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ACCESS AGENT – a talent spotter, performs
reconnaissance for recruiters.
ACORN – slang for someone who is
performing an intelligence function.
ACTION DIRECTE – an
underground group in France.
AGENT – a person under the control
of an intelligence agency or security service.
AGENT-OF-INFLUENCE –
a deep-cover agent with influence among the members of a target group.
AGENT
PROVOCATEUR – a deep-cover agent who feigns enthusiastic support while
tempting the target to incriminate himself/herself through action or words .
AIS
– Argentina's intelligence agency.
AL AMN AL-KHAS – Iraq's
security service.
AMAN – one of Israel's intelligence agencies.
AMERIKA
– underground metaphor for a fascist USA remeniscent of Nazi Germany.
ANALYSIS
– drawing conclusions about raw information by assessing its significance
and by collating it with other information.
ASALA – underground
group in Armenia.
ASIO – Australian Security Intelligence
Organization.
ASIS – Australian Secret Intelligence Service, a
department of ASIO.
ASSAULTER – a member of a SWAT team
responsible for making a forced entry.
ASSET – an agent.
AUM
SHRINKYO – underground group in Japan with expertise in germ and
chemical warfaire.
AVB – Hungary's security service, the Allami
Vedelmi Batosag.
BACKSTOP – an arrangement between two persons
for the express purpose of substantiating a cover story or alibi.
BAG
JOB – surreptitious entry, break and enter.
BAKIN –
Indonesia's security service.
BATF – a US security service, the
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms.
BETTY BUREAU – FBI
slang for a female support person who has worked for the FBI her entire career.
BfV
– Germany's security service, the Bundesamt fir Verfassungsschutz.
BIOGRAPHICAL
LEVERAGE – blackmail info.
BLACK-FLAGGED – an agent or
intelligence officer who is to be interrogated and summarily shot if
apprehended.
BLIND DATE – the first meeting with an unknown
person.
BLACK PROPOGANDA – a smear campaign, usually consisting
of character assassination.
BLOWBACK – unexpected negative
consequences of spying activity.
BLOWFISH – a mathematical
algorithm for computer encryption of text that purportedly can only be cracked
by brute force if the passphrase is unknown.
BLOWN – detected.
BLUE-ON-BLUE
– friendly fire, inadvertent hostile engagement between allies.
BND
– Germany's intelligence agency, the Bundesnachrichtendienst. Literally
translated as the Federal News Agency.
BOX – slang for
Britain's security service, MI.5.
BREVITY CODES – a system of
code-words used by members of a surveillance team.
BRICK AGENT –
an FBI agent who works inside a field office. Also see STREET AGENT.
BRUSH
CONTACT – a clandestine, momentary contact between two agents who are
passing information, documents, or equipment.
BRUSH PASS – same
as brush contact.
BSS – Belgium's security service
BUCAR
– an FBI car.
BUG-ON-A-CHIP – slang for USA's Clipper
chip.
BUPO – Switzerland's security service.
BURNT –
burned, completed exposed. See BLOWN.
BVD – Netherlands'
security service.
CALL-UP – a police term meaning a situation
where a SWAT team has deployed.
CANNON – a thief who steals
back the inducement offered by the spies to an informant, defector, etc.
CARIBINIERI
– Italy's federal antiterrorist police.
CASE OFFICER –
operations officer, controller.
CBI – India's security service.
CHASE
CAR – a security detail or bodyguard vehicle that follows the subject.
CHEATING
– command of the target from in front of the target during floating
box surveillance. See also COMMAND OF THE TARGET.
CHENG PAO K'O –
China's intelligence agency.
CHICKEN FEED – low grade
information fed through a double agent to one's adversary with the intention of
building the credibility of the double agent.
CHOBETSU – One of
Japan's security services.
CIA – a US intelligence agency.
CNT
– an acronym for crisis negotiation team. CNTs are used by police in
situations involving hostage-takers or barricaded suspects. The name CNT is a
misnomer – their true role is not to negotiate, but rather to obtain
intelligence to facilitate an assault by the SWAT team, and to distract the
suspect to divert his attention from the coming assault.
