tradecraft

IPA: trˈeɪdkræft

Examples of "tradecraft" in Sentences

Wearing the garments was a kind of tradecraft signal that she wanted sex.
The officials spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss what they called tradecraft, or agency procedures.
Intelligence officials also planned to give Balawi training in "tradecraft" and how to communicate Zawahiri's location back to his handlers.
I had been gadding around the country learning how to be totally inconspicuous and acquiring the rudiments of "tradecraft", as John le Carré would have called it.
The readers you quote who seem to have spent too much time learning their "tradecraft" from Hollywood are also ignoring the actual practicalities of such a device.
Committed to preserving national secrets, guns embedded in lipstick, maps hidden in decks of cards and other accoutrements of the spy trade (or, "tradecraft," as spies over here call it), you have to have the right passport.
Sloppy at "tradecraft," Ames left incriminating trash like typewriter ribbons from which FBI analysts could piece together messages to the KGB. Other moles: Now the CIA and KGB must try to compose a larger picture of the damage caused by Ames's betrayals.
The CIA has been criticized for allowing al-Balawi onto the base in Khost without being searched, a violation of security protocols in Afghanistan and also what in intelligence parlance is called "tradecraft," which holds that meetings with agents such as al-Balawi should be limited to one or perhaps two CIA officers and never held in agency stations or bases.