Treff (news service)
A meeting is the scheduled gathering of people who work for an intelligence service. As a rule, this involves a full-time command officer (or a courier) and a source ( informant ). Meetings can be used for initiation , advertising, training, control (leadership), information transfer or disconnection.
The meeting conditions and the meeting place are selected and planned according to intelligence principles. The meeting conditions can be recorded in a meeting instruction . In a meeting report , the command officer can write down the circumstances of the meeting as well as the content of the meeting (information communicated / transferred). If the officer in charge and the source cannot yet meet, this is referred to as an initial meeting , the later meetings are identification meetings .
Pre-meetings are used for a short, secret exchange of warning signs or references to a main meeting, reserve meetings can be arranged in advance in order to be able to avoid disruptions. The established procedures include signals, signs and slogans to keep the meeting conspiratorial.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bodo Hechelhammer (Hrsg.): Intelligence service definitions of the " Organization Gehlen " and the early Federal Intelligence Service (= Federal Intelligence Service [Hrsg.]: Communications of the research and working group "History of the BND" . Volume 4 ). Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-943549-03-4 .
- ^ Helmut Roewer, Stefan Schäfer, Matthias Uhl: Lexicon of secret services in the 20th century . with 1465 illustrations and organizational charts. Herbig, Munich 2003, ISBN 978-3-7766-2317-8 , pp. 462 (keyword “Treff”).