The FBI teaches you lie detection, people reading and intelligence skills

Chapter 75 Intelligence Personnel: Dancer in the Dark, Behind the Stage of History (1)
Intelligence personnel wander between illusion and reality, performing their own double lives.No matter in the war-torn era, or in the peaceful era of singing and dancing, the erratic figures of intelligence personnel always make people feel mysterious, weird and difficult to distinguish.The sea of ​​spies is vast, and what the intelligence personnel bring us are thrilling legends, scenes of feasts and mysteries that may never be solved...

§§§ Section [-] Intelligence Personnel Are Not Myths
If someone mentions intelligence personnel, probably the first thing everyone thinks of will be James Bond, the protagonist in the "007" series of movies.Although James Bond is a fictional character, his influence on people is not small. Almost everyone believes that the life of a real intelligence officer is like that of James Bond--first-class skills, not only can skillfully use all kinds of transportation by sea, land and air Tools, even space shuttle pilots, which astronauts take years to learn, can also be used freely; driving the latest luxury cars equipped with magical weapons of various colors; wearing designer suits, entering and leaving high-end hotels; People are either rich or noble, even the prime minister often has to talk to him on the phone, and when he catches up with a beautiful woman, he doesn't necessarily give the prime minister this face...

After all, a movie is a movie, a fiction, not a real life state of an agent.The life of an intelligence officer in reality is far from the life of James Bond in the movie, or even completely opposite, it is just a myth, it is not true.Next, let's dissect the mystery of intelligence personnel and restore the real life status of intelligence personnel in real life.

Myth #[-]: All intelligence officers are sharpshooters, boxers and race car drivers.Shooting, fighting, and driving are all part of the common teaching content of intelligence personnel schools around the world.However, most intelligence officers lose these skills quickly after their careers.According to the logic of a mafia boss: "A lawyer with a suitcase grabs more money than a gangster with a gun." That is to say, intelligence officers mainly rely on their brains to win, not force.There is a quip among Russian agents: Our main weapons are - pens, wine glasses, steering wheels.

Myth #[-]: Intelligence agencies pay generously.Intelligence officers always wear designer fashions, drive luxury cars, and go to high-end restaurants...

Today, the richest secret service agencies are the CIA and the British Secret Service.However, by Western standards, their permanent staff income is moderate.Rookie intelligence officers who are highly educated and speak at least one foreign language now earn just $2000 a month, compared with at least $3000 a month if they were in private industry.Western intelligence officers with decades of service are paid barely enough to live without poverty.Intelligence agents generally rely on 25-year loans to buy homes and ordinary cars.Moreover, intelligence officers can't even think about owning high-end racing cars, manors and yachts, and they can't expect to go to restaurants to drink and eat frequently.Only when the department holds "events" in high-end restaurants can we eat delicious food and drink rare wines.

Aldrich Ames, a CIA agent, believed that he could not live a good life on a legal income, so he cooperated with the KGB, the former Soviet intelligence agency.The Americans say Aldrich Ames received at least $9 million during his nine years of cooperation with the KGB.Aldrich Ames sold nearly 270 CIA secret intelligence documents, exposing the identity of dozens of American agents in the former Soviet Union.

The famous former Soviet intelligence officer Sorge is also extremely poor.The General Intelligence Directorate of the former Soviet General Staff only gave Sorge a total of $1000 a month, which included renting a house for his intelligence team and paying daily expenses.Even these funds are not coming in on time, and there are strict orders to save money.

Russian intelligence operatives working legally abroad are now equipped with housing and cars, as are staff in foreign agencies.Their salary is the same as that of diplomats, ranging from 1500 to 4000 US dollars per month according to the living conditions of the specific country.

It can be seen that the income of intelligence personnel is not high, and intelligence agencies do not give intelligence personnel so much funding. Therefore, it is a myth that intelligence personnel always wear famous brands, drive luxury cars, and enter high-end hotels.

Myth [-]: The work of intelligence personnel is dangerous and exciting. They often carry miniature cameras, sneak into the homes of generals, diplomats, ministers or bankers at night, break open the safe, and shoot wildly at valuable information.

In fact, in a certain sense, it is much easier for intelligence personnel to steal information than ordinary people imagine. Some information is actually just what they have at their fingertips and what they have heard by ear.In Arlington National Cemetery, there is an ordinary sergeant named Jack Dunlap buried, he is the most dangerous intelligence officer in the history of the United States.The tall, lanky superintelligence agent worked as a postman for the NSA.It was only three years later that Jack Dunlap's bosses suddenly remembered that the $100-a-week postman drove a Jaguar limousine, owned a sailboat, and was a frequent visitor to luxury restaurants and sailing clubs.But Jack Dunlap didn't live long enough to reveal his identity, taking the secret of his recruitment to his grave.

Can a person working as an embassy cleaner have access to the minister?Can the documents on the minister's desk be taken away casually?Ordinary people may think that this is absolutely impossible.But all senior officials must have assistants and secretaries who know as much as their superiors.Assistants and secretaries are much closer than senior officials.Jack Dunlap obtained a lot of information through close contact with these officials.

