Spy on this note and find out how intelligence and secret agents are doing a little better than Alessio

In the fall of 2006, all those who wrote went to a northern province to take on a somewhat strange wording, armed with publishers retained by the government. So much so that at Government House, they knew up to the color of the tie chosen by the new director. A rather uncomfortable detail if the idea is to do journalism, this modest office with a good press that has been working for 18 years. In this hostile environment, oh surprise, a jewel has popped up. A Fuoriclbade.

"I can see that Fulanito is Service, an intelligence horn," whispered a well-known colleague as soon as I entered the newsroom. You could see it ten kilometers away.

Careful, indefatigable buyer, the virgin chronicler (now called Fulanito) always had outstanding proposals to offer. After bouncing a hundred times, he won by fatigue and got his prize, a story to an official friend of the second line. Two days later, he arrived with his Opus 1. It was very impressive.

The entire text was written in capital letters, an aesthetic weakness of the old agents. With one peculiarity: he had written it as a criminal record or something like that. "BEFORE THE QUESTION AS TO WHAT SHOULD BE THE BEST POLICY TO FACE THE CRISIS, THE PHYSICIAN RESPONDED THAT HIS IDEA WAS."

Two official pages typed. An unprintable relic that has taken a place in my personal archives of eccentricities.

Fulanito replied, pathetically, to rol physics old moles. The grays, whose lives were shared between endless guards, tracking goals, listening to the phones and listening to the secret tables at the Florida Garden in the 80s, where the best of the best to inject exclusive data on powerful people, focusing on their business and their bad life. The Turkish Assise, a regular, has talked a lot about industry insiders in his novel Intelligence pieces, written in 1987.

Bureaucrats and mythomaniacs, they were grocers under a magnifying glbad who offered theirs in this bizarre fair: meat and fish fit for consumption, or rotten meat and fish. Nobody was sure. They did not have the style British James Bond or John Steed and Emma Peel. Not here.

Times have changed and technology has completely renewed the style of spies. The stellar eruption of the unspeakable Marcelo D'Alessio renewed interest for those who work in the shade, whether it is organic agents (with a map) or inorganic (technically they do not exist) , and if they fall, no one knows them).

Technology has greatly simplified the work of espionage craftsmen and left many on the street. Very sophisticated systems have emerged to obtain information. Among them, the star is the Pegasus system. Developed by the NSO group, it caused two years ago a scandal of espionage against Mexican journalists and politicians. As it happened, our government has also acquired the sympathy system.

Pegasus can access phone conversations, private messages, images, videos, and social media. You can also record chats with the device turned off.

How it works? From an innocent, click on any link. This activates the automatic installation of the program which, from that moment, will access without the victim knowing the camera and microphone of the mobile phone. "Once infected, it's virtually impossible to escape malware," says John-Scott Railton, a researcher at the University of Toronto's Citizen Lab. "The phone becomes a spy in your pocket".

Then? New Time No more hours of guarding, more life hanging from balconies to install questionable cameras, more directional pickups like the one that he used Gene Hackman in The conversation, (filmed by Francis Ford Coppola and created in 1974), to capture the conversations of others on the squares. Your character, the spy Harry Caulhe ends up being spied on and in the last scene he destroys his apartment in search of a microphone. He ends up going crazy, alienated, playing his sax in a clbadic bebop disco.

What are the intelligence agents? What are you doing Who do they work for? Is there a direct relationship between the word Intelligence and the idea of ​​intelligence as a virtue?

The etymology tells us that the word comes from Latin intelligentia, which in turn derives from intelligere, a compound word: intus (between and legere (to choose) Someone is smart, so, if he is able to choose the best option out of all, solve a problem.

You see, D'Alessio was smart to achieve the goals that "someone" had ordered him and, by the way, charge a few innings. But he was not smart to avoid being recorded and photographed by one of his "clients" extortion at the criolla. Bad, there.

Spies, intelligence, exist since the world is the world. Sun Tzú, a famous Chinese military strategist in the service of King Helü of Wu, who lived four centuries before Christ and wrote the ultra-city The art of warhe devoted an entire chapter to espionage. "The previous information can not be obtained from spirits, divinities, past events or calculations, they are obtained by secret agents, stealthy men who know or discover the situation of the enemy. Enemy, "he writes.

Sun Tzú also highlights the virtues of the good spy: "They must be intelligent but stupid, intrepid but harmless in appearance; agile, daring and courageous men who can do odd jobs and be able to resist hunger, cold, dirt and humiliation. "

Does our spy respect these premises? Super star? Is Alessio really anybody from "smart but stupid"? Do you know how to do "humble works"? Would he be able to resist the cold, the hunger, the dirt and the humiliation? "Mmm …

To begin, Dr. Alessio violates an essential requirement for any DEA, CIA, AFI or DRF officer: discretion. The boy is an incontinent, a mouthful of textbook and has a vanity as big as a world. Wrong. Nothing worse for a spy than exposure.

