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I would assume that in front of the headquarter of any major intelligence agency, there is a dozen minivans, one for each foreign agency, taking continuously recording+facial recognition of employees coming in an out. Useful to spot foreign agents when they come through your airports security.

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One would imagine SAD/SOG types are not exactly walking in through front door there are prob protocols in place for this type of things.

Unless we are talking about something like Russian GRU than they will basically list GRU building as their registered address in various open and semi open databases.

What are you talking about? Active GRU agents don't get designated as GRU and get embedded in other units.

Even on the direct action level, they aren't listed as GRU anywhere, wear the uniform of some regular unit in the area, and have paperwork saying they are a regular soldier.

Referring to https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2018/10/04/305-car-registrat...

Which is kind of a feel good story, point and laugh at those Russian idiots bungling things again.

Cool, thanks for the link.

You are not following events around Skripal poisoning are you?

haha, I guess I am not. My "knowledge" comes from history books about the USSR, so I guess I expected them not to be total xxxx ups.

This was such a total balls up that I wonder a little bit wether they did it on purpose so people wouldn't take them so seriously in the future.

Nope you just have to stop projecting what USSR was onto Russia outside of mostly same territory there is not much left as far as capabilities especially as far as human capital.

SOG I suspect typically comes in through the skylight :)

Or a mousehole C4 charge placed on the exterior wall :)

Don't think that parking outside the FSB or GRU HQ is going to be possible for the CIA or SIS. Or vice versa.

Hiding a fake base station to capture phones and wifi devices near by strikes me as one possible gambit (result of playing a lot or rpgs's over the years)

Do you remember when that guy recorded parking lot activity at the CIA headquarters and nobody caught on until he later published his findings?

Sounds interesting. Link?

Or in the case of the FBI and the Russian Embassy in D.C, you just buy the small house across the street. https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/fbi-spy-house

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