Counter Intelligence and Tactics the Next Stage to Staying Safe The best way to avoid being shot is to avoid getting into a gunfight in the first place, practice prevention in other words. It doesn't always work, of course, but you can avoid certain situations if you think about it first, and then apply some tactics. The same philosophy applies to Counter Intelligence. The best way to stay off someone's radar screen is to not give anyone a reason to look in the first place. In today's threat environment you cannot be passive about gathering intelligence, you have to go look for it, and then analyze what you discover. You can't wait for information to reach you, you have to actively seek it out, and this may mean you have to insert yourself …show more content…
Camouflage is a defense or tactic that humans and other mammals, along with certain organisms use to disguise their appearance. They disguise themselves to blend in with their surroundings. Humans use various forms of camouflage to mask, or outright hide their location, identity, and movement. Mimicry or imitation is a form of camouflage and you can us it when infiltrating into a group or community to gather Intel. In other words, you want to look and act like those around you. Spies well versed in Counter Intelligence know how to mimic. They know how to dress like those around them without looking out of place. If you try to disguise yourself with wigs and makeup, for example, you may stand out more than, if you simply picked up a newspaper and sat down for a cup of coffee at an outdoor cafe. You don't need a wig if no one knows you, and if someone does know you and you want to try and hide your looks using wigs or makeup, most will see right through your attempts. If you want to disguise yourself so you can come back and not be noticed as having been there before, the simplest of things make a big difference. Wear glasses the first time or second time, use self-tanning lotion to change your skin tone if light skinned, or part your hair on the other side, wear a hat, scarf, or anything to break up your
Intro: It has been said many times that "You can't judge a book by its cover" and "Don't judge a man until you have walked a mile in his shoes". A person may appear one way on the outside but may be feeling the total opposite on the inside. They may be masking their true emotions with a false appearance. In "We Wear the Mask" it seems that Paul Laurence Dunbar is conveying this message to his audience. Looking at the picture of the girl holding the mask, seems similar to the emotions expressed throughout the poem.
...le knowing their identity, so that they do not have to face the judgments of others. "Man is least himself when he talks in his own person! Give him a mask and he'll tell you the truth!" (Velvet Goldmine).
The first widely recorded use of what could be said is camouflage came with the Ninjas of feudal Japan. Though few actual written records exist of these shadowy assassins, records of their stealth and knowledge in the art of staying hidden live on. Masters in the art of not remaining unseen, the Ninja would “use any type of clothing that would get them closer to the mission goal“(EnterTheNinja.com). This could include not only the standard black pajamas many a person associates with the shadowy assassi...
Regardless of the origins, regardless of the propriety? the existence of the masquerade as a part of popular urban culture in the eighteenth century cannot be denied. The masquerade was a much needed outlet for the people of this time who constantly had to keep their behavior within the strict confines of what was socially acceptable. By putting one mask on, the masqueraders were able to take a more fundamental mask off.
The DIA started in 1958. The organizational structure of the DoD and U.S. foreign intelligence came to a new shape with the establishment of DIA. It was Robert McNamara, then Secretary of Defense, who came up with the concept of DIA in 1961. DIA gathers human source intelligence, analyzes technical intelligence, distributes intelligence/reports to the intelligence agencies, provides advice and support to the Joint Chiefs of Staff with foreign military intelligence, and provides military intelligence to combatant commands as its operational functions. A DIA director is supposed to be a three-star military general and DIA is believed to have employed at least 7,500 staff worldwide today. The DIA is a defense intelligence agency that prevents strategic surprises and delivers a decision advantage to warfighters, defense planners, and to policymakers. This paper will try to evaluate DIA’s role in US national security in present condition of massive budget deficits and increased congressional oversight, plus the intelligence capabilities of the Regional Combatant Commanders and the individual services like CIA and NSA.
Espionage has always been a subject that has captured the thoughts and imaginations of many people. The idea of the glamorous life of espionage agents and spies with grand parties, high tech gadgets, and world destroying villains have led to the belief that spies live a life of adventure and almost science fiction. Real agents live far from that life in reality. Many live in constant fear of imprisonment or execution. The facts and fiction of espionage have become distorted overtime.
