Definition of tradecraft
: the techniques and procedures of espionage
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Some investigators believed China might have penetrated the C.I.A.’s covert communications or sloppy tradecraft.
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Aside from Chapman – whose tradecraft was closer to Austin Powers than 007 – the spies arrested in the U.S. made up a big chunk of Russia’s Illegals Program.
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But that memo and many of the 2,800 once-secret documents that were made public harken back to an era of Cold War intrigue and spy-versus-spy contests, when assassinations and clandestine plots were a matter of tradecraft, not John le Carré novels.
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These individuals—including several in his inner circle—would only arrange a meeting or a conversation using tradecraft worthy of C.I.A. case officers.
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A dead drop is a form of tradecraft in which two individuals … can communicate material and information in a location where neither of them have to meet.
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But modern Russian tradecraft of the kind Jamali describes, often an extension of the business world, is increasingly at the center of the case.
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But modern Russian tradecraft of the kind Jamali describes, often an extension of the business world, is increasingly at the center of the case.
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A. The level of sophistication in carrying out the attack would suggest the bomber, Salman Abedi, 22, may have received training in bombmaking, reconnaissance and other tradecraft.
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1961
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