{"id":48,"date":"2026-01-11T07:43:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T12:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/?p=48"},"modified":"2025-12-07T20:56:35","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T01:56:35","slug":"mice-rc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/?p=48","title":{"rendered":"MICE\/RC"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Agents, how do we get the information we want from the sources who have access to it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Classic intelligence theory references MICE &#8211; Money, Intelligence, Conscience, and Ego. A while ago, I recorded this variant in my <em>Spycraft<\/em> notes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>M<\/strong>aterial &#8211; we have a tangible thing they want (money, coke, hookers).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>I<\/strong>deology &#8211; their beliefs are congruent with ours and they <em>want<\/em> to help us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>C<\/strong>ompromise &#8211; we find an existing fear (i.e., a secret whose exposure is feared) and leverage it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>E<\/strong>go &#8211; we reinforce (or challenge) their self-worth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>R<\/strong>evenge &#8211; we facilitate their need to get back at someone who wronged them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>C<\/strong>oercion &#8211; we create a new fear (make them afraid of us, usually) and leverage it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Agents, how do we get the information we want from the sources who have access to it? Classic intelligence theory references MICE &#8211; Money, Intelligence, Conscience, and Ego. A while ago, I recorded this variant in my Spycraft notes: Material &#8211; we have a tangible thing they want (money, coke, hookers). Ideology &#8211; their beliefs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-spycraft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":244,"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions\/244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}