In 1943, the Germans obtained from Baziner the content of the conversation between US President Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill on the Allied Normandy landing plan.And Baziner is not a high-ranking official, but a servant of the British ambassador to Turkey.For nearly a year, Barziner sold vast amounts of Allied intelligence to the head of the German secret service in Ankara.And the channel for this man to obtain information is also very simple, just listening to the ambassador chatting with various people, it can be said that it took no effort at all.

Therefore, it can be said that it is not necessarily dangerous for intelligence personnel to collect information. Most of the intelligence comes very easily. Again, intelligence personnel work by wisdom.

§§§ Section [-] Intelligence officers have no ego
For an intelligence officer, the "interests of the country", that is, the safety of the intelligence they collect, and the safety of other intelligence personnel come first. For this reason, they can sell their feelings, their bodies, or even any Things that can be sold, even their own lives.To this end, they can disregard the laws of justice without having to bear the condemnation of conscience, because the national interest they want to defend is the most noble to them.Therefore, compared to the security of intelligence, their self-esteem and personality are insignificant.

Those who work as intelligence officers require a kind of courage that ordinary people do not possess.This kind of courage is different from the bravery of "heroes" and the selflessness of "heroes".On the contrary, these unique and noble qualities that exist in "heroes" are not only useless to an intelligence officer, but will harm them, and even become an obstacle to their success.The kind of courage intelligence requires is the result of years of living a life of solitude, always on the lookout not to run into enemies and not draw any attention from counterintelligence personnel.

An excellent spy, he can't drink alcohol, can't have a lover, love often kills the spy, because the emotion is often unexpectedly difficult to control.People who like to spread rumors and talkative are a threat to themselves and their companions.In extreme anxiety and anticipation, they must completely control the emotions that may be expressed at any time.Because their work is like a double-edged sword, which can kill the enemy as well as themselves.

§§§Section [-] Intelligence officers have no friends
As an intelligence officer, I often come to a strange country alone with a counterfeit ID card, alone and without friends.He can't trust anyone, and he can't and shouldn't confide his impressions, hopes, fears and secrets to anyone, even to his closest friends and even family members.Their nerves are always on high alert, and they must maintain a high degree of vigilance against anyone around them.In addition, they have to bear psychological pressure that ordinary people cannot understand, because they don't know whether the person who pats them kindly on the shoulder is a friend or an enemy.Therefore, no matter it is day or night, they must maintain a high degree of vigilance against everything around them, but at the same time pretend to be nonchalant.

As an intelligence officer, they must be good at controlling their emotions, train their strength, language expression ability, and thinking ability, and ensure that they cannot show their flaws at any time.Even when you are asleep or making love, you must control your nerves.Because a dream talk in a dream or a raving in love is enough to kill them.Therefore, for an intelligence officer, it is very important to be cautious in words and strict in deeds.A little carelessness, any slight negligence will be caught by counterintelligence personnel who are more cunning than them, thus ruining their own lives.

§§§ Section [-] Intelligence officers have no rights
When the CIA trains agents, the first rule is to require each agent to ensure that they cannot be caught.Therefore, intelligence personnel always carry various drugs with them when performing tasks, one of which is used for suicide, and its ingredients are generally strong drugs, and a small dose is enough to kill intelligence personnel instantly.For intelligence personnel, once they are caught, it means death in the true sense, and what awaits them will be a life worse than death.We know that Nazi Germany and Japan used various inhumane tortures during the Second World War, such as inserting a sharpened needle into the heart of the finger without anesthesia, or pulling out the nail, or pouring pepper water on the prisoner, Or use a dental drill to grind the nerves of the teeth and other tortures.In fact, although some interrogation methods are simple and do not sound creepy, they can also break the will of prisoners.For example, water boarding has an ancient history.During the execution, a drop of water is dropped on the prisoner's head every few seconds. It will not take long before it is enough to destroy a person's strong willpower.Repeatedly interrupting sleep, starvation, and using drugs are also commonly used inhuman interrogation methods.For the intelligence personnel who have restrained themselves, endured loneliness and suspicion all the year round, once their resistance is destroyed, they will willingly reveal everything they know in order to obtain spiritual relief.Except for some intelligence personnel with diplomatic immunity, most intelligence personnel are often sentenced to death or life imprisonment, especially during wars, when their lives are lost faster.

Intelligence officers are brave fighters, but they do not enjoy the rights of prisoners of war like soldiers on the battlefield.In fact, even if a captured intelligence officer will not be executed, no one or department will believe him anymore, including the motherland he served in. In fact, he is no different from death.

Therefore, for an intelligence officer, they have to bear the huge psychological pressure of being caught and executed at any time. They don't know whether they will see the rising sun tomorrow.

