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Spycraft
A Spy’s
Introductory Guide
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Espionage Spycraft
A Spy’s Introductory Guide
The world of espionage is indeed complex and known by few men. Isn't it
teaches you to think like a spy. Be careful, Espionage Spycraft will also
seduce you with its easy style of explanation. Beware; are you being set
surreptitiously observing you? Are signals being passed to those thugs near
the entrance? If you have not read Espionage Spycraft, your clandestinity
skills will have gaps in them. It is those gaps and vulnerabilities that may
you are to survive in that future police state that looms over the sinister
horizon.
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An old intelligence hand’s American style view of espionage: “One spring day
during the late war, a young officer came into a room in Tempo-L, the long
shoulders and bulging biceps, and a huge round head in which two laughing eyes
flashed under bushy eyebrows. He often came over from his office a few doors
away to discuss the war and tell stories whose punch lines,' shouted in ribald
Now he seemed solemn and, while his eyes still shone, they had a different
luster. This office was hardly a place for histrionics. There was nothing romantic in
the bare environment, the desks, the typewriters, the maps on the wall, and the
huge safe with its combination locks. He stretched out his hand, and his comrades
two, at least one man in that room came to feel something of the great difference
dignity, often not apparent in the methods it is forced to employ, for espionage,
aware of its responsibilities. It is justified by the fact that all nations conceal
acquire information about things concealed which may influence or threaten their
This book was written from the standpoint of the American view of
intelligence and espionage. The editor of this e-book does not agree with the
American view of intelligence and espionage but this e-book was written to provide
sources are quoted. In some cases more than a third of a chapter may be
ensconced in quotation marks. This is necessary so that the reader will be able to
grasp the strange outlook of so many western researchers who have the temerity
Along with that, the diligent reader will notice that some of the action
described in the book takes place during the period which might be described as
the USSR’s espionage pinnacle. It was a time when most of the intelligence
agencies of the western world were not only manipulated, but controlled. Before
you find that difficult to believe, just remember that some of the material that
you read herein, which sounds dated, is still relevant. The actors and directors may
secrecy into a fetish and an institution, and have set up elaborate machinery to
protect their secrets. They have enacted severe laws to safeguard them. The
United States has a complicated system of espionage laws and security regulations.
Britain depends upon its Official Secrets Act of 1889, which punishes an official
for communication of information concerning the military and naval affairs of Her
describes the keeping of secrets as "the fundamental duty" of every citizen, and
calls the betrayal of secrets "one of the most heinous crimes." An American judge
once called the betrayal of US atomic secrets "worse than murder." Nations rate
their secrets equivalent to human life and frequently punish the betrayers of
viewpoint being that of the Soviet Union, where even production figures of
as her first line of defense. Of course Vishinsky is correct and only the lazy,
the location of the plant where it is manufactured. It may conceal the position of a
single military unit in a tactical situation or the strategic plans of an entire army.
Naturally, a potentially aggressive nation must obscure its intention of making war
There are today all kinds of secrets, little secrets and big secrets, state
secrets and military secrets, official secrets and private secrets. Secrecy has
always been recognized as one of the main conditions of success in war, as a highly
The very fact that concealment exists, and that it is maintained for the
advantage of one side, makes it imperative that the opposition penetrate the
Some years ago, during an interview in England, Captain Franz von Ritelen,
one of the most successful German spies of the First World War, said: "Each
them. By the, same token, each country is entitled to find out the secrets of other
countries. You have to approach espionage in the spirit in which Darwin regarded
vivisection. It is justifiable for real investigation, but not for mere damnable and
made between intelligence proper and espionage. However, the wise nation clamps a
for a proper appreciation of the activity that is outlined in detail in the following
chapters.
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