The Red Corporation
chen di yu “fish at the bottom of the ocean”
2019
2019
Long-term agents are known as chen di yu, or “fish at the bottom of the ocean,” what Westerners would call “sleeper agents.” Though they likely constitute the minority of Chinese agents, they provide most of the high-value intelligence. Before going overseas, long-term agents with foreign visas are often recruited through their danwei, or traditional Chinese work units, by local MSS intelligence officers. These “fish” are identified, recruited and trained months before departure, and they are deployed mainly to gather intelligence, develop networks and, in some cases, influence foreign policy and spread disinformation in the host country.
de facto hung hom
2018
2018
is a legal term meaning "in fact" or "in reality", which is used to qualify many legal terms. For example, de fact segregation refers to segregation which occurs without any official action by government officials, but results from social, psycholological, or economic conditions.
a lower echelon of the surveillance apparatus
2019
2019
ECHELON, originally a secret government code name, is a surveillance program (signals intelligence/SIGINT collection and analysis network) operated by the US with the aid of four other signatory nations to the UKUSA Security Agreement:[1] Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United Kingdom, also known as the Five Eyes.
back for a black bag job
2018
2018
Black bag operations (or black bag jobs) are covert or clandestine entries into structures to obtain information for human intelligence operations. This usually entails breaking and entering into denied areas. Some of the tactics, techniques and procedures associated with black bag operations are: lock picking, safe cracking, key impressions, fingerprinting, photography, electronic surveillance (including audio and video surveillance), mail manipulation (flaps and seals), forgery, and a host of other related skills.
The term "black bag" refers to the small bag in which burglars carry their tools.
The term "black bag" refers to the small bag in which burglars carry their tools.
THE RED CORPORATION
Spies Amongs Us
Spies Amongs Us
twofish
the eagle
honeytrap
brush past
the swallow
pan tilt zoom
the throwaway
dead letter drop
for your ears only
from Russia with love
a wilderness of mirrors
the station West Kowloon
teacher teller stockbroker spy
assume nothing and question everything