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US intelligence organizations openly state that a common way for them to operate in a country is to give their agents cover "jobs" at the state department. When
by sophacles 5y ago
US intelligence organizations openly state that a common way for them to operate in a country is to give their agents cover "jobs" at the state department. When state department employees or "employees" work at an embassy they are diplomats. Apparently this is common in the intelligence world.
Whether these particular people were spies, it seems like proper counter-intelligence to track all diplomats pretty closely because at least some of them are going to be intelligence operatives.
- lostcolony 5y agoTracking movement vs intercepting communication is a very different thing. In general, any attempt to spy on an ally is going to get a lot of egg on your face if it comes out, and if it's using tools your ally helped finance and/etc, you can bet it's going to get complicated. In this instance, Israel needs the US, Pegasus was Israel's technical gorilla in the spy world, and it got used on the US by someone they sold it to. This level of fallout given that is not unexpected; Israel cares more about maintaining ties with the US than they do about a given tool, company, or to enable Ugandan spying operations.
- jopsen 5y ago> it seems like proper counter-intelligence to track all diplomats pretty closely because at least some of them are going to be intelligence operatives. Curious, do you happen to know what such spies do? I'm wondering if it's just a reporting the news, talking to people and collecting information that can be legally obtained.
- nyolfen 5y agothey are often actual cia agents, which means collecting humint and building sources and networks. eg https://cryptocomb.org https://cryptocomb.org