Gordon Thomas - Gideon's Spies

NCNANominally a news agency reporting on Chinese affairs. Has long been a cover for all other Chinese intelligence agencies engaged in clandestine activities.

DASMiniscule (staff of under 50 in 1999). Focuses on assessing long-term defense planning work by other nations.

DPSDDirection du Production et de la Sécurité de la Défense. Responsible for gathering military intelligence abroad.

DRMAt the coal-face of French satellite intelligence program. Divided into five sub-directorates. Reports directly to prime minister of the day.

DSTThe 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.

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

SGDNReports 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.

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

MITIResponsible for gathering commercial and economic data worldwide.

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

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

Active measuresOperations to influence or otherwise affect other

ANCnations’ policies African National Congress

ANOAbu Nidal Organization

AFRAutomatic fingerprint recognition

AIArtificial intelligence

ALSpecialist unit operating under deep cover in the United States

AmanIsraeli military intelligence

ASUActive service terrorist unit

AWACAirborne warning and control aircraft

BabblerCounterbugging device

BackstoppingFake identification papers

BasePermanent station in foreign country

Bat leveyhaFemale assistant agent

Better worldEuphemism 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

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

Blind datingMeeting place chosen by a contact to meet his controller

Blow-backFake stories fed to foreign news media

BodelA courier

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

BugElectronic device for hearing and recording

BurnAn agent deliberately sacrificed in order to protect a more valuable spy

BWBiological weapons

Case deathOperation that fails for no obvious reason

Case officerIn charge of field agents

CATComputer-aided tomography

ChamferingTechnique for opening sealed mail

CIACentral Intelligence Agency

CISCommonwealth of Independent States

CIOCentral Imagery Office

Cold approachAttempt to recruit a foreign national

ComintAcronym for communications intelligence

CoverIdentity assumed by intelligence officer when abroad

CultivationEstablishing rapport with a source of information

CWChemical weapons

DaylightHighest form of alert

DardasimAgents operating in China

DEADrug Enforcement Administration

DIDirectorate of Intelligence

DCIDirector of Central Intelligence Agency

DIADefence Intelligence Agency

DiamondCommunications unit

DODirectorate of Operations

Dry cleaningVarious techniques to avoid surveillance

ECMElectronic countermeasure

EDPElectronic data processing

ElintElectronic intelligence intercepted from radar, satellites

ExfiltrateRemoving an agent from hostile country

FalachAgent working in Lebanon

FACESFacial Analysis Comparison and Elimination System

False flaggingRecruiting a person who believes he or she will be working for another country or interest

FumigateSweeping an area for electronic bugs

Go-awayPrearranged signal not to make contact at previously arranged rendezvous

GrinderDebriefing room, also used to interrogate suspects