I will let you into a little secret…
Espionage is the art of stealing secrets. It’s as simple as that. It’s shocking, I know!
stealingIt is a trade as old as time, but in order to effectively carry on doing that, spies have to operate in a clandestine manner. So for all you budding intelligence officers and secret agents, please remember that fundamentally, we are collecting information but we are doing it in such a way that no one knows that we are doing it.
And for all the technology and advancement in equipment, the same staples from hundreds of years ago, I would submit, have changed little and are still just as effective. It is the art of watching, listening and talking. It is about that human understanding of the source that you are trying to elicit information from, having that u
