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Spy Words, Terms and Codes
Here is a reference resource for all those spy codes and covert talk.
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- OBS – Croatia's intelligence
agency, the Obavestajna Bezbednostna Sluzba.
- OP – observation post.
- OFFENSIVE PENETRATION OPERATION –
infiltration of an agent into a target group or organization.
- OFFSITE – a covert FBI site or
facility situated away from a field office.
- OG – an acronym for original
gangmembers, now in their thirties and forties, who supply cocaine and
heroin to street gangs.
- ONE-TIME PAD – an unbreakable code
system that works by adding the numeric value of the plaintext with a
randomly-generated code string (the one-time pad). Also see FIBONACCI
SYSTEM.
- OPEN-SOURCE -
intelligence gained from public materials.
- OSA – official secrets act, usually
a law to enable governments to conceal their mistakes from their own
population.
- OSINT -: open
source intelligence; an all-source process which includes HUMINT, IMINT,
SIGINT, and MASINT which analysts must understand and integrate to produce
the best possible intelligence.
- OSS - Office
of Strategic Services; U.S.'s WWII intelligence, sabotage, and subversion
organization
- OUTRIDER – a wheel artist
responsible for ensuring that the target does not get outside the floating
box of surveillance vehicles. See also FLOATING BOX.
- OVERT TARGET – deliberately
attempts to draw attention and drain the resources of an intelligence agency
or security service. Occasionally a decoy.
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