The KGB service for this was Line X, which reported to Directorate T of the KGB First Chief Directorate.The GRU ran recruitments at industry trade shows. Recruiting Through Business RelationshipsĪs part of Technical intelligence gathering, key business personnel, or even a business itself, might be recruited. “Quite a few examples are known of recruitment at the first meeting, of course following the secret cultivation which has gone on for many months”. Suvorov describes the “crash approach” as the most demanding form of recruitment, which is to be done only if the local rezident, or chief of the GRU unit, convinces GRU headquarters that the risk is worthwhile. Certain employees, such as guards and janitors, who have no formal access, still may be able to gain access to secured rooms and containers there is a blurry area between an access agent that might let your collector into an area, and a support employee who can collect information that he may or may not understand. Within private and public organizations that handle sensitive material, human resource workers, receptionists, and other seemingly low-level personnel know a great deal about the people with sensitive access.

Such a person could be as simple as the barber outside a military base, or as complex as a think tank or academic expert who deals regularly with government personnel with access to sensitive material. An access agent does not have significant access to material of intelligence value, but has contact with those who do.

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