Paper has one superior advantage compared to electronic applications.
Those who want to take the personal intelligence course should submit their application to the General Staff. Matt Tanner
The Defense Forces is looking for personnel for the personnel intelligence course. The course was announced with a bulletin, which caused a lot of discussion and wonder due to its mystery.
There is a reason for the secretiveness, say expert sources interviewed by Iltalehti. They do not appear in the story under their own names.
The mysterious letter C
The envelope delivered to the General Staff must have the symbol “C”. Juuso Taipale
Those who want to take the personnel intelligence course should send their applications to the General Staff in paper versions. This guarantees that those who apply for the course, get to it and possibly receive some kind of secret assignment, will not leave any kind of digital fingerprint.
A secret mission is based on the fact that the mission remains secret.
– These kinds of things can be easily solved with a single data breach, reminds the source interviewed by Iltalehti.
In addition to the address, only the identifier “C” must be entered in the applications submitted to the main staff. The marking is intended to make it clear that the letter will not be opened at the General Staff by anyone other than the person related to the personnel intelligence course.
– When mail arrives at a government agency, it becomes a document in the authority’s possession. If the application was processed according to the normal process, it would leave a digital fingerprint.
But why do you have to write “C” on the envelope? The reason is suspected to be an “insider trap” of the military intelligence.
– Once upon a time, the head of the British intelligence service signed all his letters with just the letter C. After that, it became customary to write “C” in letters addressed to the head of the intelligence service. Since then, the custom has been copied in other countries and has been used for a long time, a source reveals to Iltalehti.
The most secure post
An envelope with the letter C prominently drawn on it would seem to be an easy target for a breach of letter secrecy.
However, there is no better option. In addition, finding letters with the letter C in the volume of physical mail can be like looking for a needle in a haystack.
– I wouldn’t want to be in the shoes of the actor of a foreign power whose task is to try to find these letters at the post office.
– And even if someone found such a letter and opened it, they wouldn’t learn much from it. How can he know if the person in question has even been selected for the course, or in what role he might be used.
Ordinary people
We want ordinary people who live an ordinary life for the course. Illustration picture. Miia Sirén
Despite the secrecy, according to IL’s sources, it is not an unheard of phenomenon. People have been openly sought for personal intelligence courses in the past, both in Finland and abroad.
People are recruited for the course “as much as is deemed necessary”.
– When the network is operational, it still does not mean that everyone works 100% for the defense administration. Most of them are hardly ever used in any task, Iltalehte is told.
I am reminded of secrecy james bond mainen an agent who, using special equipment, uncovers the secrets of a foreign power.
The reality is more boring.
– Better yet, the participants in this course are infiltrators. The more ordinary they are and the more ordinary they behave, the better. The personal intelligence course wants to engage them in activities. If there is a need for them, they are available.
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