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But once again, that is internal and defensive humint, not external humint. The main point of the article, that spies don't discover anything useful about forei
by frandroid 13y ago
But once again, that is internal and defensive humint, not external humint. The main point of the article, that spies don't discover anything useful about foreign enemies, remains.
- antimagic 13y agouh, I think you missed my point. The reason that you get your background checked so thoroughly is because you're going to be a target of the bad guy's humint (so that he can use your access to cryptosystems for sigint), so the good guys vet you first to find the skeletons in your closet. This is most definately offensive humint.
- onetwofiveten 13y agoThat's an interesting point. If piece of information X is easy to verify, then so is piece of information Y where Y is some blackmail material on an individual who knows X. That does make sense.