Field Notes: The Human Side of Intel
In training, the Bureau dropped me in a non-descript compound in Virginia and taught me how to run human sources like it was the real thing. What stuck was not the tradecraft, but the people.
Field Notes: When You’re the One Being Watched
Working with a source on a Russian arms procurement case, I suddenly found myself dealing with an unexpected twist: my source believed they were being followed. We set up counter-surveillance and discovered it was not who we thought at all.