Tradecraft and Countersurveillance for the Amateur
How do intelligence officers obtain information from a contact without giving away the contact’s identity? How do counterintelligence teams follow a spy? How could resistance workers meet in secret? This class looks at some simple techniques from the intelligence officer’s toolbox, including dead letter boxes, foot surveillance and countersurveillance, and the use of go-betweens.
You’ll try these skills out on the street, using exercises based on ones leaked from the UK Security Service (aka MI5) and the UK Secret Intelligence Service (MI6). This is a practical class: You’ll be divided into teams and assigned tasks that you must keep secret from the other students. We only meet as a full class later, for a debrief and further practice.
Location
Dupont Circle area
Washington,
DC
Neighborhood: Dupont Circle
Address will be emailed upon registration.
Past event
Instructor
David Ramos is a designer, developer, and design educator. He works on projects that support entrepreneurs, advocates, environmentalists, and journalists. His professional practice encompasses interaction design, web application development, cartography, and information design. He teaches at American University, offering classes that integrate culture, code, and form. David is interested in landscape history and ways of interpreting the places that surround us.