Monday, January 2, 2023

Tradecraft - NOT!!!

 

Found on MeWe (sorry, can't provide a direct link - their software doesn't allow it).  Clickit to biggit.



Given the several former Intel weenies whom I know read this blog regularly, I expect feedback from them as to whether such tactics were, indeed, used in the Cold War.  It would explain a few things!




Peter


10 comments:

DaddyBear said...

If you’re single and willing to answer a lot of questions, probably not fatal. Not that the aftermath won’t be painful, but you will survive. “Why didn’t you call us sooner?” Will be the easiest one to answer.

On the plus side, you’ll have a story that will reign supreme for a long time.

If you’re a Marine guard at the Moscow embassy, this is your clue that you shouldn’t be drinking out on the Novi Arbat anyway.

If you’re married, you’re boned in more ways than one.

Old NFO said...

LOL, I'll defer to the 'experts'...

Stan_qaz said...

I spent a lot of time in foreign bars hoping she'd show up. Never did.

But yes, have your fun but say little, see the intel weenies in the morning and hope they decide to dangle you as bait.

Storm said...

Eh, outside the early part of the cold war, it's my understanding the KGB, et al. were with the program enough to avoid the "obvious foreign accent" bit with their marks unless it was known that said mark had a thing for a specific accent.

Hamsterman said...

You might get your clearance once you marry her and she becomes a US Citizen. At least that's been my experience.

LL said...

You run them or they run you.

It was ever thus.

Francis Turner said...

You should have included the picture that came with that text in your "Memes that made me laugh" for the week

Mauser said...

Booty-Judge was only a Mayor when he got a Chinese spy assigned to him. I can't imagine what they thought they'd get from that.

MrGarabaldi said...

Hey Peter;

We would think it, but not say it, LOL

Captain Tightpants said...

Funny timing, as a recent Special Forces unit OPSEC/Intel briefing included a slide which basically said "None of you are hot enough to attract someone who looks like this, so if they're talking to you it's a honeypot."