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116: Mad Dog
Darknet Diaries
Jim's a C I, a Case Officer in an Embassie
"His real mission was to identify, assess, develop, recruit and handle non us. Citizens with access to foreign intelligence that his gove et determined was important to its foreign policy," she says. "He would study his targeting package and learn about his target and theinformation he's after"
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Speaker 1
I
Speaker 2
was operating under official cover. I was under state department cover. The
Speaker 1
embassy job was his pretext. He needed a reason to be there. His real mission was to identify, assess, develop, recruit and handle non us. Citizens with access to foreign intelligence that his gove et determined was important to its foreign policy.
Speaker 2
So i had to do both a an official job as a state department officer in an embassy, but i also had my clandestine job as a c i, a case officer. And i would do that either after hours, or when i had a free moment, i would go and do that. So
Speaker 1
during the day, he would study his targeting package and learn about his target and theinformation he's after. But then at night, as when he tried to develop relationships with the target, his official cover also provided him with diplomatic protection, which was really important if he got caught, because this was a way for him to avoid any serious punishment. Well,
Speaker 2
if you have diplomatic protection, like i did, what we call a black passport, the worst that can happen is you're arrested, you're taken downtown, and, you know, you demand to see a consular officer, somebody from the embassy, and then within a day or two, you'd be declared persona non grato, which means you have to leave the country along with your family. So
Speaker 1
jim is in this foreign country,
Speaker 2
just doing his cover, embassy work, when suddenly one day i got this cable, a a classified cable from washington, a message which said, in a couple of years, or less than a couple of years, we are going to be engaged in some highly important negotiations with a certain country. And these negotiations are, we need to have sources to tell us exactly what their positions are. Ok?
Speaker 1
Sounds like jim's being assigned his first mission as a c i, a case officer. This operation is asking jim to find a source who would be able to supply intelligence that would help with upcoming negotiations that this foreign nation is engaged in with the us. It's a big deal. And the message goes on, we
Speaker 2
have very few of any sources on this.
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