Second oldest profession

U.S. Spies • U.S. Spies: Understanding the World’s Second Oldest Profession • • I’m often asked what I do and I feel obligated to respond, “I could tell you, but then I’d have to kill you.” When people mention intelligence professionals, they always seem to be describing CIA Agents for some reason. However, it just so happens that I carry a silenced weapon with me daily, but only in an expensive, tailored suit while driving my Aston Martin. The list of pop culture references goes on. Not surprisingly, many people have misunderstandings regarding intelligence organizations or the Intelligence Community (referred to as the “IC”). The purpose of this article is to clarify some of these misconceptions and to briefly discuss what intelligence support at the national and tactical levels entail, by providing a framework of understanding. The information contained here will by no means be all-encompassing and only scratches the surface of what the IC is capable of. We’ll also discuss operations and the notion of intelligence organizations as a whole without violating any OPSEC. Intelligence vs. Information In this article, the terms intelligence and information will be used almost interchangeably, although there’s a critical distinction. Here’s the critical concept: all intelligence is information, but not all information is intelligence. Meaning, that if it hasn’t been analyzed, processed, or exploited in some form, information is not intelligence. That’s the function of intellig...

Phillip Knightley was a special correspondent for The Sunday Times for 20 years (1965-85) and one of the leaders of its Insight investigative team. He was twice named Journalist of the Year (1980 and 1988) in the British Press Awards. He and John Pilger are the only journalists ever to have won it twice. He was also Granada Reporter of the Year (1980), Colour Magazine Writer of the Year (1982), holder of the Chef and Brewer Crime Writer’s award (1983), and the Overseas Press Club of America award for the best book on foreign affairs in 1975 (The First Casualty). He has lectured on journalism, law, and war at the National Press Club, Canberra, ACT; the Senate, Canberra, ACT; City University, London; Manchester University, Queen Elizabeth College Oxford, Penn State, UCLA, Stanford University, California; the Inner Temple, the International Committee of the Red Cross, and at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst. He is a patron of the C.W. Bean Foundation, Canberra ACT. His two main professional interests have been war reporting and propaganda and espionage. In more than 30 years of writing about espionage he has met most of the spy chiefs of most of the major intelligence services in the world. He dined with Sir Maurice Oldfireld, head of MI6. He lunched with Sir Dick White, head of MI5 and MI6. He corresponded with both. He lunched with Harry Rositzke, head of the CIA’s Soviet bloc division. He lunched with Lyman Kirkpatrick, the CIA’s Inspector-General. He dined with Leoni...

When the ad industry is in a self-deprecating mood, it sees itself not unlike the flesh trade, where every client is like a john to be pleased without prejudice. Hence, the “second oldest profession” is its cheesy alias. There is even a joke that asks: What is the difference between the world’s oldest and second oldest profession? The answer is that the former is recession-proof, while the latter isn’t. There’s no business more inclined to unravel at the mere mention of the “R” word. So it will try to deny, deny, deny. Shush, R is a dirty nine-letter word. Paranoia is a natural state in a business that historically is one of the first items eliminated from the client’s budget when the economy is on a downtrend. So there is reason to be anxious. But last month in the US, after Wall Street, Main Street, and the auto industry, the porn industry was seriously asking for a bailout plan from the government. On the other hand, at last week’s Super Bowl, a slew of clever, entertaining, multi-million ads that were as anticipated as the game itself overflowed, just like in the good old days. So should the gag have reversed the latter and the former? Not really. Because although it seemed like the Super Bowl was impervious to budget cuts, it is neither an accurate predictor nor a financial indicator of the future of advertising. The Super Bowl is a sociological, if not psychological, phenomenon unto itself. When else does one get the permission to escape from the grim realities of mo...

by Garrett Coulson, Contributing Writer, One fine morning in May, just before dawn, when I was ten, my Aunt Aurora took me up to the top of Dead Horse Butte, and told me I was now at the age when young shamans need to learn about Metaphysics. “I think,” she said, “we’ll start with the world’s second oldest profession.” She’d brought with her an apple pie sliced into twelve sections. “There are twelve signs in the zodiac,” she said. “Well, that’s not actually true. There are actually thirteen. But we’ll get into all that later. After we talk about Pisces. “ Each of the slices had a number etched into it from one to twelve. She pointed to the slice with the number twelve on it. “The section of thirty degrees above the eastern horizon is the 12th house. The section of thirty degrees below the horizon is the 1st house. And right where the horizon is, that’s the ascendant. That first house below it, whatever sign it happens to b e – right now it happens to be Taurus – that’s called the rising sign. The rising sign changes every two hours. Any questions?” “What’s the world’s oldest profession?” I said. “We’ll discuss that,” she said, “when we get to the sign of Scorpio.” Right about that time, the sun peeked over the horizon. Taurus rising, sun on the ascendant. And so my metaphysical education had begun. Every day, after my home-schooling in Metaphysics was finished, my Aunt Aurora would turn on the small black and white TV we had in the trailer we lived in, and watch a show ca...

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Intelligence, Military and Political. Intelligence is often referred to as the “second oldest profession,” but for the The term intelligence, as used here, means two significant functions, one large and one small. The large function is the collection, analysis, and dissemination of relevant national security information. The smaller function is covert activities—a broad range of actions intended to influence events overseas with the role of the Prehistory: The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. The founders were not unaware of the uses and practice of intelligence. The European state system of which they had been an imperial appendage had a long history of secret agents and spies by the time the The As with much else, President Washington established important precedents for U.S. intelligence. At his request, Congress supported what became known as the Secret Service Fund, which at one point amounted to 12 percent of the federal budget. Presidents had to certify the amounts they spent, but did not have to state the purposes, which were widely acknowledged to be intelligence‐related. During the nineteenth century, what little U.S. intelligence activity occurred largely meant wartime tactical reconnaissance. Intelligence played little role beyond that during the The first U.S. military attaché—an officer accredited abroad to collect information overtly—was a naval officer posted overseas in 1872. The first standing U.S. intelligence components were created in the 1880s: th...