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Whistle blowers

When an employee discovers the company they work for is up to no good they may “blow the whistle” and reveal all to the press. In 1994, for example, American Jeff Wigand revealed that tobacco companies knew that cigarettes are addictive and include cancer-causing additives long before it became public knowledge.

Leaks

Sometimes secret information is released without authorization and without saying who let the secret out. In 1972, US president Richard Nixon’s involvement in the illegal break-in at the Democratic Party’s election headquarters in the Watergate office building was leaked to journalists by Mark Felt (who worked for the FBI—the US federal investigation agency—and went by the code name Deep Throat).

Websites with special security features are being developed for people to leak secret and sensitive documents from governments and organizations without getting caught. Some conspiracy theorists,however, think the sites could actually be fronts for government intelligence agencies.

Off-the-record

When politicians tell journalists something “off-the-record,” they do not want to be quoted. Sometimes the politicians are simply being friendly. More often, the idea is to influence the way journalists present things

without the public knowing they are doing it. Off-the-record briefings happen all the time, but they only come to light when something goes wrong and the politician’s name gets out.

Spin

Sometimes information and news stories are released at a particular time or in such a way that they influence the way the public reacts to things. This is called spin. The name comes from how a pitcher can give a ball spin so that it curves through the air in a way that confuses the batter. Government press officers are often criticized for using spin,

and the most notorious practitioners are called “spin doctors.” In some countries, the media is state-controlled and spins the news by reporting only stories that are favorable to the government.

Moles

A mole is a spy who “burrows” his or her way into an enemy country’s spy network or government to get secrets. A famous case took place at the height of the Cold War (a period during the 20^th century when relations between the US and western Europe and the communist countries of Russia and eastern Europe were particularly frosty). In 1965, Karel Koecher pretended to defect from (leave) communist Czechoslovakia to live in the US. A few years later he

joined the CIA (US foreign intelligence agency) and started feeding back spy secrets to the Russian equivalent, the KGB. Koecher got away with it for almost 20 years until he was found out.

Double agents

Spies who work for one country’s secret service while really working for an enemy in secret are known as double agents. In the 1930s, British student Guy Burgess was secretly recruited by the KGB while studying at Cambridge University. He then joined MI5, the British secret service, and passed on secrets to the KGB.

Sleepers

Sleeper agents enter a foreign country and try to blend in as ordinary people. At first they undertake no spying activities, but find jobs that will prove useful to them in the future. When the time is right—sometimes many years later—they are “activated” and begin their espionage activities.

Günter Guillaume was a sleeper agent for communist East Germany during the Cold War. He was sent to West Germany in 1956, where he got a job working for one of the political parties. He eventually became a close aide of the leader of West Germany, Chancellor Willy Brandt, and was able to send back top-secret information to the East

German secret service. Guillaume’s activities were uncovered in 1974. He was imprisoned, and Chancellor Brandt was forced to resign because of the scandal.

Undercover

Police and intelligence agencies often go undercover to infiltrate criminal gangs. The officers assume new identities, complete with fake ID documents and background stories. To keep their cover, they must sometimes take part in criminal activities themselves.