§§§ Section [-] Intelligence personnel only have a country, not a home

Intelligence personnel, as an effective means of military, political, diplomatic struggles and even economic and technological competition between countries or between groups, are produced with the emergence of countries and are the product of class struggle.Therefore, it can be said that since the day the country was born, intelligence personnel from all walks of life have been tainted with national colors, and intelligence personnel have infiltrated each other's camp in a covert manner, carrying out organizational development, stealing secrets, and other sabotage activities. To overthrow the power of the other country.The use of intelligence personnel to engage in divisive and subversive activities, eliminate foreign countries, and expand the sphere of influence has become an effective means of subduing political opponents without resorting to war in national conflicts.

However, when these intelligence personnel were tainted with national colors, a very ordinary soul was also taken away, and the intelligence personnel were forced to embark on a road of no return that abandoned ethics, family affection and even life, and performed a hidden story. A different kind of life in the dark.Sadly, there are not a few people who have such a fate.

In fact, during the Second World War, when intelligence personnel warfare on the hidden front was already in full swing, major intelligence personnel agencies in various countries at that time, such as the Central Intelligence Agency of the United States, the KGB of the former Soviet Union, and the Military Intelligence Six of the United Kingdom Without exception, the Department and others do everything possible to use their intelligence personnel to go to other countries to collect, transmit, analyze information, and obtain intelligence in an attempt to know themselves and the enemy in the war, thus laying the foundation for the victory of the war.At the same time, various counter-intelligence agencies, such as the FBI, the KGB of the former Soviet Union, and the Fifth Military Intelligence Service of the United Kingdom, also use all available technologies and means to eradicate intelligence personnel hidden inside to safeguard their own security interests. .It can be seen that there are only a handful of intelligence personnel who can complete the task and escape unscathed due to the cruelty and intensity of the intelligence personnel war.

In order to obtain important information from the captured intelligence personnel, the counterintelligence personnel agency will conduct severe interrogation on the captured intelligence personnel, and occasionally mentally torture or torture them.When national honor and personal life collided fiercely, some intelligence personnel chose to commit suicide, because their mission warned them not to confess any information, because doing so would endanger the mission of intelligence personnel and the safety of other intelligence personnel involved.

The United States once instructed people from the CIA to decipher French codes, the former Soviet Union sent people to conduct economic intelligence in Finland, and German diplomats were expelled for spying on Japan's automobile manufacturing technology.Even though these intelligence personnel with glorious missions know that the future will be bumpy, but they only have the country in their hearts and they will embark on the journey resolutely.In the lonely and brutal struggle, what motivates them is the honorary declaration that "national interests are above all else".American intelligence officer pilot Francis Gary Powers is one of them.

For most of the 20th century, U.S. intelligence personnel kept a close eye on their Cold War counterpart, the former Soviet Union, because they wanted to know everything about them.After the successful development of the high-performance U-2 aircraft, the pilot Bowers was immediately entrusted with important tasks and became one of its first pilots.

On May 1960, 5, a grand military parade to celebrate Labor Day was going on on Red Square in Moscow.At this time, Powers had already entered the airspace of the former Soviet Union with a U-1 plane.Bowers will drive reconnaissance across the entire former Soviet Union and conduct a comprehensive photo reconnaissance of it.

The United States is still complacent. In the eyes of senior officials of the CIA, the U-2 aircraft was the most advanced aircraft at that time, flying very high and safe, so Powers will be able to successfully complete the mission.But U-2 aircraft also have hidden dangers. The biggest problem facing U-2 aircraft is that they cannot defend themselves against air-to-air missiles and the threat of surface-to-air missiles piloted by visual inspection.

Four hours after the U-2 plane took off, it was still discovered by the air defense radar of the former Soviet Union, and the air defense missile of the former Soviet Union immediately locked the target.

The Soviets fired a total of 14 anti-aircraft missiles, one of which exploded near Powers' tail. The huge shock wave destroyed the tail and severely damaged the structure of the U-2 aircraft.At this time, Bowers knew very well that it was impossible to complete this mission.

However, a dramatic scene appeared. The technology that the anti-aircraft missile successfully shot down Powers was leaked to the former Soviet Union by another American intelligence officer.

After the U-2 plane was hit, Powers quickly activated the ejection seat and opened the parachute. When he fell freely in the air, the former Soviets were already waiting for him on the ground.What Bowers faced was three months of non-stop interrogation, with daily interrogations lasting 16 hours.

Under the glare of the spotlight, the former Soviets threatened and lured Powers, using both soft and hard tactics, but Powers was very determined and determined not to surrender.When the ex-Soviet tortured him in desperation, Bowers, who became a prisoner, could only face two choices: either continue to endure this inhuman torture, or commit suicide with the poison given to him by the CIA.

In the summer of 1960, Powers was put on trial in Moscow.He walked through the long aisle in the middle of the sentencing auditorium, and finally stood in the dock. Powers said solemnly: "I beg the court to judge me as an ordinary person, not an enemy."

However, Powers in front of the Soviets was an air intelligence officer, an enemy from the United States.In the end, Powers was found guilty of intelligence agent conduct and will serve 12 years in a former Soviet prison.

However, Powers' prison career ended prematurely.After only 18 months in prison, the former Soviets traded Powers back for former Soviet intelligence officer Rudolf Abel.Powers was finally able to return to the United States.

(End of this chapter)