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means The specialized skills and techniques of intelligence work — surveillance, encryption, dead drops, source handling, and the hundred small disciplines of operating undetected.

from A straightforward compound of 'trade' (a skilled occupation) and 'craft' (skill in doing, as in 'woodcraft' or 'stagecraft'). It followed the pattern of older craft-words that name the specialized know-how of a profession, but it became firmly attached to espionage in the 20th century, as intelligence agencies and spy fiction alike adopted it for the practical arts of spying — how to shake a tail, run an agent, or pass a message unseen.