And there we see Marcelito. All over. Renting the taser pistols bought by the minister Patricia Bullrich on television, giving lectures on drug trafficking, signing dozens of photographic notes in major Argentine newspapers, chichoneando Jorge Corona to a beautiful columnist in the pits before playing, with the nickname Patán, a race of TC Pista Mouras in 2013.

The tactic of extortion Pedro Etchebest to make him talk about more was simple and very effective: caress the ego. Simulated to be fascinated by the enormous spying power spied on, he boasted that each compliment caused a new tsunami of data, names, operations, agreed notes, tightening of power, prosecution provisions, schedule , private life. A monster, the guy.

But are there famous spies? Yes, which is paradoxical, because we have already stressed that the first condition of a good professional is to know to be invisible. There are several examples, with a different chance:

-Margaretha Geertruida Zelle, a Dutch exotic dancer better known as Mata Hari, who was a German spy during the First World War but was discovered in Paris by French forces who accused her of spying and treason. They shot him on October 15, 1917. His myth has more to do with his scandalous style for the time than his talent for poking.

-María Estela Martínez, then Isabel Perón, is a little known case of spy with little virtue. Both his biographer, the researcher María Sáenz Quesadaas historian Felipe Pigna, confirmed that the former president was part of a ballet prepared by spies of the Argentine dictatorship to obtain information about Perón. However, when the future Isabelita contacted the general, she decided to leave.. Did Peron know that the seductive dancer had come to spy on him? It seems so. But he decided to continue with her. Because? According to Andrés López and Ramón Landajo, collaborators of Perón in this exile, Perón laughed, indifferent, because "this girl is not even used to spy". Who knows. Another theory is that it has been used by Perón to send false information, which seems much more believable. Finally, love has triumphed.

But back to today. Why Elisa María Avelina Carrió, old contact very laid back Marcelo D'Alessio, now wants to demolish until the last brick of the AFI, ex SIDE, the charming little house of spies? Are you angry, disappointed or with a serious panic attack? In the case of our histrionic lighthouse of the Republic, you never know.

Are all intelligence services bad? Not at all. All the sovereign countries need them, as long as they work (it seems obvious, but if you review the recent history), in favor of the country, that is to say of its population. It seems easy. This is not it.

May 6, 2016, by Order in Council 656, President Macri repealed Decree 1311/15 signed a year earlier by former President Kirchner, which allowed the public to access information on the use of funds managed by the company. ; AFIexcept those for specific intelligence work which, in any case, must be recorded, along with the documentation that will support them. What happened?

In December 2014, in the midst of the cold war against Creole, Jaime StiusoThe historic leader of the spies since the dictatorship, he accepted a story and made the cover of a magazine. Too much. Cristina Kirchner decided to kick him out. This dismissal meant that Nisman, who had received all the information relating to the AMIA case, but very nervously, in the hands of the spy and almost a friend, was afraid to follow the same path.

With Macri, the funds were reserved again and they continue to be at least until this surprising order of demolition, demanded by the explosive (said without irony) Deputy Carrió.

With a sufficient budget and without being accountable, the AFI Gustavo Arribas (The friend "more piola and cheat than I have," word of Macri), launched a renewal process by recruiting young people under 30 in different universities. All very discreet and formal.

Once contacted, candidates had to take a previous course. There, they annotate non-negotiable terms: a) They will receive a false identity. b) In the course of their work, they can give false information to their relatives. c) Everyone will be responsible for spying on a partner. d) Everyone, in turn, will be spied on. e) No one will know who is following in his footsteps.

At least in June 2018, with the dollar at 25, they offered an initial salary of 30,000 pesos, all registered as Conicet Fellows. As long as they pbad the physical, psychological and cognitive test. Everyone does not become a D'Alessio, young national espionage entrepreneurs!

Another detail If there is any information (get information that you do not have), there is also counterintelligence, the art of preventing someone from obtaining data that should remain secret.

In the archives of the feverish computer of D & # 39; Alessio ", explained Judge Ramos Padilla in Congress," a file called Operation jaitt, where there is talk of counterintelligence work in the Mirtha Legrand program on March 31 of last year. In front of the cameras, Natasha Jaitt, absorbed by a sudden moral crusade, and coucheada by a former AFI agent, returned to the fan and accused several pedophiles.

He explained that he had made these denunciations "for boys" and that he had "investigated" on behalf of a "company". Wowwhat an exotic bouquet. Go someone to find out what situation this "business" will be in today.but with these astronomical interest rates, could be on the verge of lowering the blind.

It seems like everything has to do with everything.

And what is it still necessary to know?

Know it, compatriots: we are alive by miracle.