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The Big Breach; From Top Secret to Maximum SecurityCompliments of http://www.192.comSpencer with descriptions of some of her range of goods. They were soonswapping telephone numbers, promising to meet up.The following morning we assembled at Boro as usual at 10 a.m., some ofus nursing hangovers. The chatter was all about the previous evening.The former army officer didn't impress Hare. `He was talking bullshit.No way was he in the green slime.' Markham too spoke sceptically aboutthe ignorance that the alleged wine merchant had displayed. But glowingwith pride, Spencer related his conversation with the blonde and beamedwhen he revealed his success in snagging a dinner date with her.A few minutes after ten, Ball shuffled to the front of the class andwished us good morning. He didn't look as cheerful as normal and theclassroom fell silent. Ì hope you had a good time last night,' Ballsaid, shifting awkwardly, as if he had something to hide. Spencerlooked smug. `But I have an apology to make,' he paused for a moment.`The guests at the party last night were not really friends of my wife,but were MI5 officers. The purpose of the exercise was to ensure thatyou had all learnt your lessons about cover.' There was a stony silenceas it sunk in that we had been so easily duped. It was exhilarating tocon unsuspecting members of the public in PERFECT STRANGER, but wedidn't like having the tables turned.Hare was most annoyed at being fooled. Ìn my experience from thearmy,' he spoke out indignantly ìf you con students they quickly losefaith in the DS.'Only Forton found something to lighten the mood. With a chuckle, hegleefully pointed to Spencer. `Feeling alright, Alex?' he askedmockingly. `Still going on that date?' Poor Spencer was staring at thefloor, ashen-faced.Thereafter, whenever friends or relatives asked us about work, it waseasy to fend off their curiosity. At first it was exhilarating to `liein the interests of national security', but it brought changes in myrelationships with friends. Carl Jung's statement that the `maintenanceof secrets acts like a psychic poison, which alienates their possessorfrom the community' rang true.The bread and butter of the work of an intelligence officer istargeting, cultivating, recruiting, then running informers who areprepared to give or sell secrets about their country to MI6. During thefirst weeks of the IONEC we practised these skills in a series of smallexercises. Experienced officers would come down from Century House torole-play the agent, pretending to be Brazilian Generals, Russianscientists, Iranian revolutionaries, or whatever the exercise required.We would play the case officer and practise the art of gettingalongside them, cultivating them, recruiting them and extractingintelligence. We then wrote up a contact report recording thecircumstances of the meeting and issued a mock CX report containing theintelligence. Afterwards the role-player debriefed us and Ball and Longgraded us on how well we had performed. Some of the exercises were donein public, so to a casual eavesdropper the conversations must haveappeared odd, particularly as the more colourful role-players wouldaffect the accents and dress of their role.page- 39 - To purchase the original limited edition hardback version of this bookplease call 08000 192 192 or go to http://www.192.com
The Big Breach; From Top Secret to Maximum SecurityCompliments of http://www.192.comOne such was PERFECT PASSENGER, which was intended to take the lessonslearnt in PERFECT STRANGER a step further and test our ability tocultivate a target. Often MI6 use the confines of public transport -especially aeroplanes - to cultivate a target, because he or she cannotescape. In this exercise we were told that MI6 had intelligence that aSouth African diplomat, who was vulnerable because of financialproblems, was returning from Portsmouth to London one Friday evening bytrain. Our assignment was to take the same train, find him amongst theother passengers, engage him in conversation and cultivate him so thathe would agree to have a drink on arrival at Waterloo station. Ballshowed us a surveillance shot of our target, but our only otherinformation was that he had radical pro-apartheid views and that healways carried The Economist, which would help us identify him in thecrowded train.I was lucky and found my target alone in a compartment. The `SouthAfrican diplomat' was easy-going and affable, and I arranged a followupdrink at Waterloo without problem. For Barking the exercise was lessstraightforward. He found his target without much difficulty andengaged him in conversation. Talk soon turned to apartheid politicswhen Barking, posing as a politics student, `discovered' that the roleplayerwas a South African diplomat. Barking decided that the best wayto persuade the target to come for a drink was to appear amenable andpolitically like-minded so he pretended to be a racist apartheidapologist. Soon the two were enthusiastically discussing the merits ofracially segregated education, the unacceptability of mixed marriagesand the impossibility of allowing non-whites to vote. Concentrating onthe assignment and enjoying the sympathetic response his extremistviews were eliciting from the play-acting South African, Barking paidlittle attention when two other men sporting beards and tweed jacketsentered the compartment, and didn't notice that his conversationagitated them. Eventually the two men, left-wing politics lecturers atPortsmouth Polytechnic, could no longer stomach Barking's racistbluster and they furiously joined in the argument. Unfortunately,Barking, mindful of the `party' a few weeks earlier, presumed that theywere MI5 role-players sent to see how he would handle the situation andgrade his performance. He refused to back down and the exercisedegenerated from a quiet attempt to gain the supposed diplomat'sconfidence into a four-way shouting match that ended only when thetrain arrived at Waterloo.We had a busy schedule down at the Fort the following fortnightlearning the `tradecraft' of spying. Tradecraft is the term used todescribe the practical skills that enable a spy to meet or communicatewith an agent without arousing the suspicion of the counterintelligenceopposition. It covers such skills as surveillance,antisurveillance, counter-surveillance, brush contacts and loading andclearing dead letter boxes. All require guile, cunning, a degree ofacting ability, but most of all, careful planning and preparation.An intelligence officer cannot go to a clandestine meeting with aninformer without first ensuring that he is not being followed bycounter-surveillance; but he must not make it obvious that he islooking out for watchers. Nervous glances over the shoulder or frequentstops to tie shoelaces would clearly signal to the surveillance thatthe target was up to mischief. The skill in anti-surveillance istherefore to appear an innocent diplomat, yet still identify anypage- 40 - To purchase the original limited edition hardback version of this bookplease call 08000 192 192 or go to http://www.192.com
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