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    A Guide for the Aspiring Spy (the Anonymous Spy Series)
    A Guide for the Aspiring Spy (the Anonymous Spy Series)
    A Guide for the Aspiring Spy (the Anonymous Spy Series)
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    A Guide for the Aspiring Spy (the Anonymous Spy Series)

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    A GUIDE FOR THE ASPIRING SPY
    A basic guide of CIA recruitment, training, and employment from the point of view of a Non-Official Cover case officer. Ideal for those interested in pursuing intelligence work or writers, actors, and other artists searching to realistically portray the spy trade in their craft.

    ABOUT THE ANONYMOUS SPY SERIES

    Forget what you see in movies. Don’t fall for over-the-top chase scenes and explosions. If you want to know what it’s really like to live and breathe the life of a CIA spy, then peek into the pages of The Anonymous Spy Series – a comprehensive resource of materials for anyone interested in the trade of spycraft.

    The series covers:
    - spy terms with definitions and sample sentences that demonstrate how the terms are really used in documents and in speech
    - a comprehensive resource of CIA recruitment and training
    - a detailed account of a spy’s day to day life
    - first-person insight into how a life of espionage affects a spy’s personal life
    - many more unexpected insights into the life of a spy.

    A perfect addition to any military intelligence library. The perfect Cold War companion to Allen W. Dulles’s The Craft of Intelligence.

    The books may be read in conjunction or enjoyed alone.

    Other books in The Anonymous Spy series...

    THE ESPIONAGE DICTIONARY
    A glossary of espionage terms as well examples of their usage. A useful tool for those interested in pursuing intelligence work or writers, actors, and other artists searching to realistically portray the spy trade in their craft.

    TRUE ACCOUNTS OF ESPIONAGE
    Accounts of the daily life of an Official Cover case offer and a Non-Official Cover case officer. Also contains thirteen first-person anecdotes from an overseas non-official cover case officer’s career.

    AUTHOR’S NOTE
    Nonfiction materials in The Anonymous Spy series have been submitted to the Central Intelligence Agency’s editorial review board for censoring. After five years of revisions and seventy pages of content rejected as “too factual and detailed as to how the CIA actually works” in the field, the remaining materials stand as a comprehensive guide to American spy craft without compromising the modus operandi of the CIA case officer in the field.

    We owe a great debt of gratitude to the companies and individuals who risk their reputations, fortunes, and lives to provide a selfless service to this country. This series is dedicated to those heroes on the CIA’s Wall of Honor who made the ultimate sacrifice so that the rest of us can live in the freedom we sometimes take for granted.

    ABOUT THE AUTHOR

    The Anonymous Spy joined the CIA as a very expendable GS-8 paramilitary case officer after having served as a US Army Intelligence Officer on loan to the Company to work on the infamous Phoenix Program in Vietnam. As a PM case officer, he served two tours in Vietnam, after which he was selected to become a deep-cover Non-Official Cover case officer, a position he held for nearly twenty years. Prior to that assignment, he served one tour at CIA headquarters as a desk “bureaucrat” operations officer planning his own first NOC tour overseas. Rising in the ranks to become a senior level GS-17, the Anonymous Spy has had a taste of almost every area and level of duty the CIA has to offer. Now retired, he enjoys hiking, fishing, and hunting and lives a somewhat reclusive life.

    LanguageEnglish
    Publisheralphadivision
    Release dateMay 10, 2012
    ISBN9781938268915
    A Guide for the Aspiring Spy (the Anonymous Spy Series)
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    Anonymous Spy

    The Anonymous Spy joined the CIA as a very expendable GS-8 paramilitary case officer after having served as a US Army Intelligence Officer on loan to the Company to work on the infamous Phoenix Program in Vietnam. As a PM case officer, he served two tours in Vietnam, after which he was selected to become a deep-cover Non-Official Cover case officer, a position he held for nearly twenty years. Prior to that assignment, he served one tour at CIA headquarters as a desk “bureaucrat” operations officer planning his own first NOC tour overseas. Rising in the ranks to become a senior level GS-17, the Anonymous Spy has had a taste of almost every area and level of duty the CIA has to offer. Now retired, he enjoys hiking, fishing, and hunting and lives a somewhat reclusive life.

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    A Guide for the Aspiring Spy (the Anonymous Spy Series) - Anonymous Spy

    Guide for the Aspiring Spy

    The Anonymous Spy Series

    smashwords edition

    Copyright © 2012

    by The Anonymous Spy

    ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. This book contains material protected under International and Federal Copyright Laws and Treaties. Any unauthorized reprint or use of this material is prohibited. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system without express written consent from the author/publisher.

    Author’s Note

    Nonfiction materials in The Anonymous Spy series have been submitted to the Central Intelligence Agency’s editorial review board for censoring. After five years of revisions and seventy pages of content rejected as too factual and detailed as to how the CIA actually works in the field, the remaining materials stand as a comprehensive guide to American spy craft without compromising the modus operandi of the CIA case officer in the field.

    Out of concern for the fate of the many US corporations as well as ordinary citizens in foreign countries who have wittingly and unwittingly assisted CIA case officers in their clandestine work, no true names or locations are used in this series.

