Spycatcher

Wright, P., & Greengrass, P. (1987). Spycatcher: The Candid Autobiography of a Senior Intelligence Officer. Penguin 390.

Type

Book

Intellectual base

Review or monograph

Year

1987

Link

https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GOVPUB-PREX3-PURL-gpo16776/pdf/GOVPUB-PREX3-PURL-gpo16776.pdf

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Mechanisms

• Deception Blowback Register
  • It plants uniquely-worded "canary" records — a barium meal

    This sourceDescribes the counterintelligence “barium meal” technique of planting distinctive bait to expose a leak.

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