Spook

Used on Wikispooks as a colloquial term for spy but with wider connotations encompassing people whose primary occupation may be in any area of industry, commerce, politics, the media etc., but who also acts as an agent/informant of the secret intelligence agencies or the security services generally.

Spook
Type	job
Interest of	• Rupert Allason • William Corson • Executive Intelligence Review • Ronald Kessler • Powerbase • David Teacher
Subpage(s)	•Spook/Premature deaths
Spook - Used on Wikispooks as a colloquial term for spy but with wider connotations encompassing people whose primary occupation may be in any area of industry, commerce, politics, the media etc., but who also acts as an agent/informant of the secret intelligence agencies or the security services generally.

Spook is used on this website to mean (approximately) "spy", they employ spycraft.

In the 21^st century, spooks are increasingly heading through the revolving door to work for large companies, particularly in the financial and "private security" sectors.

Premature deaths

Full article: Spook/Premature deaths

Premature death is an occupational hazard of being a spook. Wikispooks currently has 69 such deaths listed.

 

Office Holders on Wikispooks

Name	From	To	Description
Sal Cincinelli	2011
Edward Snowden	2006	2009
Erik van Sabben	2005	2009
Alexander Principalov	1997	1992
Annie Machon	August 1995	October 1996
Annie Machon	August 1993	August 1995
Dino Bellasi	1988	1998
Monte Overacre	1984	1992	During the very brutal CIA-led counterinsurgencies
Dick Holm	1978	1981
Vladimir Putin	1975	20 August 1991
Dick Holm	1970	1973
John Stockwell	1964	1976
Robert van Roijen Jr.	1961	1963
John Collard	1953	1957
Rufus Youngblood	March 1951	1971	Protected LBJ during the JFK/Assassination
Markus Wolf	1951	1986
Frank Steele	1951	1975
Wilhelm Höttl	March 1948	1961
Raymond Leddy	1948	1961	Including as Chief of Office of Policy Coordination operations for Western Hemisphere
Lawrence de Neufville	1947	1954
John Collard	1946	1952
Marion de Chastelain	November 1943	1945
A.J. Ayer	1943	1945
Charles Wheeler	1942	1947	Helped former Nazi military personnel escape the Soviet occupation zone
A.J. Ayer	1941	1943
Isaiah Berlin	1940	1942
Paul Dickopf	1937	1944	Also Abwehr

 

Related Quotation

Page	Quote	Author	Date
Plausible deniability	“Intelligence officers try very hard not to get their hands dirty.”	Scott Noble	7 July 2014

 

An official example

Name	Born	Died
Abu Hamza Rabia	1960	30 November 2005

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