How to Be an International Spy: Your Training Manual, Should You Choose to Accept It

82 Pages·2015·221.17 MB·English

by  Andy Eriggs

How to be an
InternatIonal
Spy
Acknowledgements
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contents
SpIes lIke Us out In the Stealth Aircraft 121
6 FIeld
Satellites 122
68
Types of Secrets 8 Make Your Own Gadgets 124
Types of Spies 9 Getting Ready for
Spies in History 10 Field Work 70 The Internet
The Great War 12 Tracking 72 128
World War II 14 The Human Trail 74
Mind-Bending Encryption 130
The Cold War 16 Fingerprints 76
Prime Numbers 132
Surveillance 78
Digital Footprints 134
Shadowing 80
WhIch SIde Are Cyber Attack! 138
You on? Spotting a Tail 82
Threats 140
18 Recognizing People 84
Malware 142
Transform! 86
Spying in the USA 20 Sabotage 144
Clothing 88
And the Others... 24 Mobile Malware 145
Spy Rings 90
Spying in the UK 28 Up Close and Personal 146
Radio Chatter 92
Spying in Russia 32 Big Brother 147
Getting Caught 94
Spying in China 36 Surveillance in Action! 148
Secret Signs 96
Spying in Israel 38 Protect Yourself 150
Diversions 98
Spying in France 40 Track the Agent! 152
Going off the Grid 100
Five Eyes – FVEY 42
The Spy
AnImal SpIes
double challenge!
102
IdentIty 154
44
The Unusual Suspects 105
Little Spies 106
Code Names 46
Glossary
Build Your Own HQ 48
156
Security Measures 50 Awesome
Gadgets
None Shall Pass 52
108
Index
code breakIng I See You! 110 158
54 Stop Bugging Me! 111
Keeping Control 112
Common Codes 56
Cool Cars 114
Steganography 60
Spy Boats 116
Invisible Ink 62
Spy Planes 118
Numbers Stations 64
Drones 120
Quantum Encryption 66
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In this book you will discover what it takes to be a spy.
Learn the art of SECRET CODES, practise tailing people
to be to a spy?
and building secret dossiers, discover amazing GADGETS
and much more. At the end of some sections you will get
Well it’s going to a heads-up on KEYWORDS to remember and each step
involve a lot of tough will elevate you from the rank of RECRUIT through to
preparation. Only the a full-blown SECRET AGENT.
very best recruits can
To be a successful spy, you must first know what it is a spy
become fully fledged
actually does. Let’s see what the dictionary says:
agents who we trust
out in the field.
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TYPES OF SECRETS
Can you keep a secret? If you can’t then
TYPES OF SPIES
you’re going to have real trouble – it’s
one of the most important aspects of
the job! The secrets you might
be dealing with fall into three
MIlITARY SECREtS
basic areas:
MOlES SlEEPER AGENtS
Knowing how many troops the enemy
has, where they are located and how well Moles are hidden deep within governments Sleepers don’t fall asleep on the job (never a
they are armed is vital to any country, or organizations. As part of their job they will wise move for any spy!). Instead, they work their
especially in times of war. Knowing the have access to secret files, although they won’t way through the ranks of governments or other
strength of an enemy means you can usually steal these unless instructed to do so. organizations, accessing secrets that would
find weak points or launch surprise otherwise be almost impossible to get. Sleeper
DOUblE AGENtS
attacks against them. But it’s not just agents often don’t spy for many years and are only
governments who try to discover such These sneaky spies often pretend to spy for activated when needed.
information; military secrets can also one country, when in fact they are spying for
DEFECtORS
be used by terrorists to pick out targets another. For example, an American agent spying
and find their weaknesses. in Russia decides to pass false information back Sometimes you just don’t agree with the boss
INDUsTRIAL SECREtS
to America while actually passing on secret and want to switch sides. That makes you a
Imagine a technology company learning
information to the Russians. The real skill of defector, and a very dangerous person at that.
the secrets of a competitor months
a double agent is creating and distributing If you become a defector, you’ll have to watch
before they announce a new phone –
disinformation – information that sounds real your back at all times.
then immediately launching their own
enough but is actually a lie.
version based on this stolen technology.
Or a pharmaceutical company releasing
a new drug before their rival, who spent
many years developing it. This kind
of industrial and corporate espionage
really does happen!
