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Recent Examples of tradecraft
Experimenting in Prague and then in Berlin, Mr. Smith helped broaden the tradecraft of modern espionage, pioneering simple but effective techniques that CIA officers could use to evade detection in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union.
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Harrison Smith, Washington Post, 26 June 2024
The Pentagon’s audit concluded that the military’s primary contractor handling the campaign, General Dynamics IT, had employed sloppy tradecraft, taking inadequate steps to hide the origin of the fake accounts, said a person with direct knowledge of the review.
—Chris Bing and Joel Shectman, USA TODAY, 14 June 2024
Our intelligence and counterterrorism classes, for example, include practical training in professional tradecraft.
—Foreign Affairs, 29 Sep. 2023
But our journalist heroes are on a mission, mercenaries of their tradecraft.
—Katie Walsh, Twin Cities, 11 Apr. 2024
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Harrison Smith, Washington Post, 26 June 2024
The Pentagon’s audit concluded that the military’s primary contractor handling the campaign, General Dynamics IT, had employed sloppy tradecraft, taking inadequate steps to hide the origin of the fake accounts, said a person with direct knowledge of the review.
—Chris Bing and Joel Shectman, USA TODAY, 14 June 2024
Our intelligence and counterterrorism classes, for example, include practical training in professional tradecraft.
—Foreign Affairs, 29 Sep. 2023
But our journalist heroes are on a mission, mercenaries of their tradecraft.
—Katie Walsh, Twin Cities, 11 Apr. 2024
See all Example Sentences for tradecraft
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tradecraft
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The theft of some data sets could, for instance, aid Chinese intelligence and counterintelligence operations.—
Adam Segal,
Foreign Affairs,
21 Jan. 2025
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Memos authored by House Republicans and Democrats, which have been declassified, showed that information about Papadopoulos’ contacts with Russian intermediaries triggered the FBI’s counterintelligence investigation in July 2016 of potential coordination between Russia and the Trump campaign.—
Kori Rumore,
Chicago Tribune,
17 Jan. 2025
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China’s recent expansion of its counterespionage law to cover a much wider array of information, coupled with raids on some advisory firms and a pickup in exit bans on foreigners, has made the business environment more uncertain.—
Jami Miscik,
Foreign Affairs,
24 May 2023
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After the 9/11 attacks and the rise of Islamist terrorism, ASIO ran down its counterespionage capabilities in favor of counterterrorism.—
Clive Hamilton,
Foreign Affairs,
26 July 2018
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Forthcoming votes for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Tulsi Gabbard, Trump’s respective nominees to serve as health and human services secretary and the director of national intelligence, are expected to be similarly partisan.—
Ashley Oliver,
Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government,
5 Feb. 2025
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The Senate Intelligence Committee voted to advance the nomination of former Representative Tulsi Gabbard, Trump's pick for director of national intelligence, to the full Senate, on Tuesday.—
Anders Fogh Rasmussen,
Newsweek,
5 Feb. 2025
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“Tradecraft.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tradecraft. Accessed 10 Feb. 2025.
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