12. An illegal is an intelligence officer or a recruited agent who operates in a foreign country in the guise of a private person, and is often present under false identity.
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13. A double agent is an agent engaged in clandestine activity for two or more intelligence services who provides information about one service to another.
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14. A dead drop is a prearranged hidden location used for the clandestine exchange of packages, messages, and payments, which avoids the necessity of an intelligence officer and an agent being present at the same time.
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15. A signal site is a prearranged fixed location, usually in a public place, on which an agent or intelligence officer can place a predetermined mark in order to alert the other to operational activity. Such a mark may be made by, for example, chalk or a piece of tape. The operational activity signaled may be the fact that a dead drop has been “loaded” and is ready to be “cleared.” A call-out signal may be used to trigger a contact between an agent and an intelligence officer.
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16. An accommodation address is a “safe” address, not overtly associated with intelligence activity, used by an agent to communicate with the intelligence service for whom he working.
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17. The FBI has documented the use by the KGB/SVR of agents-in-place, illegals, double agents, dead drops, signal sites, call-out signals, and accommodation addresses, including
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