One leak prevention technique involved an intelligence trick he called "the old canary trap," in which he imperceptibly altered each document given to clients as a way to identify those who leaked a report.
A "mission specialist" and his young sidekick, Vollmer (one of DeLillo's comically intimidating nerds, like Heinrich in "White Noise"), are up in Tomahawk II, orbiting the earth and gathering intelligence, tricked out with their suction clogs, modal keys, sense frequencers, and quantum burns.
For example, Google's search and ad business and its experimental robot cars, which have navigated thousands of miles of California roads, both use a bundle of artificial-intelligence tricks.
Having reestablished the honor of the Red Army, Putin was immediately very popular, using all the intelligence agency tricks to further his popularity and advance his control.
Trophy hostages were released when Colombian intelligence agents tricked narco-guerrillas, and the resulting applause likely caused tensions to flare.
The story most damaging to the security forces, if true, is that when loyalist paramilitaries targeted Mr Scappaticci as a top IRA man, army intelligence agents tricked them instead into going after somebody else with an Italian name.
Once you've helped distort W.M.D. intelligence to trick the country into war, shouldn't you be banned for life from ever having another top-level government post concerning W.M.D.?
In a new perceived privacy breach, one developer managed to scrape up thousands of daters' photos so as to teach artificial intelligence some new tricks, and even shared his method for doing it with the world.
When it appeared that all hope was lost, Mowgli held firm and used his human intelligence and his "tricks" to save his own life, even as Shere Khan died a fiery death.
She was rescued by army intelligence agents who tricked her captors into believing they were acting on behalf of the FARC's leader.
She said the BNP's inner intelligence unit then "tricked" their way into her house when she was out, taking files and computer equipment.
