Gideon's Spies

DST The Directorate for Surveillance of the Territory is the largest and most powerful of France’s intelligence agencies. Has several thousand employees. Operates both internally and overseas. Wide-ranging responsibilities include surveillance of all foreign embassies in Paris and conducting a large number of clandestine operations. Reports directly to incumbent minister of the interior.

DGSE Direction Générale de la Sécurité Exterieure. Brief is to gather industrial and economic intelligence, penetrate terrorist organizations, and conduct oldfashioned spying.

SGDN Reports to the incumbent prime minister, the Secrétariat Général de la Défense Nationale provides an overview of military intelligence developments in countries of interest to France.

JAPAN

NAICHO Part of Cabinet Research Office. Has a large budget to analyse defense policies of all major nations of interest to Japan.

MITI Responsible for gathering commercial and economic data worldwide.

PSIA The Public Security Investigation Agency concentrates on counter-terrorism and counter-espionage. Primarily operates internally but increasingly by 1999 had developed a global approach.

BRIEF ARABIC GLOSSARY

Ayatollah Title in the hierarchy of the Shite clergy

Dawa Propagation of the faith; also a call to Islam

Deobandi School of doctors of Islamic law founded in 1867 to preach against British domination in India

Fatwa Legal opinion based on the holy texts of Islam; usually ratified by senior clerics

Fedayeen Men ready to sacrifice themselves for a sacred cause; most recently applied to suicide bombers

Fiqh Unchallengeable Muslim law

Haj Pilgrimage to Mecca to be attained by every devout Muslim once in a lifetime

Harb War, especially when waged in the land of infidels

Hezbollah Party of God, prominent in Israel and Lebanon

Hegira Flight of the Prophet in September 622 from Mecca to Medina, signifying the establishing of Islam

Hudud Punishments in religious law, sharia, such as the stoning of a woman guilty of adultery, beheading for a crime, etc.

Imam A mosque’s director of prayer and the authority on all matters of religious regulation

Intifada Uprisings; usually applied to the two Palestinian uprisings of 1987 and 2000

Jihad Holy war to propagate Islamic faith and overthrow infidels

Madrassa Religious school where Islamic law is taught

Mujahideen (singular: mujahed ) Jihad fighters.

Pasdaran Members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards

Shebab Arab youth

Takir Excommunication from the Islamic faith

Taliban Graduates of a religious school

Ulema Doctors of Islamic law

Wahhabism Founded by Ibn Abu al-Wahhab (1703–92); Puritan doctrine still dominating Saudi Arabia

GLOSSARY

Active measures Operations to influence or otherwise affect other

ANC nations’ policies African National Congress

ANO Abu Nidal Organization

AFR Automatic fingerprint recognition

AI Artificial intelligence

AL Specialist unit operating under deep cover in the United States

Aman Israeli military intelligence

ASU Active service terrorist unit

AWAC Airborne warning and control aircraft

Babbler Counterbugging device

Backstopping Fake identification papers

Base Permanent station in foreign country

Bat leveyha Female assistant agent

Better world Euphemism for killing enemy agent; similarly, to “send a person on vacation” means to injure him/her—the extent of the injury depends on whether the “vacation” is to be brief or long

Bioleverage Euphemism for blackmail—literally, the use of derogatory information to coerce someone

Blind dating Meeting place chosen by a contact to meet his controller

Blow-back Fake stories fed to foreign news media

Bodel A courier

BND BundesNachrichtenDienst, German Federal Intelligence Service, concerned with both foreign and domestic intelligence

Bug Electronic device for hearing and recording

Burn An agent deliberately sacrificed in order to protect a more valuable spy

BW Biological weapons

Case death Operation that fails for no obvious reason

Case officer In charge of field agents

CAT Computer-aided tomography

Chamfering Technique for opening sealed mail

CIA Central Intelligence Agency

CIS Commonwealth of Independent States

CIO Central Imagery Office

Cold approach Attempt to recruit a foreign national

Comint Acronym for communications intelligence

Cover Identity assumed by intelligence officer when abroad

Cultivation Establishing rapport with a source of information

CW Chemical weapons

Daylight Highest form of alert

Dardasim Agents operating in China

DEA Drug Enforcement Administration

DI Directorate of Intelligence

DCI Director of Central Intelligence Agency

DIA Defence Intelligence Agency

Diamond Communications unit

DO Directorate of Operations