For example in Cliges, Cliges conceals his identity by changing the color of his armor each day he goes out to fight. He does this because he does not want the knights to recognize him on the battlefield. Cliges is a good fighter, being very strong and skilled in combat, but he wants to prove himself to the knights he is fighting rather than have them be intimidated by his reputation. In a way, he proved his identity by concealing it; reputation is a trait that must be hidden to sustain the knightly order of
The National Security Act of 1947 created the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). President Truman’s vision of the CIA was a peacetime intelligence agency that provided early warnings in the event of an attack. After President Truman signed the National Security Act of 1947, a loophole was found. The National Security Act “instructed the CIA to correlate, evaluate, and disseminate intelligence and to perform ‘other functions and duties related to intelligence affecting the national security’ ” (Weiner 2007). The CIA used this wording of ‘other functions’ to conduct secret operations overseas and to practice cloak and dagger methods in obtaining intelligence. Since its establishment over sixty years ago, the CIA’s implementation of cloak and dagger intelligence gathering has evolved to developing a componen...
Homeland security entities are proactive in the fight against terrorism on American soil. Their mandate is to collect information relating to potential attacks and analyze it to find a solution to the danger. With this in mind, these entities employ numerous spying techniques to collect intelligence for safeguarding of the nation. Homeland security entities have spies in almost all the countries in the world, especially those that show aggression towards America. The main aim of these spies is to carry out espionage to determine threat levels and find ways of neutralizing threats (Randol, 2009). This involves deployment of secret agents to areas or countries that exhibit terrorism activity in a bid to collect information. The spies interact with local people and members of terrorist groups using aliases that enable them conceal their identities.
Even before the National Security Act, our nation’s officials used spies, secret agents, covert action, and the gathering of intelligence during wars. During the Revolutionary War, George Washington drafted Nathan Hale and other spies to help them acquire independence. Benjamin Franklin and John Jay also created secret missions and operations to ensure their success during this war. These missions included secret agents and double agents, sabotage, raids against British troops, secret codes, propaganda and the spreading of false information (Wagner 13).
The appearance of something is almost always the opposite of what it is in reality. In this time, masks are used everywhere. Masks are used to hide reality and give a different appearance. Appearances can be deceiving and will almost always trick you into thinking something that is not true. Literature, social media, and pop culture show that people will change themselves so they conform to societal expectations. In most literature, masks are used as a device to show appearance instead of reality.
When attending a masquerade, a person is expected to wear a mask. In fact, it’s looked down upon if a mask isn’t worn. But, what if for some people that mask never came off? In A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen, each character has constructed their own metaphorical mask that they set firmly in place every morning when exiting their bed. Each character: Nora, Torvald, Kristine and Krogstad all have masks that they put in place when speaking to each other. Throughout most of the play, it is clear that all of the aforementioned characters have multiple facades that they use when speaking to one another; often switching quickly as they begin speaking to someone else. Henrik Ibsen’s use of the masquerade serves as an extended metaphor to show the masks that the characters use in their everyday lives.
The purpose of a mask is to hide everything that is wrong by not showing it in the slightest. Not even that makes anything better for the mask user and will NOT solve anything for them. A short-term solution will not solve a long-term problem and can make the situation worse. Characters like Avis in the novel “We Are Called To Rise” use a variety of masks to hide the variety of problems in their lives. In the novel, Laura McBride uses Avis and their use of an emotional avoidance mask to demonstrate that she purposely hides how she really feels by showing no strength or emotion.
‘The stranger’ as Simmel may suggest, helps assist individuals to build their own identity within the group, they can do this through imitation by adopting certain styles. By imitating, the individual experiences the feeling of being part of the group, providing the individual with satisfaction of not “standing alone in his actions” (Simmel, 1908, p.295). The stranger and fashion operates similarly in terms of the desire to be different and wanting to fit in. For instance, the cherry headband would not become so popular if it was completely different to the mainstream style. The headband had to still carry an attractive quality, for example the cherry headband had a glittery effect (see fig. 2) that is quite appealing so it balances the product in terms of being unique but is still
The Study of Intelligence Agents The study of intelligence agents has emerged as a more effective, practical alternative to artificial intelligence, or AI research. Alan Kay of Apple Computers and Nicholas Negroponte of MIT first wrote about the concept of intelligence agents in the 1970’s. Although no autonomous agents had been programmed, they envisioned them as an alternative to the development of AI. Throughout the 1950’s, most engineers and scientists expected that AI research would bring about artificial personal assistants, who possessed an artificial brain that literally mimicked the nature of real human intelligence. Realizing that this may be too ambitious a goal, agent developers hoped to program more simple software that could, for example, manage schedules, purchase items, organize documents and screen phone calls without needing to emulate human brain waves.