Say you re an intelligence agency and you need to track a guy of a previous regime, and he just picked a remote third world location you dont know, crossed them border got a bit of surgery and integrated in some rural village there, without having contacts with anyone of his previous life.How do you track them down?
>>64761513Either they maintain contact with people back home and you get to them through those people, or they don't and you never find them. Neither option is relevant since you probably don't actually want to find the guy, getting them back is going to be more trouble than they're worth and it sets a bad precedent for when your regime gets kicked over.
>>64761513Getting there involves flight or sailing, crossing borders illegally usually involves organised crime, plastic surgeons are rare and vanishingly rare in the third world, and strangers are usually not well received in poor, isolated communities. It'd be easier to get botox injections and become homeless somewhere like SF or Berlin.
>>64761513Post articles online about his mother, make them increasingly derogatory and track who is clicking them.
>>64761513>just picked a remote third world location you dont know, crossed them border got a bit of surgery and integrated in some rural village there, without having contacts with anyone of his previous lifeThere's gradients of third world. If you buy a condo in Thailand under a false name with a legitimate passport you had made before you fled into exile and a photo and biometrics just different enough from your official passport to not ring any alarms, you could live out your life in peace.You couldn't interact with tourists though because one person from your old country who is shopping in the market and goes...>lol that sex pat looks like the potato peeler with a tan and a wig...and snaps a stealthy pic to post to friends, and you're fucked. Personally, I'd hang out in the carribean and live the sail boat life.Plenty of little islands you could settle on and avoid tourists.
>>64761513You have to never go anywhere there are cameras, people from your country or anywhere that cash is suspicious. Modern KYC laws are fucking awful for innocent people, they make life pretty challenging for the guilty who are trying to remain anonymous. You basically have to live in a cabin innawoods, or some beach equivalent. You can't go to a ski resort, a cafe, a mall...nothing with too many people or anything international. You can barely go online.It gets much easier if you have friends or a host nation who'll hide you and won't betray you. That last part is a bitch though.
>>64761513If he's on your radar then knowing the basics of the time, date and destination of his departure really helps track him. During GWOT, spooks were tracking people through sparse cell phone contacts in remote tribal regions in the middle of nowhere.>in some rural village there, without having contacts with anyone of his previous life.Nearly impossible if he wants to maintain a lifestyle above poverty. It's unbelievably hard for people to break habits, traditions and lifestyle. He would have to have no previous hobbies, no children, no parents, no girlfriends, no vices, no business, no bank account, no online browsing habits and no contact with anyone in the outside world. And the kicker? He would have to maintain this for the rest of his natural life. In essence he would be placing himself in self imposed exile and maximum security incarceration levels of isolation just to maintain opsec. People are REALLY fucking hard to disappear if a government is looking for them, double if they were someone important.
>>64761850And yes, before someone adds:"What if the host nation is friendly and keeping him comfortable?" Even worse. Previous relationships are the first thing a targeter establishes when someone goes on the lam. Every email, every text, every piece of SIGINT that they cam get their hands on is analyzed and kept for future reference. It's not just your database you're searching either, it's allied nations and friendly actors in hostile nations that you're working with, How much money would the guy pay to the third world general to stay hidden? I guarantee the amount can be dwarfed by any western intelligence agency motivated enough to find him, the only thing he can do is die uncomfortably or violently
>>64761850Most critical of all, can you change your gooning habits? The second your old gooning fingerprint shows up in Utah, it's over.
