CIA surveillance reaches almost every street corner in the world. It’s a 24-7 operation that depends on those who work in the shadows—experts at manipulation, sleuthing and dodging danger.
To find out if you have what it takes, step into the shoes of a CIA agent assigned to the Berlin field office. Your goal: Uncover the source of a data leak in the U.S. embassy’s security system. Test your spy skills as you attempt to rendezvous with a fellow spook and decode an encrypted message from an enemy agent.
Good luck, Agent.
CIA surveillance reaches almost every street corner in the world. It’s a 24-7 operation that depends on those who work in the shadows—experts at manipulation, sleuthing and dodging danger.
To find out if you have what it takes, step into the shoes of a CIA agent assigned to the Berlin field office. Your goal: Uncover the source of a data leak in the U.S. embassy’s security system. Test your spy skills as you attempt to rendezvous with a fellow spook and decode an encrypted message from an enemy agent.
Good luck, Agent.
Keep a separate phone for work only, and buy a ‘throwaway’ sim card for each call. With each new sim card, your track is clean again.
These favorites of drug dealers are dwindling in number and rarely run on coins anymore. And you run the risk the security service has a tap on it.
The stuff of fiction and amateurs, these are too public, can only be accessed with a key and are likely on security cameras.
Obscure locations work best, whether in plain sight or out in the woods. Files can also be shared electronically through peer networking in another discreet form of dead drop.
These are plentiful in cities, and by varying your route, you reduce the risk of being tailed.
Don’t rely on bureaucrats. If you send a message to the nearest CIA station, it might take three days for the desk officer to respond.
Resist the urge to help or talk to the child. Turn on your heel and leave, postponing until the coast is clear.
It’s safer to consider the child as a possible enemy agent, or, a potential witness.
And if you weren’t expecting a delivery, you should vacate the premises. Someone knows you are there.
Although the unexpected delivery could be an important part of your investigation, opening it, even with protective gear, could be too risky.
Hackers and spy software work insidiously in the background, usually without your knowledge.
There’s often no visual or functional indication that your phone or other smart device is being bugged.
Any tracking software not part of a secure network is subject to exposure, and could mean mission failure or even death.
Your goal is to appear as if you are living as normally as possible. Blending in with the crowd helps you avoid detection.
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Berlin Station premieres October 16th on EPIX at 9 P.M. ET/PT.