COMINT –
acronym for communications intelligence.
COMM – a small note or
other written communication from an underground organization or one of its
members. They are typically written on cigarette wrappers, chewing gum wrappers,
etc.
COMMAND OF THE TARGET – active visual observation of the
subject of the surveillance operation. Used during pedestrian and vehicle
surveillance. See also CHEATING and FLOATING BOX.
COMMANDO – a
civilian, military, or paramilitary combat group using irregular tactics.
Commando can refer to an individual, a cell, a squad, or the organization as a
whole.
COMMIT – a surveillance operative performing the commit
function is watching a location to determine the direction that the target takes
(or "commits" to).
COMPROMISED – breached security
status.
CONG AN BO – Vietnam's security service.
CONSUMER
– a person or an organization on an intelligence agency's distribution
list. Also see PRODUCT.
COOKED – a mixture of genuine and fake
material provided via a double agent to one's adversary.
COORDINATION DE
LA SECURITE DU TERRITOIRE – Algeria's security service.
COUNTERESPIONAGE
– activities designed to impede the efforts of hostile intelligence
agencies engaged in espionage against one's own nation, allies, and citizens.
COUNTERINTELLIGENCE
– activities designed to impede or thwart the efforts of hostile
intelligence agencies attempting to penetrate or compromise one's own
intelligence agency.
COUSINS – slang for CIA.
COVER
– persona, profession, purpose, activity, fictitious image maintained by an
undercover operative.
COVERT ACTION AGENT – a spy who works to
reorient an entire nation's politics in favor of his country.
CS GAS
– a form of tear gas, full name ortho-chlorobenzalmalanonitrile, used by
cops, SWAT teams, and the military.
CSE – Canada's sigint
intelligence agency, Communications Security Establishment.
http://www.cse.dnd.ca/
CSIS – Canada's security service.
CUT-OUT
– a go-between used to preserve the safety or anonymity of the principals.
Same as LETTERBOX.
COURIER – delivers documents, money, etc.
DAM
– France's military intelligence agency.
DANGLE – a spy
who poses as a walk-in to penetrate the other side. Also see WALK-IN.
DARPA
– Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (USA).
DATA RECOVERY
– bureaucrat-talk for the backdoor built into all US-exported
crypto software since 1998.
DCSS – Denmark's security service.
DDIS
– Denmark's intelligence agency.
DEAD DROP – a physical
location where communications, documents, or equipment is covertly placed for
another person to collect without direct contact between the parties.
DEAD-LETTER
BOX – same as dead drop.
DEAD-LETTER DROP – same as
dead drop.
DECOY – distracts adversary's attention.
DEEP-COVER
AGENT – permanent cover.
DEFECTOR – a person who has
renounced his/her country of citizenship.
DGI – Cuba's
intelligence agency.
DGSE – France's intelligence agency.
DIA
– a US intelligence agency, the Defense Intelligence Agency.
DIRTY
TRICKS – covert sabotage carried out by a security service or
intelligence agency, ranging from pranks to assassination.
DIVERSION – distracts adversary's attention.
DLB –
acronym for dead-letter box. Also see DEAD DROP.
DOPE BOOK – a
notebook kept with a sniper rifle for the purposes of recording the atmospheric
conditions, range, lighting, and resulting hit or miss of every shot fired.
DOPPELGANGER
– a lookalike. See also LOOKALIKE.
DOUBLE-AGENT –
simultaneously serves two adversaries (often with their knowledge).
DRY
CLEANING – active countersurveillance and antisurveillance against
pavement artists and wheel artists.
DS – Bulgaria's security
service, the Drzaven Sigurmost.
DSD – Australia's sigint
agency, Defence Signals Directorate. http://www.dsd.gov.au/
DST –
France's security service.
DUBOK – Russian term for a
dead-letter box. Also see DEAD DROP.
E&E – escape and
evasion.
ELEMENT – a five-man SWAT team. Consisting of a team
leader, scout, rear guard, and two assaulters. The rear guard provides cover for
the scout and is usually armed with a 12-guage shotgun. The assaulters usually
carry Heckler & Koch 9mm MP-5 submachine guns. See also ASSAULTER.
