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 62 such deaths listed.

 

Office Holders on Wikispooks

Name	From	To	Description
Edward Snowden	2006	2009
Annie Machon	August 1995	October 1996
Annie Machon	August 1993	August 1995
Dino Bellasi	1988	1998
Frank Steele	1951	1975
Lawrence de Neufville	1947	1954
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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