Espionage
Espionage or spying is a practice of getting information about an organization, society, or country that is meant to be secret or confidential, without permission. Espionage usually involves having access to where the needed information is stored or to the people that know the information. In wartime, espionage is a war crime.
The person who (is unwillingly being spied upon or willingly) gives away information is called an "intelligence asset".[1][2][3][4] The person who receives information is called a "spy" or more vaguely an "agent". A double agent is one who trades information to both sides, and is (without their knowledge) related to or being employed by both sides.
Espionage Media
Madame Minna Craucher (right), a Finnish socialite and spy, with her chauffeur Boris Wolkowski (left) in 1930s
Painting of French spy captured during the Franco-Prussian War by Alphonse de Neuville, 1880
References
- ↑ Appel, Edward. "Recruiting and Operating Counterintelligence "Assets"". www.pbs.org.
- ↑ "INTelligence: Human Intelligence". www.cia.gov. Archived from the original on May 25, 2011.
- ↑ Ekpe, Bassey (2007). "The Intelligence Assets of the United Nations: Sources, Methods, and Implications". International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence. 20 (3): 377–400. doi:10.1080/08850600701249709. S2CID 154493112.
- ↑ S, Ben. "Intelligence Assets: What is an intelligence asset?". intelligence101.com/.
