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S Secret Writing
ny tradecraft technique employing invisible messages hidden in or on innocuous materials. This includes invisible inks and microdots, among many other variations. |
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S Security Service
Usually a country's internal counterintelligence service. |
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S Sensing Device
A technical sensor designed to react to a concealed mark, chemical compound, or passive element. |
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S SIGINT
Signals intelligence; the amalgamation of COMINT and ELINT into one unit of intelligence gathering dealing with all electronic emanations and transmissions. |
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S Signals
Any form of clandestine tradecraft using a system of marks, signs, or codes for signaling between operatives. |
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S SITREP
Situation report, sent to CIA headquarters during an operation or crisis. |
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S Spoofing
A ploy designed to deceive the observer into believing that an operation has gone bad when, in fact, it has been put into another compartment. Also used to describe altering your identity on the web through electronic means to hide or mask your true location and identity. |
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S Sun Tzu
Chinese general who wrote The Art of War in about 400 b.c. |
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S Swallow
A female operative who uses sex as a tool. |
