[Operation_Shock_N_Awe]

True story. How do you think we knew so much about the communist infiltration in the 30's 40's and 50's? Aside from informants; it was through infiltrators.

And if you aren't approachable, how is an informant going to be able to talk to you. If you act like an @sshole, you will feed into everything his fellow travelers told him about you.

Of course many found a "friend" in the agent; he spoke their speak and walked their walk.... now they'll speak his and hopefully get some 9/11 wantabes of the street..

[MadIsh32]

Exactly.

It happens with what we do in Afghanistan and Pakistan

People wonder why we were quickly able to move into Afghanistan right after 9/11. Literally on 9/12 we had intel on the ground working with assets we established during the 1980s

Throughout the 1990s the CIA wisely kept contacts and when 9/11 hit boom we were on the ground planning the counter attack

You think they walked around with pork and their “I hate Muslim” badges in the 1980s?