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In The Departed both sides try to drop some decoy info "and see what comes out the other end" to identify the mole. Does that tradecraft have a name?

Posted by Max Dec 12 '19, 14:43

In one of Tom Clancy's novels he refers to a 'canary in a coalmine' method of using a different typo in classified documents to ID the unique person who leaked a copy of it.

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I read the term "poison pill", sometimes. (NM) - Marlowe Dec 12, 14:58
canary trap is the Clancy name iirc -- nm - Beaker Dec 12, 14:48

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In The Departed both sides try to drop some decoy info "and see what comes out the other end" to identify the mole. Does that tradecraft have a name?

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