BCC Turkey Greece Macedonia Serbia Bulgaria & Albania Spies & Lies Discussion
I’m working on a Political Science exercise and need support.
In a 400-word post, please discuss the following issues. Please be sure to indicate which is your country team and respond once to a classmate. You will be graded on your ability to discuss detail from your collection strategy and reflect on the consequences of the exercise for intelligence-gathering as well as bringing in the reading on deception.
1. Collection Strategy
- How many pieces of information did your group collect? (this is a key point and you must answer this question)
- How well did your group’s plan for collecting information work? Did your group’s strategy change? What was the most effective way to obtain information from other countries?
- How did your group use allies and neutral countries to collect information?
- What techniques did you use to get information from other countries?
2. Deception
Here you should bring in specific points from (Shulsky and Schmitt 2002, 116-127) and (Lowenthal 2020, 131-2) on HUMINT and (Lowenthal 2020, 95-96) on denial and deception.
- Was deception a part of your plan?
- Did the exercise encourage deception?
- How would the possibility of deception affect your analysis?
- What would need to be done to prevent deception and encourage quality analysis?
