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Spotting counterintelligence threats in your group

A provocateur is someone who is in place to entice people in a group to take certain actions that would be detrimental to their cause, or otherwise beneficial to and outside and competing cause. In this case, the provocateurs were aiming for criminal actions. A probe is in place more as a means of collecting information and passing it to an outside handler. Also called a mole, these people can work their way into the higher levels of a large group and gain access to deeper information.

By admin|2020-01-09T06:00:21-05:00January 9, 2020|Grey Man, Intelligence|14 Comments

A Brief on Developing Commo Plans with HUMINT Sources

You'll have to break down your whole commo plan into three parts, those being your primary commo plan, your secondary commo plan and your contingency commo plan. You can think of that last one as an emergency plan.

By admin|2019-11-13T06:00:21-05:00November 13, 2019|Grey Man, Intelligence|1 Comment

T.E. Lawrence, a master of guerrilla warfare.

Having read several substantial texts on Lawrence, one takes notice of a favorite tactic, that is the destruction of railroads used by the Ottomans to move troops from one stronghold to another. On at least several occasions, Lawrence himself used explosives to destroy rails and trains, allowing only a small band of Bedouin Arabs to outmatch larger numbers of soldiers who were simply trying to escape the destruction. This caused the Ottomans to commit larger amounts of resources to defending areas that otherwise had little strategic value. When the Ottomans moved soldiers to a location, Lawrence and his wild band of fighters would simply leave and attack the next vulnerable target.

By admin|2019-10-01T06:00:53-04:00October 1, 2019|Grey Man, History, Philosophy|7 Comments