POlITICAL SECREtS
From blackmailing politicians
about their private lives through to
discovering sensitive information
about a country’s economy,
political secrets are just as valuable
as technological ones. Imagine
knowing how a government intends
to act towards other countries – and
even who they are spying on.
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REAL SPIES
SPIES IN HISTORY Name:
JAMES ARMIsTEAD lAFAYEttE
During the American Revolution, Lafayette
became the first Afro-American double
agent when he began spying on the
You might have seen the glamour and adventure of spies British. Lafayette was a slave when war
through characters like James Bond and think that spycraft is a broke out and was (remarkably) granted
modern invention – but that’s not the case. The art of spying is permission to join the army. He then
posed as a runaway slave and infiltrated
an ancient and respected one, occurring around the world and
British General Benedict Arnold’s camp.
across many cultures. Spying has been used throughout history
so that armies and governments could gain the upper hand.
ANCIENT EGYPT Spies In The Bible The art of War The Frumentarii A SPY OF WORDS The Great Game
The earliest recorded example of The crafty Hittites Meanwhile, in ancient In ancient Rome, you There are rumours that playwright In the mid 1830s the
spying comes from ancient Egypt weren’t the only China, military couldn’t even trust the William Shakespeare was a spy for term ‘The Great Game’
around 1274 bc. During the war historical figures doing general Sun Tzu wheat collectors – the England. The finger has also been was used to describe
between Pharaoh Ramesses and some shady spying, spoke of how useful Roman equivalent of the pointed at the man who influenced the increasing rivalry
a group called the Hittites, spies The Old Testament is spies were in his tax man. While Rome Shakespeare – Christopher between Britain and
were sent into the Egyptian camp, littered with examples famous book, The didn’t have an organized Marlowe. Russia over the Central
posing as deserting soldiers. They of espionage. One Art of War (a manual spying network, the Asian region, although
While at university, Marlowe had
convinced the Egyptians that the example from the Book about how to conduct wheat collectors, known there was nothing
several unexplained absences
enemy army was much further of Numbers sees Moses warfare, not paint as the Frumentarii, fun about it. An
during which he claimed to be
away than it really was. The cocky sending out spies to it, in case you were performed the same intense bout of spying
engaged in ‘matters of benefit to
Pharaoh believed the spies and check the land ahead confused). duties as the Secret occurred between both
his country’.
marched some of his men into an when the Israelites Service. Because they sides until war broke
ambush. reached the borders of had access to locals and Some say his mysteriously early out in Afghanistan.
Canaan. native lands, Emperor death was a cover for him to Sandwiched between
Hadrian used them change identity, becoming William India and Russia, it was
to sneakily gather Shakespeare himself! If he was an important strategic
intelligence. a spy, then he was a good one, country to claim (sadly,
leaving a trail of mystery that still this is still a reason for
hasn’t been untangled. ongoing conflict there
almost 200 years later).
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THE GREAT WAR
REAL SPIES REAL SPIES
Spying rose to a peak during World War I (1914–1918)
and it became a particularly deadly game to play.
When 11 German spies were caught in Britain, they
were sentenced to death at the hands of the firing
squad at the Tower of London.
During the war, espionage Paranoia peaked when two
techniques became ever more cats and a dog were spotted
daring and paranoia rippled repeatedly crossing British
Name: Name:
through the public. Anything trenches, leading officers to
MARGARETHA GEERTRUIDA lUDOVICO ZENDER
and everything was used to suspect that the animals had
ZEllE MAClEOD
convey secret messages – been planted by the enemy to Also known as: THE SARDINE SPY
loaves of bread, the whirling relay messages! Also known as: MATA HARI
arms of a windmill and even The war was the start of spy Margaretha Geertruida Zelle German secret agent, Ludovico
steam locomotives, which spat MacLeod – better known as Mata Zender, traded canned fish to Peru.
tradecraft as we know it now;
out Morse code messages (see Hari – was a Dutch exotic dancer But hidden in his invoices for sardines
page 56 for more on Morse). the very skills you are about to who lived in Paris. She wooed Allied were coded details of British shipping
learn in order to complete your generals into revealing wartime movements along the Scottish
training. secrets, which she then passed on to coast. He was caught in 1915 when
the Germans. When she was finally the British authorities noticed that
caught and arrested, she had to face sardines were not in season in the
the firing squad for her crimes. winter. He was the last spy to be
executed at the Tower of London.
