US embassies act as intelligence collection facilitates

What most people don’t understand and most people who have been in the intelligence community have paid attention a little bit to the news is that every single American embassy is an intelligence collection facility.

The really second in charge of every embassy is the CIA station chief and that station chief would have acted in a very clear way and taking information from this guy.

Press TV: Where do you see the future of such espionage and intelligence gathering going?

Rickard: Obviously the future of this kind of espionage, being that you don’t have to do the paper and that you can actually steal things from work quite easily. There have been a lot of mechanisms put in place to monitor when these types of things are installed and devices to steal in but unfortunately administrators can all get around that.

So, where I see the future going is that they are going to do what they set at the NSA where they are going to do almost like locking down nuclear facilities where it will all take two individuals in order to bypass those mechanisms and configure those mechanisms whereby I think that they have allowed individuals to that independently but at the end of the day this kind of espionage will continue and the Americans will continue to actually do all of the surveillance they have been doing. They are just saving face at this moment.