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Daniel Silva, the spy novelist, is as well known for his knowledge of international politics as for his knowledge of tradecraft.
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Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 21 Feb. 2025
Personnel are difficult to replace in intelligence given the unique nature of the job, with its specialized tradecraft, knowledge, and expertise.
—Peter Schroeder, Foreign Affairs, 17 Jan. 2025
Until these recent disclosures—comprising more than 3,000 individual files—observers could mostly just speculate about the goals, specific methods and tradecraft, and bureaucratic procedures driving contemporary Russian disinformation campaigns.
—Thomas Rid, Foreign Affairs, 30 Sep. 2024
The documents expose not just the outputs of disinformation campaigns but their inputs—the proposals, the internal assessments and evaluations, the tradecraft, the technological methods, the identity of the contractors running the projects, and the funders and politicians behind those contractors.
—Thomas Rid, Foreign Affairs, 30 Sep. 2024
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Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 21 Feb. 2025
Personnel are difficult to replace in intelligence given the unique nature of the job, with its specialized tradecraft, knowledge, and expertise.
—Peter Schroeder, Foreign Affairs, 17 Jan. 2025
Until these recent disclosures—comprising more than 3,000 individual files—observers could mostly just speculate about the goals, specific methods and tradecraft, and bureaucratic procedures driving contemporary Russian disinformation campaigns.
—Thomas Rid, Foreign Affairs, 30 Sep. 2024
The documents expose not just the outputs of disinformation campaigns but their inputs—the proposals, the internal assessments and evaluations, the tradecraft, the technological methods, the identity of the contractors running the projects, and the funders and politicians behind those contractors.
—Thomas Rid, Foreign Affairs, 30 Sep. 2024
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“Tradecraft.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tradecraft. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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