Intent Misdirection Layering: A Fog for Your Real Objective
A tradecraft deception method where an operative creates multiple believable mission narratives through movements, materials, and contact...
Tradecraft
How to Live a Double Life (spies)
Living a double life is about control, precision, and keeping your lies cleaner than your truths. To...
Hostile Environment Pre-Scripting
In high-risk and non-permissive areas, your tongue is your first weapon and your last shield. A tight...
Neutralizing Your Body Language to be Unreadable
Information leaks out of your body without you talking. Tradecraft isn’t just about watching what you say,...
Compromise Management: What to Do When You’re Caught, Called Out or Exposed
Being exposed, verbally or otherwise, isn’t always the end of the op. It’s just the start of...
Active ‘Street Assessment’ Method
A covert operative’s guide to owning any given urban street in real time as a professional on...
How to Know if Someone is “Social Engineering” You
How do you know if someone’s running game on you by way of social engineering? This is...
Vetting Someone Like a CIA Operative But Without Database Access
A guide to running a base background check CIA-style, using open-source intelligence and tradecraft – without special...
How to Profile Someone Like The FBI
FBI profiling isn’t just people-watching, it’s gathering behavioral intel, decoding patterns, and using observational skills to assess...
An Intuition For Weakness
The ability to spot weakness can give you control in negotiating, persuading, or assessing a potential threat....
Making Yourself Useful in Any Group to Gain Influence and Protection
Whether you’re navigating a dangerous city, infiltrating a hostile network, or just trying to hold your own...
How to Read a Room in 10 Seconds
Walking into any room or space, you’ve got about ten seconds to figure out the situation and...