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	A Compendium of Analytic Tradecraft Notes - contents (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Tradecraft Notes have become a standard reference within CIA for practitioners and teachers of intelligence analysis.
		The revised compendium contains 10 Tradecraft Notes issued to analysts during March-December 1995, plus a new Foreword by John Gannon, Deputy Director for Intelligence.
		CIA has made this edition of the compendium available to the public to help shed light on how the Directorate of Intelligence meets the daily challenges of providing timely, accurate, and rigorous analysis to intelligence consumers.
	www.au.af.mil /au/awc/awcgate/cia/tradecraft_notes/contents.htm (129 words)

	Cold Reading Tradecraft \| Mentalism Cold Reading \| Books \| eBooks
		It appears to be nothing less than a genuine demonstration of extrasensory perception, ESP. This is the power of cold reading - a process used by professional psychics, mind readers, fortunetellers, intuitive counselors and guides, and mentalists.
		Only our concise "how-to" manual, TRADECRAFT, takes you step-by-step through the process of developing YOUR OWN cold reading abilities - from gaining a solid grasp of the underlying scientific principles at work to the practical application of specific methods and techniques.
		TRADECRAFT takes the form of a straight-forward no-nonsense manual, similar in format to last year's excellent Mastering Hypnosis from the same publisher...
	www.trickshop.com /tradecraft_cold_reading_book.html (789 words)

	COUNTERING TERRORISM: THE ISRAELI RESPONSE TO THE 1972 MUNICH OLYMPIC MASSACRE AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF INDEPENDENT ...
		Complacency and lack of good operation tradecraft procedures played a big part in the failure, but the primary failure rested in expecting successful results from an operation which was not feasible within the system's constraints.
		They melded their operational tradecraft experience in the preparation and implementation of each action without political interference.
		When the teams were allowed to conduct their operations utilizing good tradecraft and tactical techniques, success was almost assured.
	www.fas.org /irp/eprint/calahan.htm (18053 words)

	Spy Dust: Glossary of Spy Terms
		Moscow rules - The ultimate tradecraft methods for use in the most hostile of the operational environments.
		Develops and deploys technical tradecraft needed for clandestine and covert operations.
		tradecraft - The methods developed by intelligence operatives to conduct their operations.
	www.themasterofdisguise.com /glossary.html (3759 words)

	Tradecraft: Practices (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		When used by two people who have basic skills in countersurveillance, this method has confounded surveillance.
		You need to know three pieces of tradecraft:
		This means choosing a spot where you're momentarily hidden from view while you pass by (and either load or empty the box).
	www.tradecraft.org /deaddrop.html (223 words)

	Special Operations.Com
		The STC's primary training focus is on basic tradecraft skills such as weapons handling, explosives, infiltration and exfiltration technique.
		It is not unusual for students attending the Basic Operations Course (required of all Case Officers) to travel to nearby Williamsburg to practice their skills in a real-world environment.
		G8's was originally based in the valley of Aina Haina, on the island of Oahu, in the city of Honolulu, Hawaii.
	www.specialoperations.com /Domestic/CIA/SAS/Default.html (2246 words)

	Studies In Intelligence Vol. 01 No. 1, 1997 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		In addition, some frontline DI officers--myself included--would take exception to the idea that the concepts put forth in Tradecraft 2000 truly represent new thinking.
		Much of it is merely a return to the basics of DI tradecraft that many of us in the Directorate seem to have forgotten.
		But the new DI analyst, and more than a few old hands, would be well served by remembering these 15 principles in their everyday conduct, as I suspect that many will never be adopted officially.
	www.odci.gov /csi/studies/97unclass/axioms.html (1905 words)

	::: UNITED STATES GEOSPATIAL INTELLIGENCE FOUNDATION :::
		Their decision to join the Foundation further reinforces the its vital role as the forum for individuals, companies and organizations that work in geospatial intelligence to come together for the benefit of the tradecraft.
		In addition, USGIF is now accepting applications for Geospatial Intelligence Achievement Award, which recognizes outstanding achievement in the tradecraft by an individual or team from each of four sectors: government, industry, military and academia.
		The foundation’s vision is to build an accredited institution to support the professional education needs of the geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) tradecraft and thereby assure its continuance as a critical part of our country’s homeland and national security.
	www.usgif.org (1031 words)

