Practical Advices going to Italy – from Intelligence Officers to Intelligence Officers Cover Image

Praktikus tanácsok Olaszországba készülőknek – operatív tisztektől operatív tiszteknek…
Practical Advices going to Italy – from Intelligence Officers to Intelligence Officers

Author(s): Gábor Andreides
Subject(s): Diplomatic history, Political history, Security and defense, Post-War period (1950 - 1989)
Published by: Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem, Új-és Jelenkori Egyetemes Történeti Tanszék
Keywords: intelligence; intelligence station; Italy; Hungary; advice and experience; Rome; Budapest; psychology; state security;

Summary/Abstract: Even the most thorough theoretical, general and specific preparation will lose its effectiveness if, in practice, the intelligence officer can not use the lessons learned in the field. If the person assigned to the external service finds it hard to get acquainted with the routine of a foreign service or, more importantly: slowly and circumstantially adapt to the routine of the everyday life of the new service. Because it was useful, if he got a go-od knowledge of the everyday life of the host country, and in even those cases he had to act well when the traffic cop was occasionally fined him. This was then particularly true, if the intelligence agent occasionally went into such a – nearby – country, which - as regards its habits - was differing from Hungary significantly, like Italy, which was becoming on top of it all more increasingly important for the Hungarian politics. The present study is based on a detailed „psychologist" summary formulated in an unusual style, which attempts to illustrate the fact that, with several years of fo-reign service experience, the operational officer couple code-named „Büki”, what has been considered important in the training, preparation and practical knowledge of so-called observing staff.

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 7-28
  • Page Count: 22
  • Language: Hungarian