dry kleaner
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 Posted: Sat Mar 25, 2006 12:51 pm Post subject: False Flag Recruitments |
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This is an extact from 'Spy' by Harry Ferguson. This page deals with how False Flag operations work and why you would need one. Harry Ferguson worked with MI6 as an anayist and later worked for HM Customs in the Kilo and Lima units. He was one of the presenters and trainers on the BBC show Spy in 2004.
| Quote: | False Flag Recruitments
In the case of a False Flag recruitment, deniability is not even an issue since the agent himself thinks he is working for another country. In some cases services may even recruit under a False Flag, get the agent to commit an atrocity, then expose the agent to make it look as though some other country is responsible. The other country takes the blame. For instance, suppose Mossad were to recruit a number of Arabs who believed they ewer in fact working for al Qaeda. If they then committed an atrocity in the USA, the benefits for Israel in terms of increased funding and political support would be considerable.
A False Flag recruitment is used for one of two reason:
1. The target would never agree to work for your country for some national, religious or personal reason.
2. You want the agent to believe that they are working for another country so that if they are ever caught, another country will get blamed.
If you can pull it off the rewards can be great. The agent will work for you quite normally, but if he is ever captured, even if he is tortured or given truth drugs, he will swear to his dying day that he is working for someone else. It is not even that difficult to pull off - most people are so surprised to be asked to spy in the first place that it never crosses their mind that the people who are recruiting them aren’t who they say they are. With a little careful ‘set dressing’ to carry off the subterfuge, most agents are easily hooked.
The downside of such an operation is that if you are ever caught doing it the consequences for relations with the other country are likely to be severe, so this sort of operation is unlikely to be undertaken without very high level government approval and probably only against a country which is already your enemy.
Ferguson 2004:115 |
Spy
Harry Ferguson
ISBN 0-7475-7523-1 |
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