Espionage

However, spies are not considered with common or uncommon criminals. They are neither sinners nor international lawbreakers. If spies are caught they are either send back to their country, sent to jail or used as counterespionage (double agents).
             Espionage involves the recruiting of agents in local and foreign nations. Agents are encourage to have the ability of possessing information, using audio surveillance as well as the use of modern photography, sensing and other techniques and technology to gather secret information. Surveillance with high technology equipment on the ground or from high-altitude planes and satellites has become an important espionage technique.
             The Qualities of a Spy.
             Agents are trained to have the ability of spying - the first objective is to have some sort of desired information, which requires knowing where the information is located and who can obtain it. The information can be obtained or available in a foreign newspaper, radio broadcast, or it can also be obtained by technological electronic messages encrypted in a code or by placing an agent in an area to retrieve the information. Once the information is gathered the decision is chosen how the information is supplied and how it is an advantage to them.
             Today, intelligence organization recruited agents in three sources:.
             First, is from the Universities, where students are recruited and are required and trained for intelligence careers. .
             Second, are the armed services and the police forces, where some degree of intelligence skill is already known. .
             Thirdly, agents are gathered from the underground world of espionage, which include, mastermind criminals, informers, computer hackers with an appropriate experience. .
             During World War I, many of the great powers except the United States had a civilian espionage system to protect them from foreign nations. As a result in 1917 the U.S. congress passed the Espionage Statute.