ELLIPTICAL
CONVERSATION – says one thing but means another.
EQUESTRIAN
POSTURE – an effect produced by
rigor mortis whereby the cadaver sits upright as if riding in a saddle,
with arms outstretched.
ESPIONAGE – clandestine collection of
intelligence by a non-domestic intelligence agency.
ESS –
acronym for environmentally stable strategy, a concept used in strategic
game-theory.
ETA – an underground group in Spain.
EVOC
– an acronym for Emergency Vehicle Operation Course, taught at the FBI
academy in Quantico.
FALN – an underground group in Puerto
Rico.
FALSE FLAG RECRUITMENT – impersonation by a spy while
recruiting an informant, defector, agent, etc.
FBI – a US
security service.
FDS – One of Mexico's security services.
FIBONACCI
SYSTEM – a system of non-carrying addition used for one-time pad codes.
For example, (Fib) 999 + 222 = 111.
FILLING – the act of
inserting material in a dead drop.
FLIP – a U Turn made by the
target during a vehicle surveillance operation.
FLOATING BOX –
a method of surveillance where a team of operators establishes a containment box
around the target wherever he/she goes.
FMLN – Frente Farabundo
Marti para Liberacion Nacional, an underground group in El Salvador.
FOLLOW
– a surveillance team is executing a follow when they are shadowing a
moving target. See also FLOATING BOX. A follow begins when the target exits the
stakeout box and a surveillance operative attains command of the target. See
also COMMAND OF THE TARGET.
FOOTFALL DETECTOR – vibration
sensor designed to detect walking humans.
FOUR-BAGGER –
disclipline of an agent by FBI headquarters, consisting of censure, transfer,
suspension, and probation.
FRA – Sweden's military signals
intelligence agency.
FREQUENCY FLOODING – a technique that
allows an ordinary telephone to become a covert listening device.
FRIEND
– slang for an agent, informant, or mole providing information to a
handler.
FRIENDS – slang for Britain's secret intelligence
service, MI.6.
FRONT – a legitimate-appearing business created
by an intelligence agency or security service to provide cover for spies and
their operations.
FSB – Russia's federal security service,
responsible for counterespionage.
FUNKSPIEL – impersonation during electronic communications.
Derived from the German phrase for "radio game".
FUNNY PAPER
– slang for the counterfeiting and forged documents section of an
intelligence agency or security service.
GCHQ – Britain's
sigint agency, Government Communications Head Quarters. http://www.gchq.gov.uk
GIA
– an underground group in Algeria.
GID – Iraq's main
intelligence organization, Da' Irat al Mukhabarat al-Amah.
GRU –
Russian military intelligence, the Glavnoye Razvedyvatelnoye Upravleniye.
GSS
– Israel's security service (also called Shin Beth).
GUAN-XI –
an access agent for China's intelligence agency
GUOANBU – one
of China's security services.
GUSTAV WEBER – Hitler's double,
used by the Fuhrer's bodyguards to stymie the Allies as to his whereabouts. Shot
in the forehead immediately after Hitler's death.
HAMAS – an
underground group in Palestine.
HARD MAN – an experienced
operative who can survive in a hostile environment and who has killed.
HARD
TARGET – a surveillance target who is actively maintaining secrecy and
may not reveal that he/she has detected the surveillance team.
HEZBOLLAH
– an underground group in Lebanon, alleged to have operating units in Latin
America with links to major drug dealers.
HONEY POT – Mata
Hari, Raven, lady, femme fatale; a female agent using romance to compromise a
target.
HOOLIGAN TOOL – a specialized tool much like a crowbar,
developed by fire departments for prying open doors and windows. Also used by
SWAT teams.
HOSTILE RECRUITMENT – recruitment by threat or
force of an uncooperative informant, mole, or agent-in-place.
HUMINT
– intelligence activities involving people rather than electronic
eavesdropping or communications interception.
HUNTING PACK –
slang for surveillance team.
IAKHBAL – Israeli police unit that
fights organized crime.
