The power of plain
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Everyday Spy <everydayspy@email.everydayspy.com> Sun, Aug 4, 2024 at 2:00 PM
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Greetings Everyday Spy,
When I was at CIA, my peers and I spent a surprising amount of
time talking about clothes.
We weren’t comparing fashion or style. That's best left to trendy
magazines and bubbly people on TV screens. And we weren’t
testing tensile strength or tear resistance. That’s a topic for
engineers testing new military-grade field equipment.
Instead, our conversations focused on one topic:
What clothing was indigenous to the operating area?
Procuring local clothes is one of the most important (and difficult)
steps to being a field operator.
You wouldn’t think it, but being able to fully dress yourself in
indigenous clothing is complicated. For example, most of the
clothing in the Middle East and Southeast Asia is either
native/hand-made or bad knock-offs of major brands. If you walk
the street in genuine Levis or actual Nikes, you’re gonna stick out
like a sore thumb.
And that makes you a target for everyone from muggers to local
police.
If you are an American prepping in Frankfurt for a mission in Laos,
how do you get local hand-made Laotian footwear and socks
before you board the plane?
The best answer is classified… But the unclassified answer is that
you use guidebooks, YouTube videos, and people who have been
there to help understand what ‘plain’ dress looks like in your target
country. And then you dress like that.
As if getting the clothes wasn’t hard enough, the next challenge is
wearing the clothes correctly!
There are 8 different pieces in the typical Middle Eastern Kandora.
The Vietnamese Aobaba has 5 unique components.
Wearing just one part of the clothing wrong during a covert
operation is the equivalent of wearing a sign that says, ‘I do not
belong here!’
Your personal safety in everyday life is no different than a deep
cover officer’s operational security abroad.
If you plan to travel far from home, start planning your wardrobe
now. If you live in a rural area and wear sturdy, outdoor clothes –
get yourself a cheap hoodie, some second-hand jeans, and a comfy
pair of sneakers before you go into the city.
If you fancy yourself a trendy urbanite, invest in a pair of Dickies
slacks and a front-zip corduroy jacket before traveling through the
fly-over states.
Human threats like muggers, kidnappers, pick-pockets and con
men specifically target people who look out-of-place.
The first and easiest method to find a viable target is to look at
what they are wearing. To a bad guy, your Gucci purse (in eastern
Montana) or your John Deere cap (in Miami) mean the same thing…
‘I do not belong here!’
And once a bad guy starts to target you, it only gets harder to spot
their ‘tells…’
Godspeed, #EverydaySpy
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