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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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- SA – FBI special agent.
- SAFEHOUSE – a dwelling place or
hideout unknown to the adversary.
- SANITIZE -
to delete specific material or revise a report
or other document to prevent the identification of intelligence sources and
collection methods.
SAPO – Sweden's security service.
- SASHA KVAP – Russian mole inside
Hitler's bunker during the final months of World War II. Subsequently
poisoned by the KGB in 1955.
- SAVAK – one of Iraq's security
services.
SCIF – acronym for Secured Compartmentalized Information Facility
(in Fort Gillem, GA, USA) where Clipper is housed (rumored to have already
been penetrated by agents of China's intelligence agencies).
- SEMTEX – a military explosive
suitable for sabotage and terrorist operations.
- SECRET CLASSIFICATIONS –
Confidential, Secret, Top Secret, and (SCI) Special Compartmentalized
Information.
- SERE – an acronym for survival,
evasion, resistance, and escape.
- SERVICING – the act of removing
material from a dead drop.
- SET UP – to begin to conduct
surveillance on a target.
- SEVENTY-ONE YARDS – according to
FBI statistics, this is the distance at which a typical police sniper will
get you. Although the SR60 .308 sniper rifle used by most police departments
is designed for distances up to 600 yards, most police snipers do not fire
at suspects beyond 400 yards. (Of course, at any distance an execution
is still an execution.)
- SHOE -
False passport of VISA
- SHIN BETH – Israel's security
service (also called GSS).
- SHINING PATH – an underground group
in Peru.
- SMERSH – KGB assassination group.
Officially disbanded ;) The name derives from the Russian phrase "death
to spies".
- SIDE – Argentina's security
service.
- SIGINT – signals intelligence
(interception of electronic communications)
- SINN FEIN – the political arm
(party) of the IRA.
- SIS – one of Britain's intelligence
agencies, the secret intelligence service.
- SIT REP – situation report.
- SIX – slang for a police officer,
police cruiser, or a police patrol. Used as a warning in the criminal
community.
- SLEEPER AGENT – an inactive
deep-cover agent.
- SLUZBA BEZPIECZENSTWA – Poland's
security service, also called the SB.
- SOFT TARGET – an easy surveillance
target, untrained and not looking for surveillance.
- SOG – an acronym for Special
Operations Group, FBI agents who conduct surveillance. Incontrast, SSG is
composed of non-agents. See also SSG.
- SOS – dot dot dot dash dash dash
dot dot dot.
- SPECIAL BRANCH – the security
branch of the British police.
- SPLASHED – describes a bodyguard
whose client has been assassinated. Also see WET AFFAIR.
- SPOOK – a spy.
- SPY – any member of an intelligence
agency, security service, police agency, resistance movement, guerrilla
group, or other organization engaged in covert intelligence-gathering
activities.
- SRI – Romania's security service
(rumored to be made up of former members of Ceausescu's secret police).
- SSG – an acronym for Surveillance
Specialist Group, which is what the FBI calls a surveillance team. See also
INVESTIGATIVE SPECIALIST. See also SOG.
- SSS – Georgia's security service.
- STATION -
post where espionage is conducted
- StB – Czechoslovakia's security
service, the Statni Tajna Bezpecnost.
- STINGBALL – a flashbang grenade
used by SWAT teams to disperse crowds and disorient barricaded suspects.
Throws off rubber fragments when detonated. It is standard police procedure
to cover up the deaths of suspects inadvertently killed by stingballs.
- STREET AGENT – an FBI agent whose
work takes him to various locations. Also see BRICK AGENT.
- SVR – one of Russia's intelligence
agencies, the Slnzhba Vneshnei Razvedaki.
- SWALLOW -
a female agent employed to seduce people for intelligence purposes.
- SWARMING – overfilling a location
with surveillance operatives. Often used in psy ops as a means for
controlling the target's environment.
- SYNTHETIC HEMOGLOBIN – a component
used in carbon monoxoide detector alarms. The radiation weapons recently
developed and deployed by DARPA will set off these alarms.
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