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 82 such deaths listed.

 

Office Holders on Wikispooks

Name	From	To	Boss	Deputy	Description
Sal Cincinelli	2011
Camilla Reksten-Monsen	2010				Liaison between Terje Rød-Larsen's think tank IPI and Jeffrey Epstein for almost ten years.
Edward Snowden	2006	2009
Erik van Sabben	2005	2009
Alexander Principalov	1997	1992
Annie Machon	August 1995	October 1996
Annie Machon	August 1993	August 1995
Gina Haspel	1990	1993
Richard Blee	May 1989	January 1991
Dino Bellasi	1988	1998
Richard Blee	September 1984	September 1986
Monte Overacre	1984	1992			During the very brutal CIA-led counterinsurgencies
Gust Avrakotos	1982	1988			Operation Cyclone
David Edger	August 1978	August 1978			Only known in August 1978
Dick Holm	1978	1981
Frederick Vreeland	1978	1985			Later placed as Director-General of Aspen Institute Italia
Vladimir Putin	1975	20 August 1991
John F. McCarthy	1975	1977			Dates approximate
David Edger	January 1973				During the 1973 Chile coup
Frederick Vreeland	1971	1978
Dick Holm	1970	1973
John Stockwell	1964	1976
Gust Avrakotos	1963	1978			Main liaison between the CIA and the military junta
Frederick Vreeland	1963	1967			Later US Ambassador to Morocco
Robert van Roijen Jr.	1961	1963
Duane Clarridge	1955	1991
John Collard	1953	1957
Rufus Youngblood	March 1951	1971			Protected LBJ during the JFK/Assassination
Frank Steele	1951	1975
Markus Wolf	1951	1986
David Doyle	1950	1952
Wilhelm Höttl	March 1948	1961
Raymond Leddy	1948	1961			Including as Chief of Office of Policy Coordination operations for Western Hemisphere
Lawrence de Neufville	1947	1954
Samuel Halpern	1947	1959
Nicholas Natsios	1947	1948
John Collard	1946	1952
Marion de Chastelain	November 1943	1945
A. J. Ayer	1943	1945
John Macgregor Bruce Lockhart	1942	1961
Charles Wheeler	1942	1947			Helped former Nazi military personnel escape the Soviet occupation zone
Malcolm Muggeridge	1942	1945
Paul Leverkuehn	1941	1944
A. J. Ayer	1941	1943
Isaiah Berlin	1940	1942
Paul Dickopf	1937	1944			Also Abwehr
Otto von Bolschwing	1934	1943
Samuel Hoare	March 1917	1918
Samuel Hoare	1916	1917

 

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	Nationality	Summary	Description
Abu Hamza Rabia	1960	30 November 2005

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