanistan and building a capable Afghan force," the statement said. While no country was specifically named in the statement, blame has been lain on Pakistan and Iran in the past.
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termed as to no avail the recent destructive enemy designs perpetrated by individuals in Afghan army and police uniform to hurt a process that aims to train a professional and capable Afghan force," the Presidential office said Wednesday night. The President's press office released a statement Wednesday also suggesting that the spy agencies were behind the insider attacks on foreign forces, with the aim of undermining the building of the Afghan forces. The Afghan government has proven documents in this regard," Faizi said, but declined to name a specific country. "The investigation shows that foreign spy agencies have infiltrated the Afghan security ranks. Presidential spokesman Aimal Faizi told TOLOnews Thursday that an investigation undertaken by the government proves such infiltration is happening.įaizi added that the shooting deaths of Nato-led foreign soldiers by Afghan security personnel was the work of these spy agencies aiming to undermine the building of the Afghan forces. Afghan President Hamid Karzai held a special meeting Wednesday with the national security team to discuss the prevention of foreign spy agencies infiltrating into Afghan security institutions.
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