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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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- TALEBAN – underground group in
Afghanistan.
- TALENT SPOTTER – same as ACCESS
AGENT.
- TARGET – the victim of
surveillance, the subject.
- TECHINT - technical
intelligence; analysis of fielded equipment for training, research, and the
development of new weapons and equipment for eventual intelligence use.
- TERMINATED -
murdered.
- THE TAKE -
information gathered by espionage.
- THERMAL IMAGER – a heat-sensitive
surveillance video camera and display.
- THREE Bs – Booze, broads, and
bucars. The three temptations of FBI agents.
- THROW PHONE – a cellular telephone
thrown to a barricaded suspect by the SWAT team.
- THROWAWAY
- an agent considered
expendable.
- TIMED DROP -
a dead drop that will be retrieved by a recipient after a set time
period.
- TRADECRAFT - The methods used in
clandestine operations such as espionage. The skill acquired through
experience in a trade; often used to discuss skill in espionage
- TRAFFIC ANALYSIS
- methods for gaining intelligence from the patterns and
volumes of messages of radio intercepts.
- TRIADS – Asian organized crime
gangs.
- TRIGGER – a surveillance operative
who is watching the target's vacant vehicle, home, garage, office,
restaurant etc. and who alerts the rest of the surveillance team when the
target is spotted.
- TUPAMAROS – an underground group in
Uruguay.
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