Undercover intelligence gathers information on the political situation of a particular region, state or district that belong to probable or active opponents. Agents recognize the mobilization capabilities of the armed forces, the dislocation of troops. Undercover intelligence combines the actions of special government agencies in conjunction with the military apparatus to obtain classified materials about another country. The work is carried out in a peaceful or martial law in an illegal way.
Unofficial whistleblower functions
Undercover intelligence cannot effectively fulfill the tasks assigned to it without specialized staff. These units include special specialists. They are called differently by foreigners, in their own way they interpret the term in Russia. The main definitions endowed with an intelligence agent:
- For the FBI in the United States, this is an operations officer position.
- The CIA considers those recruited for unofficial work of persons not included in the main intelligence staff.
- The Mossad of Israel refers to them as officials.
Russian intelligence often in its secret documentation calls agents a source of intelligence.
What methods are recruited?
There are data from various literary sources on how citizens obtain agent status. Based on ideological beliefs:
- ideological considerations influence, why a person begins voluntary cooperation;
- the agent is distinguished by initiative, the work is marked by high productivity;
- such candidates are observed in small numbers, but history has fixed names.
There is evidence when employees are recruited for a large reward. These figures are also noted for their particular diligence. For special services, their services are expensive. Intelligence uses such methods selectively when information is needed in a particular area of government activity. They do not shy away from using compromising image data to attract cooperation. For this, the agent is under constant control and pressure with the help of blackmail, but the costs of such work are low.
Where do Russian intelligence officers learn?
The school of undercover intelligence of the Russian army is located in the Military Academy under the control of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. From the walls of this educational institution come highly specialized:
- Military diplomats.
- Attache.
- Scouts.
After training, military intelligence intelligence receives high-level specialists in its staff. Prepare them at the faculties:
- Operational tactics.
- Agent-operative.
- Strategic agents.
Students are accepted in the officer rank with knowledge of a foreign language.
Legalization Understanding
Scouts fulfill the tasks assigned by the leadership. Their complexity is due to:
- conditions;
- furnishings;
- personal qualities.
When sending a specialist abroad, they create legal rights for him to be in a foreign country. He gets a job, rents or acquires housing, it depends on the timing of his intelligence activities. Work can be different:
- by volume;
- content;
- the nature and methods of achieving the goal.
Depending on the full or partial legalization of the scout, they provide:
- reliable cover;
- profession;
- documents
- develop a legend.
The cover masks the stay, provides the scout with the object with which his mission is associated, and justifies a long stay in a certain region.
What methods do they use?
After difficult training, the agent applies all his acquired knowledge in practice. Many people like the romance of feature films about legendary scouts. In life, they have to risk a long and painstakingly gathering bit of information of interest to the country:
- observation;
- eavesdropping;
- information transfer;
- copying seized or stolen documents, drawings of new models of equipment, weapons.
The scout himself chooses a convenient method for observation, depending on the range of the object and the situation in the area.
What is the essence of undercover work?
Diplomatic and consular corps are often focused on intelligence work. The legalization of finding to perform covert actions limits agents to the law, the custom of the state, which cannot be applied for wartime. But a scout, in order to achieve his goal, does anything that does not at all correspond to moral principles, they cannot be stopped:
- criminal intentions;
- meanness;
- legislative provisions;
- prejudice.
For specialists of this level there are no impossible tasks in any area. They cannot be expelled from the country as ordinary workers of the diplomatic mission because their real existence is secret, and their activities are not subject to laws. The scout is not sent to collect random information, his work is clearly subordinate to the plan, a system that gradually provides a path to the intended goal, of course, using its own initiative and acquired skills.
Historical data and modern statistics show evolution, growth in scale and increasing importance of undercover intelligence as a particularly important phenomenon. Recent and present wars prove the existence of invisible regiments operating in a tense global context for political and economic equilibrium or contradictions. The result is a struggle of one part of the world with another.
Other types of reconnaissance operations, limited by conventions, can only complement, play the role of an auxiliary in intelligence intelligence. From this stands out even more its colossal size and special significance in comparison with other methods. When espionage is exposed, it becomes known in widespread circles, it is parsed by a lawsuit. These cases do not set an example in an immutable solid theory. Exposure will be the reason for the organization to change one method to another with more careful conspiracy.
How to protect the secrets of the country?
In order to fully understand the importance of the work of intelligence, it is necessary to clarify that each country is trying to protect its important strategic secrets. Foreigners are also trying to penetrate our facilities, to find out how reliably defenses are created. Budget money is spent on the country's security to create reliable potential:
- foreign policy;
- economic;
- intelligence;
- counterintelligence;
- scientific and technical.
State secret is a combination of the listed information, the dissemination of which will harm the sovereignty of the country and its security. Forms a list of Federal Law No. 5485-1, based on the Constitution of the Russian Federation.
How to get access?
It happens that entrepreneurial activity or the work of companies has an indirect or direct relationship with state secrets. In order to provide services or deliver products, regulatory authorities require a state secret license. The document is issued by the FSB for the following types of work:
- construction, design, repair on the territory of a sensitive facility, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the FSB;
- protection of secret objects;
- delivery of products to trade enterprises in the territory of individual departments.
Employees undergo a particularly rigorous audit, collect the required documents, enter into a non-disclosure agreement.