{"id":42371,"date":"2021-04-27T20:40:17","date_gmt":"2021-04-28T01:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.wordpress.com\/?p=42371"},"modified":"2021-04-27T20:40:17","modified_gmt":"2021-04-28T01:40:17","slug":"tradecraft-the-barium-meal-or-enema","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/27\/tradecraft-the-barium-meal-or-enema\/","title":{"rendered":"Tradecraft: The Barium Meal or Enema"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-42376\" src=\"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.files.wordpress.com\/2021\/04\/spy_699567733-scaled-1.jpg?w=620\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"412\" \/><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lander.odessa.ua\/doc\/Nigel-West-Historical-Dictionary-of-International-Intelligence.pdf\">BARIUM MEAL<\/a>: The technique of providing a suspect with a traceable item of information and then watching to monitor its progress in the hope of tracing it to an adversary is known as a barium meal after the medical procedure that allows physicians to follow the passage of mildly radioactive material through the body.<\/h2>\n<h2>Often used to find &#8220;leaks&#8221; in the espionage, counter-espionage and organized crime circles, this is where a false piece of attractive intelligence is given to a suspected traitor to see where it &#8220;comes out on the other side&#8221; This is where the enema saying comes from.<\/h2>\n<h2>During the Cold War this technique was used quite extensively to see how bad an agency or agent had been penetrated and\/or compromised. Very often it was insignificant and small pieces of false &#8220;treasure&#8221; that gave away traitors, ie small details that might be overlooked in a standard report.<\/h2>\n<h2>Stay Alert, Armed and Dangerous!<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BARIUM MEAL: The technique of providing a suspect with a traceable item of information and then watching to monitor its progress in the hope of tracing it to an adversary is known as a barium meal after the medical procedure that allows physicians to follow the passage of mildly radioactive material through the body. Often&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[13,2908,3986,3712,10],"tags":[9063,5345],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42371"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}