3) Observation Skills People always imagine that when you become a spy you will always have guns and gadgets to help you. Well, that is simply not true. Guns are showy and if you use one then something has probably gone dreadfully wrong with your “undercover” operation. Gadgets are fine …
Widespread television coverage was recently given to Vladimir Putin’s celebration of “Russian Navy Day”. There were all the speeches, parades and razzamatazz that Putin loves. But, behind the scenes, the GUR, the Ukrainian military intelligence service, had been busy. Russian marines were pleased to find messages of support on their …
2) Show that you are a “people hacker.” The essential work of an intelligence officer is to recruit sources i.e. to persuade other people to give their secrets to you. So, one of the skills you will need to show is an understanding of human psychology and how to use …
A new Soviet agent from the “Golden Age” of Cold War spying has just been uncovered for the first time. He is UK citizen Nicholas Burby and he worked for the Czech StB from 1980 to 1989. (StB = Statni Bezpecnost, the Czech intelligence service). Burby was a military aviation …
Spies are trained to see things differently from everybody else. They see people differently, they see the streets differently and they see world events differently. Civil unrest in Hong Kong is becoming worse. What started as a simple protest against a piece of legislation is rapidly disintegrating into a direct …