Covert Signals and the Business of Spying

EverydaySpy Podcast

Andrew Bustamante

Spy, Learning, Spies, Thinking, Human, Cia, Intelligence, Espionage, Education, Lifehack, Social Sciences, Advantage, Edge, Unfair, Science, How To, Humint, Secret, Growth, Business

4.7 • 640 Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2021

⏱️ 18 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Welcome to Season 5! The goal for this season is to start taking action on the skills we've mastered in the last 4 seasons. That means its time to talk about field tradecraft! And the best place to start studying tradecraft is with covert signals. In this episode, Andrew explains covert signals you've seen in movies and a few you've never heard of. You might be surprised to learn how many signals you aren't even aware you are missing...

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	My name is Andrew Bustamante, and this is everyday espionage.
0:07.0	Freedom! Freedom! Freedom.
0:23.7	Freedom. Freedom.
0:25.1	I am so excited to be kicking off season five.
0:31.7	And what I really want to focus on this season is taking what you have learned over the last four seasons and starting to put a more
0:38.9	fine tipped point on it. I want to start transitioning away from concepts and into more practical
0:45.9	application of what we in the field call tradecraft. Tradecraft are all those skills, all those
0:52.1	techniques that you learn over the course of your espionage training, and then applying them to actually execute and complete operations.
0:59.7	We did a little bit of this in season two, for those of you who have been with me for a while, but this season is my chance to kind of dig deeper.
1:07.6	We've had a lot of success over the last two years.
1:10.4	We've seen a lot of growth over the last two years. We've seen a lot of growth over the
1:11.9	last two years. And most importantly, CIA hasn't come in and shut me down yet. So the goal here is to
1:17.5	keep pushing the limits and see how far we can go, how much we can impact your life, how many changes
1:24.1	espionage can make in your everyday life, ideally, without CIA telling us that
1:29.2	we've gone too far. So for today, I want to start with a story about a recent client that I was
1:35.8	working with who is getting ready to sell a big ticket online product. Now, for those of you
1:41.1	who have never bought anything really expensive online, there are a number
1:44.9	of things you can buy online that are ridiculously expensive. I mean digital products, products that
1:49.7	don't ever get shipped to your house, things that are exclusively and wholly online. And my client
1:56.1	had a product that he was getting ready to release that cost $3,000 per unit, per digital online
2:03.3	unit. So he was getting ready to sell this $3,000 online product as part of his 100% digital
2:09.3	business. And if you've ever done digital business, then you know that business online really follows
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Andrew Bustamante, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Andrew Bustamante and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.