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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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- C4I - Command, Control,
Communications, Computers, and Intelligence (C4I)
- CALL-UP
– a police term meaning a situation where a SWAT team has deployed.
- CAMP X - Canada's secret domestic
training base.
- CANNON – a thief who steals back
the inducement offered by the spies to an informant, defector, etc.
- CARIBINIERI – Italy's federal
antiterrorist police.
- CARNIVORE - computer program designed
by the FBI to allow the FBI to collect electronic communications from a
specific user targeted in an investigation.
- CASE OFFICER – operations officer,
controller.
- CBI – India's security service.
- CENTER - KGB HQ in Moscow
- CHASE CAR – a security detail or
bodyguard vehicle that follows the subject.
- CHEATING – command of the target
from in front of the target during floating box surveillance. See
also COMMAND OF THE TARGET.
- CHENG PAO K'O – China's
intelligence agency.
- CHICKEN FEED – low grade
information fed through a double agent to one's adversary with the intention
of building the credibility of the double agent.
- CHOBETSU – One of Japan's security
services.
- CIA – a US intelligence agency.
- CNT – an acronym for crisis
negotiation team. CNTs are used by police in situations involving
hostage-takers or barricaded suspects. The name CNT is a misnomer – their
true role is not to negotiate, but rather to obtain intelligence to
facilitate an assault by the SWAT team, and to distract the suspect to
divert his attention from the coming assault.
- COBBLER - a
spy who creates false passports, visas, diplomas and other documents.
- COMINT – acronym for communications
intelligence.
- COMM – a small note or other
written communication from an underground organization or one of its
members. They are typically written on cigarette wrappers, chewing gum
wrappers, etc.
- COMMAND OF THE TARGET – active
visual observation of the subject of the surveillance operation. Used during
pedestrian and vehicle surveillance. See also CHEATING and FLOATING BOX.
- COMMANDO – a civilian, military, or
paramilitary combat group using irregular tactics. Commando can refer to an
individual, a cell, a squad, or the organization as a whole.
- COMMIT – a surveillance operative
performing the commit function is watching a location to determine the
direction that the target takes (or "commits" to).
- COMPROMISED – breached security
status.
- COMPUTER FORENSICS - Investigation
of a computer system believed to be involved in cybercrime. Also used in
espionage to retrieve intelligence from stolen laptops or pcs.
- CONG AN BO – Vietnam's security
service.
- CONSUMER – a person or an
organization on an intelligence agency's distribution list. Also see
PRODUCT.
- COOKED – a mixture of genuine and
fake material provided via a double agent to one's adversary.
- COORDINATION DE LA SECURITE DU TERRITOIRE
– Algeria's security service.
- COUNTERESPIONAGE – activities
designed to impede the efforts of hostile intelligence agencies engaged in
espionage against one's own nation, allies, and citizens.
- COUNTERINTELLIGENCE – activities
designed to impede or thwart the efforts of hostile intelligence agencies
attempting to penetrate or compromise one's own intelligence agency.
- COUSINS – slang for CIA.
- COVER – persona, profession,
purpose, activity, fictitious image maintained by an undercover operative.
- COVERT ACTION AGENT – a spy who
works to reorient an entire nation's politics in favor of his country.
- CS GAS – a form of tear gas, full
name ortho-chlorobenzalmalanonitrile, used by cops, SWAT teams, and the
military.
- CSE – Canada's signal intelligence
agency, Communications Security Establishment.
- CSIS – Canada's security service.
- CUT-OUT – a mechanism or person
used to allow agents to pass material or messages securely; also an agent
who functions as an intermediary between a spymaster and other subagents.
- COURIER – delivers documents,
money, etc.
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