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Spies and Spying Part I: The Past and Present

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

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The Role of Human Intelligence

The stuff that we will call old school spycraft or trade craft, is now often collectively called clandestine hume int h u m i and t talked about for human intelligence. Sigent is pas sive signals collection, sort of reading the tea leaves of all those messages that everybody sends to each other. If they're working with you, in fact, you don't talk about em. But if ou do have to talk, then the nomenclature is something more like asset or agent right? And sometimes very secretive, a very secretive operations, then you're not going to use those words either, cause they're a dead giveaway that you're talking about a spy,. You know

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