{"id":88438,"date":"2024-10-04T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-04T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=88438"},"modified":"2024-10-04T10:54:48","modified_gmt":"2024-10-04T15:54:48","slug":"annals-of-fieldcraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=88438","title":{"rendered":"Annals Of Fieldcraft"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We’ve recently seen evidence of the Israeli intelligence service’s (“Mossad”) skill in penetrating their enemies’ operations; from spectacular, “James Bond”-style coups like Operation Grim Beeper<\/a> to, incredibly, apparently penetrating the heart of Iran’s anti-Israel intelligence efforts up to senior leadership levels<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mossad has developed, over almost 80 years of fighting for Israel’s survival, an almost superhuman reputation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As with much of Mossad’s history, it’s an awe-inspiring display of what intelligence people call “fieldcraft – the nuts and bolts of running intelligence and clandestine unconventional warfare operations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But I’m going to suggest there’s a group whose fieldcraft makes Mossad look about as subtle as a P Diddy houseparty. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And they are (we are told) operating among us even as we speak. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Phantom Menace: <\/strong>We are told in one breath that American “white supremacists” are a mass of pasty, addled losers with sub-90 IQs, living in their parents basements, who live in their parents basements, stock shelves at Dollar General and have permanent Cheeto-dust stains on their fingers and the t-shirts that stretch to try to cover their obesity-stretched frames. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Indeed, some of the times they’ve come out into the open, they’ve seemed to fit that stereotype:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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