Espionage (also called spying) is the process states use to gather intelligence on each other. Use with specific country tags.
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What stops one country from issuing another country's passports?
In following the ongoing story about a Chinese spy who defected to Australia, I see this paragraph about the breaking point for why the defection happened:
He said that in Taiwan he was part of an infiltration operation that involved him – working…
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How do these deals with rogue states and the like happen?
It is mostly from Hollywood movies but I have read true story books and have seen news reports on people (not always spies) selling things from weapons, secrets, hacking products, to infiltration services and alike.
In real life how would someone go…
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For the purpose of espionage, is it more beneficial to have access to the original classified documents versus its copies?
As far as I understand, the illegal access to classified documents in the US is regulated by the Espionage Act. This old act has since been amended to cover electronic copies of classified information.
However, I still do not understand why spies…
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