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WORLD WAR 11 During the war, the importance
of keeping secrets was taught
across the Allied countries,
using slogans and posters like
these:
When war broke out again in 1939,
intelligence agencies were ready.
This was a time of great
technological innovations for
espionage – the most notable being
Germany’s Enigma Machine (see
page 55).
One of the ingenious ways of sending
secret communications during World
War II was by using special agents
called Code Talkers. They used obscure
languages to pass on messages, and the
more successful teams were America’s
Native Americans. As only a small amount
of people could speak languages such
as Navajo, they could confidently add a
further code on top of that and no-one
would be any the wiser. Hitler knew the
Americans had used Code Talkers in the
First World War, so he sent people to try to
learn the obscure language, but it proved
too difficult!
REAL SPIES
Name:
REAL SPIES
Name: VIRGINIA HAlL
FREDERICK JOUbERT Also known as: Artemis
DUQUESNE
Artemis was the German codename for
Also known as: The Black Panther American secret agent Virginia Hall. She
volunteered to work for the SOE (Special
Duquesne was South African by birth
Operations Executive) and headed
and a German spy. He hated the British
into Vichy, France to help the French
so much that he spied for Germany in
Resistance. After the war she successfully
both World Wars. He was supposedly
worked for the CIA. This would be an
responsible for the sinking of the HMS
impressive record for anybody... but
Hampshire, which killed famous British
Artemis had one more surprise – she only
military leader Lord Kitchener.
had one leg!
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U-2 REAL SPIES
This was one of America’s secret weapons during the Cold
War. It’s a stealth spy-plane that photographed sensitive
Soviet military sites.
The existence of the aircraft was secret until the Soviets shot
one down in 1960. The USA tried to deny it, but the pilot, REAL SPIES
Francis Gary Powers, survived and was revealed, forcing
America to admit they had a spy plane. Oops!
Name:
THE ROSENbERGS
Two of the most infamous Soviet spies
were Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, a
married couple who passed secrets to
THE COLD WAR
the Soviet Union’s KGB. Among the
Name: many secrets shared was the design of
a weapon that was used to shoot down
OlEG GORDIEVSKY
the U-2 in 1960. The Rosenbergs were
finally caught and executed by electric
Gordievsky was a KGB colonel who
The Cold War between east and west perhaps best defines chair – making them the only two
became a highly placed spy for the
the world of spying as we know it. It all started after WWII, American civilians to be executed for
UK’s MI6 and provided invaluable
espionage during the entire Cold War.
in approximately 1947, when a difference of opinion about information during the Cold War. He
politics split the Western Bloc (America and its NATO allies) was suddenly interrogated by his KGB
and the Soviet Union (now called Russia) and its allies. These superiors who became suspicious
of his actions, although he was later
powerful countries became known as the ‘Superpowers’.
released and kept under surveillance.
Despite this he managed to send a
KEYWORDS
communication to MI6 and a plan was
It became known as the Cold War not because first human (Yuri Gagarin) into orbit. This
launched to get him out of Russia. He
of the chilly winters, but because there was no rush to exploit outer space led to an incredible SUPERPOWERS: The world was split
now lives in London, and has written
into two superpowers – the United
actual fighting between the two sides. This was development in the world of espionage: several books about spying!
States and the Soviet Union. The USA
partly because both sides had a massive arsenal spy satellites armed with cameras able to
included NATO (North Atlantic Treaty
of nuclear weapons that would obliterate the photograph any spot on the planet!
Organization), made up of (amongst
enemy... and probably end all life on Earth. This
The Cold War ended in 1991, after the collapse others) UK, France, Germany, Spain, and
became known as MAD, mostly because it was.
of the Soviet Union. This left the United States Italy. The Soviet Union’s allies included
The Cold War fuelled the desire to get into as the only remaining superpower. Poland, Czechoslovakia and Hungary.
space – and the Soviet Union led the way by
sending both the first satellite (Sputnik 1) and MAD: ‘Mutually Assured Destruction’ is
what stopped either superpower launching
a nuclear war. The theory was that as soon
as one side launched an attack, the other
would almost immediately fight back with
everything they had. The result would be
the complete annihilation of both sides.
CONTROL: The general term given to the
head spy who recruits and controls other
spies, moles or informants (otherwise
known as assets). They give instructions
and gather the information so that
their asset doesn’t communicate with
anybody else.
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