Layered Verbal Encoding: Two-Tier Conversational Camouflage
The skill of speaking in two simultaneous messages. One innocuous for anyone listening, and one covert for...
Tradecraft
How to Develop Hunches Like a Covert Operative
Operatives know the most valuable intel often comes from something you can’t quite explain – that quiet...
Urban Cover Pulse Mapping: Timing Your Moves to Disappear
The tradecraft practice of syncing your movements with a city’s natural rhythms, like transit surges, market spikes,...
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...
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...