Want to spy, learn a language. Live in country.
Hang out on Weibo.
Post internet there's to much info already available to analyse.
In 1980 you were going into the country to read the newspaper.
Down on 'The Farm': Learning How to Spy for the CIA (1980)
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#12> Contacted recently, Turnicky said there was nothing he could reveal. "My job's very enjoyable. It's very simple. Goodby," he said politely, hanging up the phone.
Sounds like the CIA is using the same playbook as my country's public services.
Re: Down on 'The Farm': Learning How to Spy for the CIA (1980)
#13> For nearly 25 years, neophyte spies have left Washington to attend what some call Spy U., a training base here operated by the Central Intelligence Agency to prepare its agents for real-life cloak-and-dagger work overseas. Seems bonkers to train spies in one location like this. Much better to move the teachers/curriculum. Foreign governments must have most of their reconnaissance aimed right here, at least back in…
If you have ever thought, "why hasn't the CIA done this before?" then they probably have. It's like laymen discussing algorithmic finance. "Why don't people just trade the mean reversion?" They've been trading mean reversion since you were in diapers. It's important to remember the Dunning Kruger effect regarding intelligence agencies like the CIA, those in the business of what's known and unknown, because their job…
> If you have ever thought, "why hasn't the CIA done this before?" then they probably have.
Exactly. Like when they killed Fidel Castro and then prevented 9/11 and then figured out that Saddam had no WMD and then
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#15Regardless of whether a facility's association may be known or not, government folks are trained on good "OpSec", or operational security.