ICBM – an acronym for instant calm
breath method, a way to overcome the flight-or-fight reflex (panic). Also
reduces hyperventilation.
ILD – one of China's security
services.
ILLEGAL – an intelligence officer operating in a
foreign nation without the protection of diplomatic immunity.
IMINT –
acronym for image intelligence.
INFORMANT – a legitimate member
of a target group providing intelligence to the surveillance team.
INTELLIGENCE
OFFICER – a trained member of an intelligence agency, an employee on
salary.
INTERPOL – international police body that coordinates
the intelligence gathering and investigative activities of member police forces.
INVESTIGATIVE
SPECIALIST – the FBI's name for a surveillance operative (vehicle or
foot). Pay grade GS-7 to GS-10. See also SSG.
IRA – an
underground group in Northern Ireland.
ISTIKHBARAT AL ASKARIYA –
Libyan military intelligence.
ITAC – an acronym for
International Terrorist Assessment Center, located in Washington DC.
JARKING
– bugging a weapons cache, often rendering weapons unusable.
JETRO
-- one of Japan's intelligence agencies.
JIHAZ AMN AL DAOULA –
Egypt's security service.
JOE – a deep-cover agent.
JRA
– Japanese Red Army, an underground group in Japan.
KEMPEI TAI –
Japan's secret police.
KGB – Kometet Gosudarstvennoi
Bezopasnosti.
K-LINE – SVR internal security and investigations
section.
KOANCHO – Japan's counterintelligence and security
service.
L5 – 4096 bit encryption algorithm
LADY –
honey pot.
LAKAM – one of Israel's intelligence agencies
(Ministry of Defense).
LEGEND – the faked biography of a
deep-cover agent.
LETTERBOX – a person who is acting as a
go-between. Also see CUT-OUT.
LINK DIAGRAM – connections being
analyzed in a complex police investigation or counterespionage case. See
problem-solving matrix.
LLB – an acronym for live-letter box,
an address used to receive communication to be forwarded to an intelligence
agency. See also DLB.
LOOKALIKES – decoys used to confuse hit
squads and surveillance teams.
LSD – an acronym for d-lysergic
acid diethylanide, a hallucinatory drug discovered in 1943 by Dr. Albert
Hofmann, a researcher at Switzerland's Sandoz corporation, a pharmaceutical
manufacturer. Subsequently monopolized by the CIA for its MKULTRA project that
developed methods for secretly controlling people. Still used today by numerous
intelligence agencies and security services for the following functions –
1. disturbance of memory; 2. discrediting by aberrant behavior; 3. eliciting of
information; 4. creation of dependence; 5. suggestibility. At the CIA's request,
in 1954 Eli Lilly & Company developed a method for manufacturing LSD from
publicly available chemicals. The CIA's bungling of MKULTRA allowed the drug to
escape from the lab, where the CIA lost control of it. LSD subsequently ruined
two generations of young Americans. No CIA officer or contractor was ever
reprimanded or punished.
M-19 – underground group in Columbia.
MASKIROVDA
– Russian name for deception techniques designed to fool US spy satellites.
Recently used by India's counterintelligence agency to conceal nuclear testing
from the CIA.
MATA HARI – honeypot, femme fatale,
MBRF
– one of Russia's intelligence agencies.
MERCURY FULMINATE –
an initiating agent for detonating PETN. See PETN.
MI.5 –
Britain's security service. K Branch is responsible for counterespionage, F
Branch for countersubversion, C Branch for security of sensitive government
installations.
MI.6 – Britain's intelligence agency.
MICE
– an acronym for money ideology compromise ego (methods used by
intelligence agencies and security services to ruin a target).
MINI
MANUAL OF THE URBAN GUERRILLA – an underground operations manual by
Brazilian freedom-fighter Carlos Marighella. Contains 41 chapters. Banned in
many countries.
MIN/MAX – a concept in strategic game-theory.
MITI
-- one of Japan's intelligence agencies.
MOLE – a penetration
agent.
MONTENEROS – an underground group in Argentina.
MOSSAD
– one of Israel's intelligence agencies, noted for its expertise in wet
affairs. Literally translated as "institute". Never referred to as
the MOSSAD, but rather simply called MOSSAD.