	Chronic underfunding of US HUMINT plays role in intelligence failures - Jane's International Security News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		While national technical means continued to receive high levels of funding for surveillance satellites, signals intelligence flights, and other eavesdropping technologies, human-based intelligence capabilities have withered.
		Areas such as analysis, linguist skills, cultivation of agent networks, and "tradecraft" were all of paramount importance during the Cold War, particularly before the advent of space-based intelligence assets, but have suffered a lack of resources of late.
		This shortfall has been exacerbated by the growing demand that increased emphasis on technical intelligence has placed on the people who must process the vast amounts of resulting data and prioritise it.
	www.janes.com /security/international_security/news/jdw/jdw010911_1_n.shtml (635 words)

	Review Book Tradecraft Cold Reading
		There is a feeling of relief upon reading the opening paragraph, in that someone else has done all the work, all the research, and here is the result: concise commentary and information - waiting to be absorbed.
		The layout is excellent, the content spot-on, and it's a real pleasure to read.
		To order a copy of Tradecraft - The Art and Science of Cold Reading direct from Trickshop.com
	www.magicweek.co.uk /magic_reviews/review_book_tradecraft_cold_reading.htm (207 words)

	Over the Top Licenced Cyber Cafe, Kirkgate, Cockermouth, Cumbria. The Story.
		In June 1985, two months before they were married, Jonty and Edwina opened Over the Top in the rooms above the new Tradecraft shop.
		A few years later Tradecraft moved to new premises and Over the Top moved downstairs (keeping the name) to the rooms they still occupy today.
		The picture on the left shows the original cafe where the first meal was sold for a bargain price of 62 pence due to a slight oversight (forgetting to add any profit).
	www.overthetopcafe.co.uk /restaurant_cafe.html (240 words)

	2002 Pulitzer Prizes-NATIONAL REPORTING, Works
		Elfatih Erwa, then minister of state for defense, arrived unannounced at the Hyatt Arlington on March 3, 1996.
		Using standard tradecraft, he checked into one room and then walked to another, across Wilson Boulevard from the Rosslyn Metro.
		Carney and Shinn were waiting for him, but the meeting was run by covert operatives from the CIA's Africa division.
	www.pulitzer.org /year/2002/national-reporting/works/100301a.html (2015 words)

	An Assessment of the Aldrich H. Ames Espionage Case and Its Implications for U.S. Intelligence - Senate Select ...
		In essence, the information suggested that each of the cases had been compromised due to poor tradecraft on the part of either the sources itself or the CIA officers involved.
		While the opinion of CIA officers varied as to whether the new information was genuine, it clearly created a stir and required time consuming analysis over the next two years.
		Investigators were also continuing to analyze the information provided a year earlier by a KGB officer, who had provided information indicating that the 1985 86 losses were a result of poor CIA tradecraft.
	www.fas.org /irp/congress/1994_rpt/ssci_ames.htm (20263 words)

	Consortiumnews.com
		With his blue-blood connections and his CIA experience, George H.W. Bush understood the expediency of truth.
		From his CIA tradecraft, the elder Bush also knew how a population could be manipulated through lies, which could then be covered up or forgotten in the glow of victory.
		As CIA chief in 1976, the elder Bush led the counterattack against the historic congressional and press investigations of CIA abuses, including the agency’s involvement in assassinations of foreign leaders.
	www.consortiumnews.com /2003/071803a.html (2949 words)

	FBI Press Room - Press Release - 2000 - Veteran FBI Agent Arrested and Charged with Espionage
		As a result of his assignments, Hanssen had direct and legitimate access to voluminous information about sensitive programs and operations.
		As the complaint alleges, Hanssen effectively used his training, expertise and experience as a counterintelligence Agent to avoid detection, to include keeping his identity and place of employment from his Russian handlers and avoiding all the customary "tradecraft" and travel usually associated with espionage.
		The turning point in this investigation came when the FBI was able to secure original Russian documentation of an American spy who appeared to the FBI to be Hanssen, which subsequent investigation confirmed.
	www.fbi.gov /pressrel/pressrel01/hanssen.htm (1111 words)

