Spy?

• Eavesdropping, peeping, probing into privacy, confidentiality & secrecy
• A private eye
• E.g. James Bond 007, Austin Powers?

Why spy?

• To fulfil needs, wants, desires, strategies, many …

Why does Russia spy US?

• Strategic data about American intentions
• Info. about whether US is helping Russian enemies like Chechnyans
• US technological info. & profiting from arms sales to nations, some are threats to US

Why does US spy Russia?

• US-Russia relation cooling
• Balkan conflicts
• NATO issues
• US NMD shield counteractions
• Russian nuclear arsenal
• Terrorism, narcotics trafficking, threats

What is the spy race all about?

• It is self-perpetuating
• Once enemy has spies, nation needs more spies to counter them

How's a spy?

• Trained undercover professional
• Proficient in bright & dark sides of strategic issues, knowledge
• Clever inside man
• Importance of secrecy, thorough planning, escape plan, closed identity

What's a mole?

• A mole is actually a double agent
• He is in fact a spy for either side
• Legally a spy for one, & unanimously a undercover spy for the other

Any famous moles?

• US: 1994 - Aldrich Ames, Harold Nicholson, Earl Pitts
• US: 2001 - Robert Hanssen
• Soviet: 1985 - Sergei Motorin, Valery Martynov, Boris Yuzhin

What makes a spy turn over?

• Varied reasons, or none at all
• Kick of cheating on both sides & escaping without harm
• Power, influence
• Revenge: for past events, professional torments, avenge acquaintance's injustice
• Strategic plan for passing misleading info. for tactical competitive advantage
• Mercenary: money makes world go around

What steps to stop moles?

• CIA: routine polygraph tests to "flutter" agents every five years to search out misbehaviour
• Focus: shortening the distance from defection to detection
• Smarter computer systems that signal senior managers whenever employee accesses sensitive case files
• "we may not recognise them when they belong - but we can when they don't belong"

What ethics should an ideal spy have?

• Ethics
• Organisational loyalty
• Comradeship, Stability, Professional

What happens when a spy is caught?

• Interrogation
• Imprisonment
• Death