MST –
Landless Rural Workers Movement, an underground group in Brazil.
MUKHABARAT
– Libya's intelligence agency.
MUSLIM UIGHUR – an
underground group in China.
NAICHO – one of Japan's
intelligence agencies.
NARCOTHERAPY HYPNOSIS – CIA
interrogators use hypnosis to force regression in the prisoner to make him
believe he is talking to his spouse. The prisoner is first prepared by
pharmaceuticals according to the following protocol. 1. An injection of 10 mg
sodium pentothal to render unconscious. 2. Wait 20 minutes. 3. An injection of
10 mg benzodrine to revive the prisoner to a state partway between waking and
sleep. 4. Repeat step 3 if required. At the end of the interrogation a
hypnotically induced amnesia is invoked.
NEUROLINGUISTICS – a
branch of psychology used by intelligence agencies and security services to
covertly manipulate unsuspecting human targets.
NEUTRON BOMBARDMENT –
used by security services like Britain's MI.5, America's FBI, Germany's BfV, and
France's DST to detect microdots and invisible writing in postal mail.
Originally developed by the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment in Britain for
use by MI.5.
NIGHTCRAWLER – a talent spotter who prowls bars
and nightclubs looking for government employees, military personnel, etc. who
can be compromised using booze, drugs, or sex. Also see TALENT SPOTTER.
NINJAS
– slang for members of a SWAT team.
NITROUS OXIDE – an
anesthetic inhalant used to render sleeping targets unconscious during
surreptitious entry by goon squads.
NMI – Norway's security
service.
NPA – National Peoples' Army, an underground group in
the Philippines.
NSA – US sigint intelligence agency and
security service, the National Security Agency. http://www.nsa.gov:8080/
NSS
– Bulgaria's security service.
NSTL – the FBI's national
security threat list.
OBS – Croatia's intelligence agency, the
Obavestajna Bezbednostna Sluzba.
OP – observation post.
OFFENSIVE
PENETRATION OPERATION – infiltration of an agent into a target group or
organization.
OFFSITE – a covert FBI site or facility situated
away from a field office.
OG – an acronym for original
gangmembers, now in their thirties and forties, who supply cocaine and heroin to
street gangs.
ONE-TIME PAD – an unbreakable code system that
works by adding the numeric value of the plaintext with a randomly-generated
code string (the one-time pad). Also see FIBONACCI SYSTEM.
OSA –
official secrets act, usually a law to enable governments to conceal their
mistakes from their own population.
OUTRIDER – a wheel artist
responsible for ensuring that the target does not get outside the floating box
of surveillance vehicles. See also FLOATING BOX.
OVERT TARGET –
deliberately attempts to draw attention and drain the resources of an
intelligence agency or security service. Occasionally a decoy.
PARALLEL-LINE/INCIDENTAL-CAPACITANCE
– a method of telephone, telex, and communications eavesdropping that is
virtually undetectable.
PAVEMENT ARTIST – outdoor surveillance
specialist operating on foot.
PEEP – photographer.
PERIMETER
SURVEILLANCE – is used to alert the surveillance team when the target
enters or leaves a specific area.
PETN – Pentaery-thritol
tetranitrate, a plastic explosive favored by intelligence agencies and security
services. See mercury fulminate.
PFLP – an underground group in
Palestine.
PHOTINT – acronym for photo intelligence.
PICKET
SURVEILLANCE – focuses on times and places when target is likely
engaged in activities of interest to the surveillance team. Also called
chokepoint surveillance. Named after the openings in a picket fence.
PICKUP
– when the target of a surveillance operation is first spotted inside the
stakeout box.
PINHOLE CAMERA – video camera with fiber-optic
lens attachment.
POSSE COMITATAS – a Latin phrase that loosely
means power of the people.
PROBLEM-SOLVING MATRIX – a
grid-based notation system used by police investigators and counterespionage
officers when dealing with complex cases.
PRODUCT – finished
intelligence that has been evaluated by an intelligence agency and is ready for
distribution to consumers. Also see CONSUMER.
