Perception Management and Active Measures activities. Adverse effects on our national security, could result from the unauthorized disclosure of classified information. History is replete with situations in which a nation's security was gravely damaged by a foreign intelligence services. On the other hand. The very fate of nations can damaged or enhanced by their enterprises.
Intelligence services gather information in many different ways.
One way is by recruiting U. S. Government employees who work in sensitive positions. These intelligence collectors work the Washington metropolitan area and other locations where strategic data can be collected. They gain their desired information wherever, whenever, and from whomever it can be had. The intelligence collectors befriend potential targets, treat them to gifts and money, and wine and dine them. Many intelligence agents believe that Americans are hopeless materialists and can be easily swayed by appeals to their alleged greed.