Posted: 1/18/2010 7:00:47 PM EDT
Rules of Effective Conspiracy  Don't let the operation get too big. Be sure that nobody knows all of the players. Discourage unneeded communication between cells. Don't tell members anything that they don't absolutely need to know. Keep it simple. Work only with pure devotees. Don't draw attention. Be patient. Rules of Prey  Never kill anyone you know. Never have a motive. Never follow a discernible pattern. Never carry a weapon after it has been used. Isolate yourself from random discovery. Beware of leaving physical evidence. Rules of Frank  Never change the deal. No names. Never look in the package. Elsbeth Schragmüller's Dictums  German spymaster WW1 b1887-d1940 Collection of information: Never develop an idée fixé about some item of intelligence you think you can or must obtain. This will lead you into making yourself conspicuous by your inquiries. Collect every bit of information you can, but without showing special interest in any of it. How to record information: Always record the information you collect if you cannot absolutely trust your memory, but record it in terms of absolute innocence. Figures and dimensions you must report may best be remembered as items of personal expenditure. You have seen on a visit to Chantilly ten heavy naval guns on lorries, ready for mounting. You remember this item, however, as the excellent fish dinner you had in Chantilly which cost you ten Francs. Destroying evidence: If you burn a letter, do not believe you have made it unreadable and do nothing more about it. Microscopic examination can reveal writing or printing on ash. You must pound the ashes to fine powder and scatter it to the winds. Merely tearing up paper into small scraps is almost as dangerous as leaving it whole. Even putting small scraps down a lavatory is no real precaution. Such scraps must be thrown away in segments at different locations. Communication technique: Avoid any temptation to be too clever or original about methods of communication, unless you are quite sure that your invention is really new. Rely rather on proven methods. Foreign language use: Conceal whatever linguistic gifts you have so that others will be encouraged to talk more freely in foreign tongues you understand within earshot. Conduct: Never talk or behave mysteriously, there is only one circumstance in which you may do so; a person who really has something important to communicate and is half-ready to do so, can often be fully persuaded by being told something - preferably wholly fictitious - in a confiding way, with a slightly mysterious air, for he will be flattered by it. |
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Nice. "Conceal whatever linguistic gifts you have so that others will be encouraged to talk more freely in foreign tongues you understand within earshot." I follow that one almost daily. You're doing a great job of concealing your ability to play Metallica on a guitar...... 
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Rules of Effective Conspiracy
Destroying evidence: If you burn a letter, do not believe you have made it unreadable and do nothing more about it. Microscopic examination can reveal writing or printing on ash. You must pound the ashes to fine powder and scatter it to the winds. Merely tearing up paper into small scraps is almost as dangerous as leaving it whole. Even putting small scraps down a lavatory is no real precaution. Such scraps must be thrown away in segments at different locations. A guy I knew who worked at CCS told me of burning documents in the incinerator in baskets, then mixing the ashes in buckets of water and pouring them down storm drains. Sounds pretty damn thorough to me . . . |
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