PROFESSIONAL-NAME –
nom de guerre of a spy.
PROFILE STOP – a random stop and search
by police, based on a suspect's race, minority status, economic status,
religion, physical appearance, travel status, location, etc. Previously
inflicted on minorities and poor whites, but currently being expanded by
bureaucrats to include all US citizens.
PSB – one of China's
secret police agencies.
PSIA – one of Japan's security
services.
PSYCHIC COMBAT – a condition of active psychological
warfare operations between two covert adversaries.
PSYCHODYNAMICS –
the CIA's psychological profiling system, used in combination with
psychobiographic analysis.
QUANG BO – Vietnam's military
intelligence agency.
QODS – One of Iran's security services.
QRF
– quick reaction force.
RADINT – acronym for radar
intelligence.
RAID – an acronym for Rapid Assessment and
Initial Detection, consisting of teams of National Guardsmen who assist civilian
authorities after a suspected biological/toxin/chemical attack on a population
center.
RAVEN – a honey pot.
RCMP – police
agency in Canada similar to the FBI in the USA. Acronym for Royal Canadian
Mounted Police. Also known as RCM Police.
RCMP SECURITY SERVICE –
counterespionage, counterintelligence, and counterterrorist branch of RCMP. Also
known as RCMP SPECIAL SERVICES.
RED BRIGADE – an underground
group in Italy.
RENT-A-GOONS – operatives proficient in
hand-to-hand combat, used as muscle support when direct physical confrontation
is likely.
RESISTANCE – a civilian underground organization,
consisting of cells (1 to 10 persons), circles (a group of cells), and sections
(a group of circles).
RG – France's police intelligence
security service, Renseignements Generaux.
RING – a network of
spies or agents.
ROSCOE – handgun.
RUSE DE GUERRE –
subterfuge.
RZ – an underground group in Germany. Literally
translated as revolutionary cells.
SA – FBI special agent.
SAFEHOUSE
– a dwelling place or hideout unknown to the adversary.
SAPO –
Sweden's security service.
SASHA KVAP – Russian mole inside
Hitler's bunker during the final months of World War II. Subsequently poisoned
by the KGB in 1955.
SAVAK – one of Iraq's security services.
SCIF
– acronym for Secured Compartmentalized Information Facility (in Fort
Gillem, GA, USA) where Clipper is housed (rumored to have already been
penetrated by agents of China's intelligence agencies).
SEMTEX –
a military explosive suitable for sabotage and terrorist operations.
SECRET
CLASSIFICATIONS – Confidential, Secret, Top Secret, and (SCI) Special
Compartmentalized Information.
SERE – an acronym for survival,
evasion, resistance, and escape.
SERVICING – the act of
removing material from a dead drop.
SET UP – to begin to
conduct surveillance on a target.
SEVENTY-ONE YARDS – according
to FBI statistics, this is the distance at which a typical police sniper will
get you. Although the SR60 .308 sniper rifle used by most police departments is
designed for distances up to 600 yards, most police snipers do not fire at
suspects beyond 400 yards. (Of course, at any distance an execution is
still an execution.)
SHIN BETH – Israel's security service
(also called GSS).
SHINING PATH – an underground group in Peru.
SMERSH
– KGB assassination group. Officially disbanded ;) The name derives from
the Russian phrase "death to spies".
SIDE –
Argentina's security service.
SIGINT – signals intelligence
(interception of electronic communications)
SINN FEIN – the
political arm (party) of the IRA.
SIS – one of Britain's
intelligence agencies, the secret intelligence service.
SIT REP –
situation report.
SIX – slang for a police officer, police
cruiser, or a police patrol. Used as a warning in the criminal community.
SLEEPER
AGENT – an inactive deep-cover agent.
SLUZBA BEZPIECZENSTWA
– Poland's security service, also called the SB.
SOFT TARGET –
an easy surveillance target, untrained and not looking for surveillance.
SOG
– an acronym for Special Operations Group, FBI agents who conduct
surveillance. In contrast, SSG is composed of non-agents. See also SSG.
SOS
– dot dot dot dash dash dash dot dot dot.
