1) International conferences attract spies for the same reason hotel bars attract hookers - you can do business and drink for free.
2) Any high security function is going to have a lot of oversight, a lot of meetings, a lot of bureaucrats checking up on each other. In all the confusion of a big event, it's easy for another bureaucrat to just show up. The important things is to disappear before anyone can ask questions.
3) If they do decide to ask questions, you have to hope you're in a building with a lot of hallways, a good service basement...and plenty of exits.
4) Sometimes making an escape is just about being willing to do what the guys chasing you won't - like jump off a building.
5) Convincing a bully to back down is usually just a matter of showing you're not afraid of him. Of course some bullies have guys with .357 magnums - then you change tactics.
6) When faced with a superior force, you can do 2 things: you can retreat quietly or you can attack with as much fanfare as possible.
7) Once they send guys to kill you, you're past the "I won't tell" stage.
8) Outfitting a safe house is about 2 things: you need to know if someone's coming and you need to know how the folks you're protecting are going to get out of there if they do.
9) A $35 outdoor floodlight has a decent motion detector on it. Wire that to a cell phone and you've got a remote alarm system that will call you if there's trouble.
10) Threaten any serious criminal organization and they're going to do one of two things: they'll send someone to make a deal or they'll send someone to make a corpse. Either way, you've got something to work with.
11) When you go on the run, the first thing you do is lay down tracks in the opposite direction. But that only works if the bad guys find the trail and believe it's for real - which means selling it. You need to put on a little show, make them feel clever. If you make somebody work to get a piece of information, they'll believe it that much more because it was hard to get.
12) Approaching a spy in the middle of a job gives you a lot of leverage. They're playing a delicate game and the last thing they want is someone coming in and smashing their delicate game with a brick.
13) Basic rule of bodyguarding: never fight with the protectee around...mostly because if they happen to catch a stray bullet, you just lost your job.
14) Modern technology has made it possible to do sophisticated surveillance with stuff from your local electronics store.
15) Faking surveillance footage has come a long way. It used to be u
you'd spend days slaving over a VHS tape with a razor blade. Now it's a few hours on a computer.
16) A drug cartel is a business. If killing a witness to protect a valued employee from jail time is the best way to keep making money, they'll do that. If it looks like that employee is testifying to the FBI, then they're just as happy to leave the witness alone and take care of the problem another way.
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I swear to Christmas, I turn my back for like ONE second and I come outside to this. He got up on the table and couldn't get down! I had to pick up all hundred something pounds of him. (Of course I took his picture first, because seriously who wouldn't?) He was very relieved and grateful to be back on solid ground.
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