    We owe a great debt of gratitude to the companies and individuals who risk their reputations, fortunes, and lives to provide a selfless service to this country. This series is dedicated to those heroes on the CIA’s Wall of Honor who made the ultimate sacrifice so that the rest of us can live in the freedom we sometimes take for granted.

    Introduction

    If you are expecting a spy thriller, you will be disappointed. This is the real world. This book is intended for men and women who desire a career in the National Clandestine Service or Operations Directorate of the Central Intelligence Agency—the Clandestine Service—as a case officer.

    The case officer is the foot soldier in the never-ending war of espionage—the world’s second oldest profession. It is the men and women of the Clandestine Service garbed in the cloak of secrecy who are at the forefront of the worldwide war on terror.

    For the sake of simplicity, I’ve often deferred to male gender identification in the use of definitions and examples, even though case officers and agents alike can easily be female.

    Please remember: the Central Intelligence Agency is an organization composed of people. Men and women just like you, your children, your friends, and your neighbors. The composition of the CIA is more of a cross section of mainstream America today than at any other time in its history. These citizens serve with pride in the history of this organization and its contributions to America’s security while acknowledging and understanding its past shortcomings, weaknesses, and failures. The CIA perhaps reflects the combined totality of the humanity of which it is composed.

    Just as we are not perfect, neither is the CIA, precisely because it is composed of people with all our imperfections and failures. We make very human mistakes that may carry forward in our work and adversely affect public perception of the CIA.

    This book is meant to honor those men and women who have served within the CIA, especially the foot soldier in the quiet war of espionage that was the front line of the Cold War period—the case officer. Those who serve incognito without public recognition of their services comprise the very heart of the CIA’s Clandestine Service.

    You Want to Join the CIA?

    This isn’t a far-fetched idea. The Company employs approximately 20,000 personnel from all walks of American life and every aspect of academic or professional endeavor. Because of the very nature of its charter, the CIA must be prepared with a reserve of talents and disciplines to meet every contingency. In addition to professional CIA personnel, the agency has a nearly countless reserve of assets, agents, contacts, independent contractors, and volunteers at its disposal worldwide.

    The majority of CIA professionals work at the Company’s headquarters in Langley, Virginia. They perform a multitude of tasks from security guards, secretaries, desk officers, analysts, administrators, technical support, linguists, translators, computer and IT engineers, computer programmers, accountants, lawyers, doctors, nurses, scientists, psychologists, mechanical and electrical engineers, and more. Most work in one of the four directorates of the CIA.

    These directorates include the National Clandestine Service or Directorate of Operations (DO), which is what it was called when I left service. It has responsibility for collection of intelligence. The Directorate of Science and Technology (DST) collects intelligence from satellite and other high-tech means. The Directorate of Intelligence (DI) takes and collates the intelligence collected from the DO and DST and prepares intelligence estimates and other products for government policy makers. And the Directorate of Support (DS) is the personnel and management arm of the CIA.

    In addition to those working at CIA headquarters, other officers work at domestic CIA offices. These offices, called Stations, are strategically located in major metropolitan areas. They are staffed by case officers who deal mainly with helpful US assets who assist the Company to target foreign nationals inside the US for recruitment as agents to spy or inform on their governments, organizations, or companies when they return to their native countries. Contrary to subculture opinion, the CIA does not spy on US citizens from these domestic Stations.

    The bread and butter of the Company’s components are the CIA Stations located within the many US government facilities in other countries. These Stations provide the very foundation for CIA espionage operations within a country.

    Many people who seek employment with the CIA hope to be selected for an Operations Officer position, specifically the elite case officer. The case officer is a professional staff officer for the National Clandestine Service of the CIA. It is the case officer who is intimately involved in the conduct of espionage against foreign countries by spotting, assessing, vetting, developing, recruiting, and handling covert agents, or as laypersons like to call them spies. Approximately half of the CIA’s available case officers are deployed overseas or at domestic Stations at any given time. The other half are either working at CIA headquarters or one of the domestic CIA offices or are in training pending deployment overseas.

    The case officer is the CIA’s point man or woman in the worldwide war on terror. If you are looking for a forty-hour workweek, this is not the job for you. If you are looking for job that doesn’t follow you home, you better not apply for this one. If you expect immediate gratification for a job well done, go somewhere else. If, however, you are interested in knowing what is not supposed to be known and are willing to endure days or weeks of stark boredom interspersed with moments of terror merely to learn a few tidbits of information, then read on.

    Types of Officers

    There are two categories of cover used by the agency for field operatives. One is Official Cover (OC) and the other Non-Official Cover (NOC). Official Cover simply means placing a case officer into a position overseas under the guise of an officer for another agency of the US government. The OC case officer, sometimes called the inside officer, may be given light cover duties to perform for two or three hours per day to establish his cover credentials. Often, however, the officer will devote his full time to his agency duties. Non-Official Cover means placing the case officer under deep cover as the employee of a real commercial company or Non-Governmental Organization (NGO). He is sometimes referred to as an outside officer.

    Because the careers of OC officers and NOC officers are so different, they do not compete against each other for promotions. OC officers only compete against other OC officers of the same grade for promotions and the same applies for NOC officers. Other aspects of the careers of OC and NOC officers is so different that even that division of

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