Influential Groups   

This program details the characteristic traits of people who are typical candidates for spying. Then, it delves into the four major triggers that cause them to actually do it. Finally, it gives an example from the most notorious spies in World History, foreign and domestic, demonstrating how the patterns of behavior can help us to identify them. 

 

This PowerPoint presentation reveals the depth and types of skills needed by CIA personnel to use clandestine operations to collect intelligence in difficult - to near-impossible - situations in foreign countries.  All this while under 24-hour surveillance by anti-espionage professionals.  It also reveals a variety of those secret (now unclassified) successes that were accomplished against all odds by the clever use of tradecraft, imagination and creativity.

This presentation goes into great detail on the steps that a CIA Case Officer employs in acquiring someone in a foreign country with access to valuable information unavailable in any other way, to spy for the USA. It reveals the meticulous planning and clever techniques used to communicate that intelligence safely and securely without compromising it, or jeopardizing both parties over long periods of time.