NOC, NOC.You may have been puzzled when I referred earlier to the "occasional CIA CIA: see Central Intelligence Agency. (1) (Confidentiality Integrity Authentication) The three important concerns with regards to information security. Encryption is used to provide confidentiality (privacy, secrecy). officer" who had the enterprise to break out of the embassy. Weren't all CIA people out there spying on someone? The fact is that usually it's been mostly the NOCs who were "out there." NOC (Network Operations Center) A central or regional location for monitoring a large network. Also called a "network management center" (NMC), "service management center" (SMC) or "network control center" (NCC), a NOC may be used to manage a large enterprise network, means non-official cover Non-official cover (NOC) is a term used in espionage (particularly by the CIA) for agents or operatives who assume covert roles in organizations without ties to the government for which they work. , which in turn means the spies who are really spies, as in Kim, operating without diplomatic immunity A principle of International Law that provides foreign diplomats with protection from legal action in the country in which they work. Established in large part by the Vienna conventions, diplomatic immunity is granted to individuals depending on their rank and the , their covers ranging from street-sweeper to businessman. The trouble is that NOCs--Valerie Plame was one--have been a small minority of agency operatives abroad. Most of them work under diplomatic cover and as this magazine explained long ago ("Murder by the Book," by James Fallows, April 1976)--are absurdly easy for foreign intelligence agencies to spot. Because they become part of the diplomatic community, they and their spouses tend to become preoccupied with the internal affairs of embassy life, including perks, to the detriment of their work outside. |
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