	USATODAY.com - Insurgents gain a deadly edge in intelligence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		A series of bombings last week in Baghdad caught U.S. commanders completely by surprise, according to two U.S. military sources in Iraq.
		A defense intelligence official says Iraqi guerrillas are sophisticated in covert tradecraft.
		They "compartmentalize" information, so no one operative knows enough to compromise an operation if caught.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2003-11-04-intelligence-usat_x.htm (1683 words)

	ISHI - Institute for the Study of Health and Illness at Commonweal
		A Tradecraft Training in Transformative Education for Physicians and Other Health Professionals
		The innovative methods used in ISHI's retreats for professionals and the 12 year old Healer's Art course at UCSF School of Medicine interweave experiential, didactic and contemplative work in a discovery model useful to those designing retreats, support groups and day-long programs for physicians and other health professionals.
		This Tradecraft workshop will enable educational leaders to apply ISHI's proven strategies to the unique needs of their own postgraduate or undergraduate groups.
	www.commonweal.org /ishi/programs/works.html (549 words)

	BBC News \| UK POLITICS \| Net surveillance 'fatally flawed'
		None of these options can prevent hiding of information or steganography.
		Spies and terrorists have long used tradecraft such as chalk marks on a park bench, or everyday language with a veiled meaning.
		In cyberspace, these equate to an innocent phrase in a chat-room, or weaving the bits comprising a message into a sound or picture file so it cannot be detected.
	news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/uk/newsid_1569000/1569874.stm (680 words)

	Federal Bureau of Investigation - Press Room - Congressional Testimony
		The al-Qaeda terrorist network headed by Usama Bin Laden is clearly the most urgent threat to US interests.
		The evidence linking al-Qaeda to the attacks of September 11 is clear and irrefutable, and our investigation of the events leading up to 9/11 has given rise to important insights into terrorist tactics and tradecraft, which will prove invaluable as we work to prevent the next attack.
		There is no question that al-Qaeda and other terrorist networks have proven adept at defending their organizations from US and international law enforcement efforts.
	www.fbi.gov /congress/congress03/mueller021103.htm (4695 words)

	How Aaron Wall games Google
		It's basically a covert gaming technique that uses old schemes covered up with vague and questionable content, while denying that such schemes have any relevance at all.
		In spy tradecraft, they call this a "cover story." The A-list of bloggers, who cannot see past their own brown noses, are buying into it uncritically.
		An average lawyer, working for an average 40-person New Orleans law firm, creams all of America's East-coast heavy-hitter law firms with his backlink count on Google.
	www.google-watch.org /gaming.html (2805 words)

	anthrax2001
		During this time it is established fact that Atta was communicating with a terrorist contact in Germany.
		It is known that he was using tradecraft code in these contacts - he used the code "Two sticks, a dash and a cake with a stick down" to convey to his contact the intended date of the 9/11 attack.
		But perhaps it has not been so well publicized that his tradecraft also included something else.
	anthrax2001.blogspot.com (16740 words)

	Intelligence Tradecraft and Technologies - Where do Librarians fit in? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Intelligence Tradecraft and Technologies - Where do Librarians fit in?
		This paper explores the interface between technology and an organisation's business, particularly focusing on the strategic decision-making process and the critical role of intelligence in this process.
		It is the author's firm belief that, if you take the time to experiment with them, and build them around your existing processes, these tools will help change your role, your status, and who knows, even your budget, in the organisations for whom you work.
	conferences.alia.org.au /online2003/papers/ford.html (4483 words)

