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Diplomacy's evil twin: same secrets, but nobody signed a treaty admitting it.
means The practice of secretly gathering information — especially political, military, or corporate secrets — that someone else really didn't want you to have.
from Borrowed from French 'espionnage', built from 'espion' meaning spy, which traces back further to a Germanic root related to 'spehon' — to watch or observe closely (a cousin of the English word 'spy' itself). The word slipped into English in the late 1700s, arriving with the slightly glamorous foreignness that espionage itself still trades on.
- oldest trick
- ancient sumerians wrote spy reports on clay tablets
- legal gray zone
- not technically illegal if your country does it
- best cover
- boring job titles beat trench coats every time
- cold war budget
- cia once spent millions training spy cats