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In espionage recruitment, they refer to ‘MICE’: Money, Ideology (East vs West, religion), Compromise (blackmail) and Ego. Ego includes appealing to someone’s d
by greggsy 4y ago
In espionage recruitment, they refer to ‘MICE’: Money, Ideology (East vs West, religion), Compromise (blackmail) and Ego.
Ego includes appealing to someone’s desires for sex, positions of power, or revenge - this case fits well end truly here.
- hag 4y agoI just listened to an episode of The Darknet Diaries with an ex-CIA (I think) agent and he was talking about MICE. I'm pretty sure he said the C was for Coercion, but that does include blackmail as you said.
- hammock 4y agoI could see blackmail falling under ego also
- corrral 4y agoThe inclusion of "ego" seems like kind of a cop-out, like, "it could be one of these three things, or... uh... literally anything else".
- dylan604 4y agoI've always thought it was pretty accurate and not cop-out at all. At least they didn't try to squeeze in "id"
- MockObject 4y agoSeriously. If ego includes sex, it ought to include money as well.
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- Fargoan 4y agoDarknet Diaries is such a good podcast. Especially the Student and Saudi Aramco episodes
- jacquesm 4y agoThey missed 'Ethics'. And no, that's not ideology.