How to be an International Spy: Your Training Manual, Should You Choose to Accept it

81 Pages·2015·10.79 MB·English

by  Lonely Planet Kids

CONTENTS
SPIES OUT IN
Stealth
THE
LIKE Aircraft
FIELD STaHtelElites
US
INTERNET
Make Your
Getting
Types of
WHICH Own
Ready for Mind-
Secrets
SIDE ARE Gadgets
Field Bending
Types of
YOU ON? Work Encryption
Spies Spies
Prime
in History Tracking
Spying in
Numbers
The Great
the USA The Human
DTiHgiEta lSPY
War World ANIMAL
ADnOdU thBeLE Trail
FCoHotAprLinLtsENGE!
War II The
OIDthEeNrs.T..ITY FSiPngIeErpSrints
Cyber
Cold War GLOSSARY
Surveillance
Spying in AWESOME Attack!
Code Names SThhaed Uownuinsugal
the UK GADGETS
Suspects ITNhrDeatEs X
CODE
Build Your Spotting a
Spying in Little Spies
OBwRnE HAQKINGTI Saiele You! Malware
Russia
SSpecyuinrigty in RSteocpognizing Sabotage
Common
People
CMheiansaures Bugging Mobile
Codes
Transform!
SNpoynien gS hinall Me! Malware Up
Steganography
IPIsnarvsaisesli bSlpe yIinnkg CKleoetphiinngg Close and
in France Personal Big
SO YOUI nW thiAs bNooTk you will
discover what it takes to be a
TO BE TO A SPY?
spy.
Well it’s goinLge atorn the art of
SECRET CODES
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you have it inre ymoeum, ber and each step
then get readwy iflol relevate you from the
some seriousr atrnakin oinf g. through to
RECRUIT
a full-blown .
SECRET AGENT
To be a successful spy, you must
RIGHT NOW YOU
first know what it is a spy
ARE RANKED AS A
actually does. Let’s see what the
RECRUIT
dictionary says:
AND only the best GET
PROMOTED. Good luck!
TYPES OF SECRETS
Can you keep a secret? If you can’t then
TYPES OF SPIES
you’re going to have real trouble – it’s
MILITARY
one of the most important aspects of MOLES
the job! The secrets ySoEu CmRigEhtTS
be dealing with fall into three Moles are hidden deep within governments
Knowing how many DOUBLE AGENTS
or organizations. As part of their job they will
basic areas:
troops the enemy
have access to secret files, although they won’t
INDUSTRIAL ShaEs,C wRheEre TthSey are These sneaky spies often pretend to spy for
usually steal these unless instructed to do so.
located and how well one country, when in fact they are spying for
Imagine a technology tchoemy paaren ya rlmeaerdn iinsg vital another. For example, an American agent
the secrets of a compettoit oarn ym coonuthnstry, spying
before they announce eas npeewci aplhlyo nine t–imes of in Russia decides to pass false information back
POLITICAL
then immediately launwchairn. gK tnhoewir ionwg nthe to America while actually passing on secret
version based on this ssSttorEelenCng ttRhe coEhfn TaonlSo egnye.my information to the Russians. The real skill of
Or a pharmaceutical comFmreoapmnasn b yyl oarceukl ecmaasnaiinligng a double agent is creating and distributing
a new drug before theifpri noridlvi twaicle,i aawnkhs poo sipnetsn tor disinformation – information that sounds real
many years developinglaa buiton. ucTth ht hissue rkirpi nrpidrsievate lives enough but is actually a lie.
of industrial and corporate espionage
athttraocukgsh a gtoainst them.
really does happen!
Bdiustc iotv’se rniontg j usesntsitive
ginofvoerrmnmateionnts who try to
daibsocuotv ae rc souucnhtry’s
iencfoonrmomatyio,n; military
SPIES IN HISTORY
You might have seen the glamour
and adventure of spies
through characters like James Bond
and think that spycraft is a
modern invention – but that’s not the
case. The art of spying is
an ancient and respected one,
occurring around the world and
across many cultures. Spying has
been used throughout history
ANCIENT EGSPYIPETS IN TTHheE ART The FrumenAta SriPi Y OF WORDS
so that armies and governments
OF WAR
BIBLE
In ancient Rome, you
The ecaorluieldst greacionr dthede euxpapmeprl eh aonf d. There are rumours that playwright
spying comes from ancient EgyptMeanwhile, in couldn’t even Wtruilslti athme Shakespeare was a spy
The crafty Hittites
around 1274 BC . During the war ancient wheat collectofrosr – the
weren’t the only
between Pharaoh Ramesses and China, Roman equivaElenngtl aonf dt.h Tehe finger has also been
historical figures doing
a group called the Hittites, spies military tax man. Whilpeo Rinotmede at the man who influenced
some shady spying,
were sent into the Egyptian camp,general Sun didn’t have anS ohragkaensipzeeadre – Christopher
The Old Testament is
posing as deserting soldiers. TheyTzu spying networMk, atrhleowe.
littered with examples
convinced the Egyptians that the spoke of how wheat collectors, known
of espionage. One
useful as the FrumenWtarhiii,le at university, Marlowe had
THE GREAT WAR REAL SPIES
Spying rose to a peak during World War
I (1914–1918)
and it became a particularly deadly game
During the warP, aersapniooniaa gpeeaked when two
to play.
Name:
techniques beccaamtse aenvde ra m doorge were spotted
When 11 German spies were caught in
daring and pararnepoeiaa treidplpyl ecdrossing British MARGARETHA GEERTRUIDA
Britain, they
through the pubtrleicn.c Ahensy, tlheiandging officers to ZELLE MACLEOD
were sentenced to death at the hands of
and everythings wusapse ucst etdh atto the animals had
Also known as:
MATA HARI
the firing
convey secret mbeeesnsa pgleasn –ted by the enemy to
Margaretha Geertruida Zelle
