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Industrial & governmental espionage quiz

1. Providing valuable information to build up yourdouble agents is.a. Never justifiedb. Justified only when there is long term prospect of real benefitc. An example ofRussian tradecraft, not Western tradecraft

2. Use of polygraph outside of the US depends on recognition of cultural differences because aperson who is not a product Western culture will react differently to questions.

a. Trueb. False

3. The __?__ was a spy organization created by Benjamin Tallmadge under the orders of GeorgeWashington in1778?

a. Cambridge Fiveb. Culper Ringc. Dave Clark Five

4. A code is a rule for converting a piece of information (a word or number) into another form orrepresentation (such as a sign or symbol).

a. Trueb. False

5. Russias deployment ofits trawler fleet into the sea lanes of the Western powers is an exampleofoperational cover.

a. Trueb. False

6. Which are causes of intelligence failures?a. Subordination of intelligence to policyb. Not having necessary informationc. Mirror imagingd. All of the above

7. __?__refers to breaking of enemy codes and ciphers.a. Steganographyb. Cryptanalysisc. Cartographyd. Crateology

8. If you have a Top Secret security clearance, you have automatic access to all Top Secret.Material.

a. Trueb. False

9. There are two types of polygraph exams; one relates to life style and the other relates tomatters about job performance.

a. Trueb. False


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10.Which counter intelligence specialist was the first to determine that Kim Philby was a Sovietspy?

a. James J. Angletonb. William King Harveyc. George Blake

11.The most important use of double agentsa. is to keep in contact with the enemyb. is to steal money to support their spy networkc. recruit spies through the universities

12.Pyotr Semyonovich Popova. Was the first US penetration of the GRUb. Hated the communists because they took his family taken away because they resisted

collectivization

c. Was exposed when the FBI made mistakes in conducting surveillance of a Soviet agentfor whom Popov was the handler

d. All of the above13.Klaus Fuchs

a. fled Germany for England after Nazi takeoverb. Contacted Soviet espionage through British communist partyc. served 9 years in UK prison & then went to GDRd. all of the above

14.The Soviet spy Rudolf Abel wasa. Born in Russia and came to the US as a deep cover spy b. An American citizen who was recruited to spy through the US Communist Partyc. born in Great Britain but was a German national & was drafted into Soviet Army in 1925d. a graduate of Cambridge University & worked with Kim Philby

15.Who was an American courier for the Soviets who defected and confessed to the FBI in 1945?a. Igor Gouzenkob. William W. Weisbandc. Harry Dexter Whited. Elizabeth Bentley

16.The Venona program wasa. Developed by the CIA in 1949b. Initiated during the Kennedy Administration (1961-1963)c. started by the US Army Signal Intelligence Service in 1943

17.What kind of concealment device (CD) has obvious function that can be performed while it alsohas an internal cavity for hiding clandestine equipment?

a. Passive CDb. Active CDc. both

18.The CIAs concealment program is run by which department?a. Furnishings and Equipment Division


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b. Office of Information Resourcesc. Technical Services Department

19.Which single factor most contributed to Oleg Penkovskys exposure as a Western spy? a. His tendency to brag about his workb. His extravagant life style because of the CIA payments to himc. He was caught taking secret documents out of the Kremlind. Difficulties in getting secret documents to his CIA & British handlers

20.Which Soviet organization was restructured because of the Penkovsky affair and saw itsdirector, I.A. Serov, removed because of Penkovskys espionage work?

a. Central Committee of the Communist Party of the USSRb. GRUc. KGBd. Politburo of the Communist Party of the USSR

21.Which World War Two organization combined espionage with combat operations?a. British Special Operations Executiveb. British Secret Intelligence Servicec. US Office of Strategic Services

22.Which individual was the primary leader of the CIAs Berlin tunnel of 1955-56?a. Peter Lunnb. George Blakec. Reinhard Gehlend. William King Harvey

23.Which was the target of the CIAs Berlin tunnel of 1955 -56?a. Telephone cables used by the Soviet Armyb. Telephone cables used by the KGBc. Telephone cables used by the East German government & military

24.Political espionage is thought to have first been used systematically by.a. Julius Caesarb. Joseph Fouche, minister of police during the French Revolutionc. The Apostle Pauld. The Austrian statesman Prince von Metternich

25. In ancient Rome, Supply sergeants known as ___?____ became intelligence officers.a. Senatorsb. Diplomatsc. frumentarii

26.Espionage played important role in Rome's becoming an empire.a. Trueb. False

27.The main goal of security program is optimizing not minimizing risk.a. Optimizing risk b. minimizing risk

28.After 11 September there were reports about computer virus calledNimda which had beencreated by terrorists.


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a. True b. false29.People have a greater fear of disasters which

a. Are caused by natural conditions such as weatherb. Are caused by accidentsc. result from deliberate human intervention

30.Much industrial espionage is not reported becausea. Victims fear that court testimony will cause further exposure of trade secretsb. Corporations are insured against lossc. Corporations simply raise prices to cover the loss

31.There are more spies in the US today than during the Cold War.a. trueb. false

32.Which is an example of a foreign technology transfer that undermined the national power ofChina?

a. Britains development of the tobacco industry in the American coloniesb. When Samuel Slater opened a mill using water-powered machinery for spinning and

carding cotton

c. Persian monks smuggled silk worms out of China33.Espionage agents first try to compromise individuals.

a. by providing them with an educationb. by exploiting human weaknessesc. by following them.

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