1 Federal ’naya Sluzhba Bezopasnosti.
2 CIA in-house pseudonyms are invariably three-part names: first name, middle initial, and last name. The last name is always spelled entirely in capitalletters.
3 Personal Meeting Plan.
4 Counterintelligence.
5 Doshi’.
6 Visual Recognition Signal, which indicates that it is safe to proceed. If the agent believes conditions are unsafe, he/she will display a prearranged Danger Signal to warn off the case officer.
7 Sensitive Compartmented Information.
8 It is illegal to publish the real names of active clandestine service officers. was recalled to active duty shortly after 9/11.
9 The debacle occurred after THREADNEEDLE, to save money, ordered that all messages sent to CIA’s Iranian agents emanate from the same accommodation address in Germany. He fired twelve Iranian calligraphers, which left only one individual to address all the envelopes—which, incredibly, were written in green ink. Iranian counterintelligence didn’t take long to pick up on the fact that forty-three people in Iran were receiving mail from the same address in Germany, and that all the envelopes, which were written in distinctive green ink, had identical handwriting.
10 Paramilitary.
11 Provisional Operational Authority.
12 DST is the acronym for Direction de la Securite de la Territoire, France's internal security agency, which conducts counterintelligence operations against foreign espionage activities.
13 Yevgeniy Primakov, an academician, was nominated by Boris Yeltsin to be head of Russia’s foreign intelligence service, the SVR, on December 26, 1991. In July 1993, while his organization was running Aldrich Ames and more than a dozen other American moles, Primakov visited Washington, where he held a series of highly publicized meetings with incoming CIA director James Woolsey and other American intelligence community, congressional, and State Department officials.
14 The Oracles were a group of women who initially worked for James Jesus Angleton’s counterintelligence operation, and stayed on in CI until they were finally forced out by Nick Becker when he was CIA’s deputy director.
15 CIA’s Counterterrorism Center.
16 CIA jargon for brief encounter.
17 Foreign Service Nationals (FSNs in State Department terminology), often outnumber U.S. citizens at American embassies two to one. Some FSNs invariably report to the local intelligence service.
18 This particular technique is still being used by case officers operating in denied areas.
19 Forward-Looking Infra-Red.
20 The FBI’s Washington field office, out of which the CI (Counterintelligence) Division, operates.
21 Untraceable.
22 A red tab indicates material classified as “Secret.”
23 Declared persona non grata.
24 An embassy’s LEGal ATIach©. Most often an FBI special agent.
25 Germany’s intelligence service, formally known as the Bundesnacrichtendienst.
26 MI6 is Britain’s secret intelligence service, also known as SIS, whose operatives often work under FCD-Foreign and Commonwealth Officecover.
27 Assistant Regional Security Officers are Diplomatic Security Service special agents assigned to embassies.
28 The Center for Intelligence Exploitation is a subsection of the army’s Second Division, known as Division du Renseignement, or Intelligence Division, which reports to the national defense staff.
29 French for “fixer.”
30 Intelligence Community.
31 Line X was KGB’s science and technology collection branch.
32 Among the most valuable secrets stolen by Moscow were the computer programs that governed the grinding of submarine propellers. The props of America’s nuclear submarines leave almost no signature in the water, a result of a seven-axis grinding and polishing process that helps mask the sub’s blade tonals and cavitation as the propeller changes speed. Vetrov let the Americans know that their grinding technology had been compromised, and that in the future, Soviet nuclear submarines would be able to operate as quietly- or even more quietly-than their U.S. counterparts.
33 The headquarters of the KGB’s foreign intelligence operations, located on Moscow’s outermost Ring Road.
34 The Second Department of the KGB’s Second Chief Directorate was responsible for monitoring British intelligence activity in the Soviet Union. The Second Chief Directorate’s First Department targeted America’s USSR intelligence operations.
35 The headquarters for KGB’s First Chief Directorate, which handled Soviet-era foreign intelligence.
36 “Bottle” was the KGB term for a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF), or bug-proof room.
37 Agence France Presse, France’s leading wire service.
38 Microdot technology is the art of clandestine communication by reducing information-photographs of documents, or weapons, or diagrams-to microscopic proportions in order to conceal the information by placing it in an otherwise innocent message as a period, or the dot of an i.
39 The French Foreign Ministry is located on the Quai d’Orsay, directly oppositethe Invalides metro station.
40 In bureaucratic jumble-SPeak shorthand: a DAS is a Deputy Assistant Secretary; and EUR is the Department of State’s Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs.
41 All U.S. government agency statements and policies, from a presidential speech like the State of the Union, to the words spoken by departmental spokesmen or issued in press releases, must go through a vetting process in which every one of the interested parties has a chance to amend the language, or insert something. The one single paragraph in a presidential statement about U.S.-Russian relations that dealt with U.S.-Russia trade, for example, would have to be run past the relevant bureaus at State, CIA’s Russia Division, the office of the U.S. trade representative, and the Departments of Commerce and Treasury, at the very least.
42 Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information.
43 Burrowing takes place when a political appointee does not resign at the end of.the administration, but finds a permanent slot at an agency and “burrows” in that slot until he/she becomes a permanent civil service employee. Sometimes, individuals who burrow leave their civil service slots to take another political appointment when their party regains the White House.
44 The J. Edgar Hoover Building, FBI headquarters.
45 SIGnals INTelligence.
46 Law Enforcement.
47 FBI counterintelligence personnel and CIA case officers are often provided with pocket-size, spiral-bound books of portraits of their quarry so they can memorize the opposition agents’ features, or quickly identify them during an operation. The pictures are assembled from surveillance photos as well as passport, visa, and driver's license photographs.
48 Denied Area Operations.
49 Be On the Look Out notice issued by law enforcement agencies.
50 By 1944, just before D-Day, ass had more than two thousand personnel in London, occupying nine buildings. Seventy Grosvenor Street, convenient both to Claridge’s Hotel and a favorite ass pub, the Coach and Horses, was the organization’s European headquarters.
51 The J. Edgar Hoover Building.
52 Department of Justice.
53 Dumb-ass; dickhead.
1 A CIA base is a small intelligence operation that functions as a satellite to the main intelligence gathering unit, the CIA station, which is normally quartered in an embassy or in some cases a consulate general. The CIA station in Germany, for example, is physically located within the U.S. Embassy in Berlin. There were, at one point, CIA bases in Frankfurt, DUsseldorf, Hamburg, and Munich. All were closed between 1995-2000.
2 Thisofficer, who retired on 2001, spent his entire career working under cover. He was listed as a senior Foreign Service officer (rank of Career Minister) of the Department of State when he left government service. Later that same day at a private ceremony on Langley’s seventh floor, was awarded CIA’s Intelligence Star for Valor, the Agency’s thirdhighest award, as well as the gold medallion signifying more than 30 years of service. Since s retirement was covert, both awards currently sit in a safe at CIA headquarters.