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...
Tradecraft
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...
Using Crowds as Early Warning Detection Systems
Crowds are more than just groups of people moving through public spaces – they’re living, breathing sensors....
The CIA Method of Leveraging People
In the intelligence game, leverage is everything. You don’t just collect secrets – you collect people. This...
Subtle Ways Spies Extract Information With Casual Conversation
Getting people to spill valuable intel without them even realizing it? That’s an art form. Skilled operatives...
12 Nonverbal Deception Techniques
The base dozen key techniques covert operatives use to manipulate nonverbal communication effectively for deception. People rarely...
