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• n  skill acquired through experience in a trade; often used to discuss skill in espionage
  instructional designers are trained in something that might be called tradecraft
  the CIA chief of station accepted responsibility for his agents' failures of tradecraft

• Intelligence officers were hostile to the concept of information sharing; each agency had its own procedures for tradecraft, hiring, promotion and discipline.
• The commission declined to elaborate, but senior counterterrorism officials tell PTI the fraud was an example of al-Qaeda's clever tradecraft and attention to detail.
• We're also working hard to better validate our sources and improve our tradecraft.

News & Articles

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• InTTENSITY Corporation Launches New Website and Unveils New SOCINT™ Practice
  New InTTENSITY website to feature social media and big data analytics products and discuss new analytic tradecraft called SOCINT™ (PRWeb June 27, 2013) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/6/prweb10875596.htm
  June 27, 2013 - PRWeb

Quotes

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• Yuri Shvets in This is London
  Mr Shvets says: "I cannot really be 100% sure, but I am pretty sure. Obviously there is always room for other suspicions, but in a tradecraft there is such a thing as most probable theory, and this is the one."
• Michael Hayden in Washington Post
  As a seasoned operations officer, Mike earned a reputation for superior tradecraft and sound judgment,Hayden said. "He speaks his mind and our rapport was immediate."
• Randy Scheunemann in The Public Record
  The messy business of back-alley tradecraft has taken a back seat to the much simpler business of 'liaison' with foreign intelligence services,Scheunemann told Gertz, adding that he would radically change that approach if and when he returns...