SPECIAL BRANCH –
the security branch of the British police.
SPLASHED – describes
a bodyguard whose client has been assassinated. Also see WET AFFAIR.
SPOOK
– a spy.
SPY – any member of an intelligence agency,
security service, police agency, resistance movement, guerrilla group, or other
organization engaged in covert intelligence-gathering activities.
SRI
– Romania's security service (rumored to be made up of former members of
Ceausescu's secret police).
SSG – an acronym for Surveillance
Specialist Group, which is what the FBI calls a surveillance team. See also
INVESTIGATIVE SPECIALIST. See also SOG.
SSS – Georgia's
security service.
StB – Czechoslovakia's security service, the
Statni Tajna Bezpecnost.
STINGBALL – a flashbang grenade used
by SWAT teams to disperse crowds and disorient barricaded suspects. Throws off
rubber fragments when detonated. It is standard police procedure to cover up the
deaths of suspects inadvertently killed by stingballs.
STREET AGENT –
an FBI agent whose work takes him to various locations. Also see BRICK AGENT.
SVR
– one of Russia's intelligence agencies, the Slnzhba Vneshnei Razvedaki.
SWARMING
– overfilling a location with surveillance operatives. Often used in psy
ops as a means for controlling the target's environment.
SYNTHETIC
HEMOGLOBIN – a component used in carbon monoxoide detector alarms. The
radiation weapons recently developed and deployed by DARPA will set off these
alarms.
TALEBAN – underground group in Afghanistan.
TALENT
SPOTTER – same as ACCESS AGENT.
TARGET – the victim of
surveillance, the subject.
THERMAL IMAGER – a heat-sensitive
surveillance video camera and display.
THREE Bs – Booze,
broads, and bucars. The three temptations of FBI agents. (If the choice of words
offends our women readers, please remember that this is a phrase originated and
used by FBI agents. We are merely reporting it.)
THROW PHONE –
a cellular telephone thrown to a barricaded suspect by the SWAT team.
TRIADS
– Asian organized crime gangs.
TRIGGER – a surveillance
operative who is watching the target's vacant vehicle, home, garage, office,
restaurant etc. and who alerts the rest of the surveillance team when the target
is spotted.
TUPAMAROS – an underground group in Uruguay.
UACB
– FBI acronym for Unless Advised to the Contrary by the Bureau.
UNITED
RED ARMY – an underground group in Japan.
UNS –
Croatia's security service, the Ured za Nacionalnu Sigurnost.
UNSUB –
an unknown subject in a surveillance operation.
UOP – Poland's
security service.
USSA – slang for a USA reminiscent of the
oppressive totalitarianism of the former USSR.
VCP – vehicle
control point.
VEVAK – Iran's intelligence agency.
VICKIE
WEAVER – American citizen probably murdered by the FBI. A landmark case
for many concerned Americans.
WAHABI – a Saudi Islamic
underground group .
WALK-IN – an unsolicited volunteer.
WATCH-LIST
– people targeted for routine surveillance.
WET AFFAIR –
results in death of target. Also see SPLASHED.
WHEEL ARTIST –
an outdoor surveillance specialist operating in a vehicle.
WILDERNESS OF
MIRRORS – a spy operation so complicated that it is no longer possible
to separate truth and untruth.
X RAYS – used by intelligence
agencies and security services to pick key-locks and to deduce the settings for
combination locks. Equipment fits in a standard briefcase.
ZAPATISTA
NATIONAL LIBERATION ARMY – an underground group in Mexico.
ZERO-OUT
– the range at which a weapon's sights will produce a bull's eye hit.
Handgun fixed sights are usually zeroed-out at 25 yards. A sniper rifle scope is
usually zeroed-out at 100 yards. The term cold barrel zero refers to the
calibration of a SWAT sniper rifle so that the first (cold) shot will hit a
target at 100 yards. Subsequent rounds will diverge due to barrel heating.
ZHONGYANG
LIANLUOBU – one of China's intelligence agencies.
ZOU-HOU-MAN
– back door access to a protected target (as used by China's intelligence
agencies).