	CNN.com - Transcript of news conference on Jose Padilla - Jun 1, 2004
		Atef no doubt spotted the tremendous value this American terrorist offered because he met with him again several times, even giving Padilla money to go back to Egypt to visit his wife.
		In early 2001, Padilla walked into the American consulate in Karachi, Pakistan, and said his passport had been lost in a market in Karachi and got a new one: a classic act of al Qaeda tradecraft designed to eliminate suspicious travel stamps and cover the nature of the traveler's work.
		In April 2000, having completed his basic terrorist training and having found a mentor in the military leader of al Qaeda, Mohammed Atef, Padilla departed Karachi, Pakistan, and returned to Egypt, ending his first trip to Afghanistan.
	www.cnn.com /2004/LAW/06/01/comey.padilla.transcript (4970 words)

	Information Warfare - Defense
		Such recruiting was intense at the hacker convention DEFCON III, held August 4 to 6, 1995, in Las Vegas.
		At DEFCON III sessions were held on hacking the latest communications protocols (ATM and Frame Relay); the development and distribution of polymorphic software code (code that dynamically changes and adapts to the computer it is installed on); the penetration of health maintenance organizations and insurance companies; and the vulnerabilities of telephone systems.
		This know-how and tradecraft is transportable and is shared on the 400-plus hacker bulletin boards, worldwide.
	swissnet.ai.mit.edu /6805/articles/iwdmain.htm (15889 words)

	Black Blog Ops
		Was your information genuine or planted, or did the Soviets or East Germans or someone else want you to think it was planted, and would you let them know that you knew?
		It was wonderful stuff--moles, tradecraft, honeypots, and Cubans attached to the United Nations.
		Fifteen years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, we are a much less suspicious people when it comes to disinformation.
	www.weeklystandard.com /Content/Public/Articles/000/000/004/233uylts.asp (635 words)

	Hack Proofing Your Network: Internet Tradecraft - The Community's Center for Security (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Hack Proofing Your Network: Internet Tradecraft - The Community's Center for Security
		The first chapter is now available online for 'Hack Proofing Your Network: Internet Tradecraft.' "Systems and software packages are being connected to the internet at an astounding rate.
		Many of these systems and packages were not designed with security in mind.
	www.linuxsecurity.com /content/view/108193/65 (244 words)

	Salon.com Politics \| Restoring the imperial presidency (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		FBI spying on political rallies and religious communities?
		The White House plumbers practiced their tradecraft breaking into the psychiatric records of dissident Defense Department analyst Daniel Ellsberg.
		The "enemies list" grew from FBI director J. Edgar Hoover's decades of spying on religious, civil rights and peace groups.
	www.salon.com /politics/feature/2002/06/17/bush_watergate/print.html (1258 words)

	Georgetown Special Collections: Diplomacy, International Affairs, Intelligence
		Among the modern treasures of the library is the remarkable collection of books on the subjects of intelligence, spying, covert activities, and related fields assembled by Col. Russell J. Bowen.
		The collection numbers more than 14,000 titles, including works on cryptography, signals intelligence, tradecraft of all kinds, and the application of modern technology to intelligence gathering.
		Approximately 5,300 titles are listed in the now out of date printed bibliography of the collection as it then existed, Scholars' Guide to Intelligence Literature (1983), with subject and title indices.
	gulib.lausun.georgetown.edu /dept/speccoll/diplo.htm (4758 words)

	COVERT OPS: Cool Free Stuff plus DVD's, Action Movies, T-Shirt, Gifts, Spy Books and Gear, Games
		Starring Harrison Ford - Pay particular attention to the vehicle ambush and assassination scene.
		Starring Michael Caine - Some of the best intelligence tradecraft on film.
		Starring George Clooney - Good overall tactics, realistic attitudes, good driving until the end of the scene.
	www.incredible-adventures.com /covert_ops_sales.html (706 words)

	Alexander Cockburn: a Journey into Rupert Murdoch's Soul
		It would have been remarkable for Rupert to develop in non-authoritarian fashion, given his inheritance.
		When his father died he had neither graduated from university, nor gained any real newspaper tradecraft.
		In order to take control of what was then News Limited, under the trust Sir Keith established, Rupert had to accept his father as a paragon of journalistic integrity: to convince the trustees, believers in that myth, of his desire to emulate it.
	www.counterpunch.org /cockburn12272003.html (3778 words)

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