Robert Baer's excellent book See No Evil gives a fairly detailed account of what it's like to be an intelligence officer (in his case for the CIA) - you are bas

Robert Baer's excellent book See No Evil gives a fairly detailed account of what it's like to be an intelligence officer (in his case for the CIA) - you are basically identifying people who have useful information and then persuading them to do that, by whatever means necessary: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/See_No_Evil_(Baer_book) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/See_No_Evil_(Baer_book)