Black bag operation

Collection of burglar's tools, with objects such as lockpicks, drills, skeleton keys such as are used in black bag jobs.

Black bag operations or black bag jobs are covert or clandestine entries into structures to obtain information for human intelligence operations.[1]

Some of the tactics, techniques, and procedures associated with black bag operations are lock picking, safe cracking, key impressions, fingerprinting, photography, electronic surveillance (including audio and video surveillance), mail manipulation (flaps and seals), and forgery. The term "black bag" refers to the small bags in which burglars stereotypically carry their tools.

  1. ^ "Tallinn government surveillance cameras reveal black bag operation". Intelnews. 16 December 2008. Archived from the original on 1 April 2013. Retrieved 3 December 2012.