squad at the Tower of London.
loaves of breadr,e tlhaey wmheisrslaingges!
MacLeod – better known as Mata
arms of a windmill and even
The war was the start of spy Hari – was a Dutch exotic dancer
steam locomotives, which spat
tradecraft as we know it now; who lived in Paris. She wooed Allied
out Morse code messages (see
the very skills you are about to generals into revealing wartime
page 56 for more on Morse).
learn in order to complete your secrets, which she then passed on to
training. the Germans. When she was finally
caught and arrested, she had to face
the firing squad for her crimes.
WORLD WAR 11 During the war, the importance
of keeping secrets was taught
When war broke out again in 1939,
across the Allied countries,
intelligence agencies were ready.
using slogans and posters like
This was a time of great
these:
technological innovations for
One of the ingenious ways of sending
espionage – the most notable being
secret communications during World
Germany’s Enigma Machine (see
War II was by using special agents
pcaalgleed 5C5o)d.e Talkers. They used obscure
languages to pass on messages, and the
more successful teams were America’s
Native Americans. As only a small amount
of people could speak languages such
as Navajo, they could confidently add a
further code on top of that and no-one
REAL
Name:
would be any the wiser. Hitler knew the
SPIES
Americans had used CFordeed Terailckke Jrso uinb ethrte
First World War, so heD sueqnut epsenoeple to try to
learn the obscure languAalgseo, bkunt oitw pnro avse:d The
too difficult!
Black Panther
Duquesne was South
African by birth
U-2
This was one of America’s
secret weapons during the Cold
REAL SPIES
War. It’s a stealth spy-plane
that photographed sensitive
Soviet military sites.
The existence of the aircraft
THE COLD WAR
was secret until the Soviets shot Name:
one down in 1960. The USA OLEG GORDIEVSKY
The Cold War between east and west
tried to deny it, but the pilot,
perhaps best defines
Gordievsky was a KGB colonel who
Francis Gary Powers, survived
the world of spying as we know it. It all became a highly placed spy for the
and was revealed, forcing
Istt abretceadm aef ktenro wWAnW maseI trIhi,cfeia rC sttoo h ladud mWmaiantr t (nhYoeyut rbhieacda uase UK’s MI6 and provided invaluable
oinf tahpep crhoilxlyim waintsetpelyyrs p,1 lb9aGun4tae 7bg. ,eaO cwrioanhpu)sse i!enn tt hoae odrerib fwifte.a rsTe nhnoicse information during the Cold War. He
aocft uoapl ifnigiohnti nagb boeutwt eenru tshhe ttow eox spildoeits .o Tutheirs was was suddenly interrogated by his KGB
partly because both sidsepsa chea dle ad mtoa sasni vinec arresdeinbalel superiors who became suspicious
politics split the Western Bloc (America
of nuclear weapons thadte wveoluolpdm oebnlitt ienr atthee t hweorld of his actions, although he was later
and its NATO allies)
enemy... and probably oefn eds palilo lniafeg eo:n Earth. released and kept under surveillance.
and the Soviet Union (now called Russia)
This spy satellites armed with Despite this he managed to send a
and its allies. These
became known as MAcDa,m meorasstl yab bleec taouse it was. communication to MI6 and a plan was
powerful countries pbheoctaomgreap khn aonwy nsp aost othne launched to get him out of Russia. He
The Cold War fuelled the desire to get into
‘Superpowers’. the planet! now lives in London, and has written
space – and the Soviet Union led the way by
several books about spying!
INTELLIGENCE TYPES
YOUR
TRAINING THUhMe IwNoTr :l dH oufm inatne lIlnigteelnlicgee gnacteh,ering
hgaasth cearteedg obryi easn. Aagse annt amgaeknitn ygou are
Once you turn the next
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page you will have
The fast-paced world of information through trust – often
NOW, AGENT!
committed to begin your
international spying is one risking their own lives.
TtfrilalHeindiEngR aEs a IsSpy .NO
wToit hb eag winh wolieth a lypohua bneete dso tuop p oicfk SIGINT : Signal Intelligence,
GOING BACK. gathered by snooping in on regular
sae scirdeet taog ewnocrikes f,o arn. dT hkantowing
communications between people.
yuosuuar lClyI Ade fpreonmd sy oonu rw MhiScSh can
A technique known as COMINT is
bcoe uan mtrya tyteoru o lfi vlief ein a n–d b duet aththe!
used for phone calls, whereas ELINT
Lchuocikciely i,s tyhoeu nras.m Oens coef ythoeu have
is used for electronic, satellite and
ipnitcekrenda taio snidale ,i nthteelnli gyeonuc weill
radio communications.
sbeer vabiclees to form Dyoiudr yoowun spy
aargee nncoyt swehcricehts ,w sioll ywoour cka fno rwrite
Did you know?
dthoewmn. tLheeti’rs ntaamkee as wloiothko autt some
know? India’s
hoaf vthineg b tiog guesset ain ctoeldleig..e. nacltehough
Intelligence
Costa Rica is one of the
yagoeun wciiells hina vthe et ow hoarvlde. aC ghoooodse
Bureau (often
few countries in the world
mwiesmeloyr,y R!ecruit. We don’t want
simply TEST
not to have any military
you ending up being a double
called the IB) is
ofor recvees?n Ta htrei pVlea tasicugapennp toC!sietydly the Okay, Recruit, let’s see if
is another. Although no
oldest you’ve been paying
army doesn’t mean they
attention. What are

EaLbIbNrTeviations for? Use your spy
skills now to
try and decipher them!