Advanced Criminal Investigations and Intelligence Operations

Tradecraft is a term used within the intelligence community to describe the methods, practices, and techniques used in espionage and clandestine investigations. Whether the practitioner is a covert agent for the government or an identity thief and con man, the methods, practices, tactics, and techniques are often the same and sometimes learned from

Dr. Robert Girod, Sr. is the president and CEO of Robert J. Girod Consulting, LLC, attorneys-at-law and consulting detectives/private investigators, which provides general law practice and investigative services, litigation support, and management services nationwide, including forensic accounting, computer forensics, accident reconstruction, and linguistic interviewing, translation, and interpretation. He is the author of Profiling the Criminal Mind: Behavioral Science and Criminal Investigative Analysis, Infamous Murders and Mysteries: Cold Case Files and Who-Done-Its, and Police Liability and Risk Management: Torts, Civil Rights and Employment Law. He has also authored numerous articles for various professional periodicals, such as FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, Security Management, The Police Marksman, and Musubi.

Black Bag Operational Planning. Human Intelligence. HUMINT Surveillance and Undercover Operations. Defenses against Methods of Entry. Forced Entry into Buildings. Safes, Combinations, and Automobile Locks. Psychological Operations and Social Networks. Electronic Intelligence and Signals Intelligence: Bugs and Taps. Emanations Intelligence. Imagery Intelligence. Internet and Database Open Sources. Intelligence Files and Analytical Investigative Methods. Intelligence, Surveillance, and Misappropriation Law. Computer Forensics: Searches, Evidence, and Notice. Computer Forensics: Discovery and Spoliation. Appendix A: Electronic Surveillance. Appendix B: Computer Privacy and Crime. Appendix C: Government Data Privacy. Appendix D: Consumer and Credit Data Privacy. Appendix E: List of Most Common Languages. References. Index.