Re: An Intelligence Agency Cat Burglar
Some real world input:
Throughout the US government (including both the FBI and CIA) there are teams of employees trained in "black bag jobs" also known as a “surreptitious entry.†The gov’t uses these specially trained professionals to place surveillance devices and check for evidence/intelligence without the target knowing it took place. The advantage of using trained employees verses criminals (reformed or forced) is loyalty. These employees will inevitably be exposed to very sensitive information, devices, and techniques.
If criminals are used at all it is simply to train the loyal employee. However, even this is rarely necessary since there is very little the technical experts associates with government or defense contractors can’t figure out in regard to getting past a security device, lock, or safe.
It’s important to note the FBI must receive a sealed search warrant to enter the premises if they ever hope to use anything of the evidence in court. To do otherwise would be breaking the law (they really don’t like doing that). The intelligence community does not have to worry about the admissibility of what they find but they do have to worry about intelligence oversight (managers get fired over stiff like that).
