Linyeon Maung Maung - Spy Story

Spy work and meditation

During World War II, there was a young officer serving in the British Intelligence Service. He was a young man who carried out his assigned duties without complaining and was very active. After successfully completing all the tasks assigned to him, he became very interested in espionage and decided to work as a spy. He also fully believed that he had the skills to be a spy.

So, the young officer, who had decided to become a spy, presented his reasons to his superiors and requested that they assign him as a spy. The superiors, because of his commitment to duty, his quickness, and his thoroughness in everything, almost all agreed to assign him as a spy. However, the young officer who wanted to become a spy was asked in a sarcastic manner.

"Now... let me ask you one last question. If you were to unexpectedly kill someone while serving as a spy... would you dare to kill that person? Would you be able to kill him?"

"I dare to kill"

"Okay, I believe you dare to kill. But I'll ask you a follow-up question. I want you to answer this question honestly, as you have it in your mind. Don't lie or cheat. The question is, if you had to kill that person at that time, would you be willing to kill him? Would you dare to kill him?"

The young officer suddenly hesitated for a few seconds, not knowing what to say. Then he answered each question in detail. "It's not easy to kill with such enthusiasm. Because according to the religion I believe in..."

"Okay... okay, that's all I know. Since you dare not touch a butterfly with your mind and hands in a place like this, I know your mentality. I thank you for speaking the truth as you are. But I am also very sorry to tell you that you are not yet fully qualified to be a spy."

In fact, espionage is a job where you have to "walk on the eyebrows of others." In the case of "others," you have to "walk on the eyebrows" of other people in other countries, not your own people. Therefore, for spies who are constantly surrounded by danger, it is important to be able to lie and deceive if there is something to be done, and it is also necessary to be able to "walk on the eyebrows" of other people in other countries if there is something to be done.

If, amidst such deceit and evasion, danger unexpectedly arises, it is most important to be able to avoid it and escape it. Therefore, if it is unavoidable, spies must be able to treat a person's life as a weapon. In a real crisis, they must be those who are not slow and unyielding to save the lives of the other side's enemies.

If, at such a time and in such a situation, one is reluctant to kill the other enemy, or if one is slow-witted, or if one is careless, one will lose one's life at the hands of the other enemy. Therefore, when a spy becomes a matter of life and death, he must be willing to kill the other enemy. He must be able to kill. Because at that time and in that situation, it is a "life or death" situation and time.

Thus, in spy training schools, they often teach how to kill someone without making a sound, and how to kill them in seconds. However, silent killing techniques are usually taught at the last stage.

First, before being allowed to attend spy training schools, they are tested with various questions and practical tests to see how strong their mental strength, resourcefulness, and ability to overcome difficulties in a confined space are.

When screening candidates, senior officers, psychologists, psychiatrists, and “retired spies” are often present. Every question they ask is one that is meaningful to a candidate in some way. With these questions, they “penetrate” the candidate’s skills, experience, abilities, and ideas.

Through this, they test the spies' loyalty to their country and government in various ways.

It is important for a spy to be mentally strong and physically healthy. He must always be alert and always active. In particular, a spy must adapt to the environment wherever he goes. Here, the proverb “If you are not in Rome, act like a Roman” is a motto that spies must always follow. For spies, it is not only “If you are not in Rome, act like a Roman” but also to speak and act like an Englishman in England and a German in Germany. In short, for a spy, the one thing that is absolutely indispensable is good manners.

An Englishman spying in Germany must be able to pretend to be a real German. Similarly, a Russian spy working in America must be able to pretend to be an American. Similarly, a good spy must pretend to be a prisoner of war, a millionaire banker, a hotel guard, a railway worker, or a Christian priest, depending on the circumstances of the spy's mission.

Along with the skill of disguise that spies possess, there is also the skill of disguise.

When you think of the art of transfiguration, some people may immediately imagine the transfigurationists in movies and detective novels who wear fake beards, mustaches, hair, and teeth. However, the use of these fake devices to transform spies became almost non-existent during and after World War I.

The transformation techniques taught in modern spy schools are no longer “clumsy and phony” with fake hair, fake mustaches, and fake beards, but rather, they use transformation techniques that make a person’s appearance significantly different from their original appearance by subtly changing something on their face. For example, a scar on their left cheek or a mole on their right cheek can suddenly make their original face unrecognizable. In particular, changing their hairstyle can completely change their appearance. For example, cutting someone who always has long hair into a bob, or letting someone who always has a neat and tidy hairstyle comb their hair, Even everyday people can "mislead people." At least, someone who can part their hair on the right and comb it to the left can make a big difference. They can also dye their hair a different color to make it look different.

Similarly, by subtly adjusting the position of the eyebrows, or by wearing various types of glasses such as sunglasses, gold-rimmed glasses, etc., they can suddenly become unrecognizable. Some people paint their upper or lower teeth black to make it look like one of their front teeth is broken. In this way, they can change their appearance so that they are completely unrecognizable from a distance.

Some people dye their hair to change color, making dark-skinned people brown, and fair-skinned people dark.

They are able to transform and change their appearance by manipulating and creating scientifically formulated drugs.

They are taught the skills of changing their appearance and skin, as well as the techniques of changing their body proportions, height, and gait. By practicing walking with a slight bend in the waist, they appear to be about two inches shorter than their original height. Occasionally, one leg is “splayed out” in a way that makes them look like they are taller.

There are also those who walk with a limp and "take the wrong picture".

Once, a French spy, walking with a limp and wearing a “saddle” on one leg, came to the border from Poland to enter Germany. The German border guards, thinking that the spy was an ordinary civilian, questioned him thoroughly and allowed him to enter Germany. The spy, who had been so happy to be granted permission, suddenly forgot that he had been walking with a limp earlier and walked steadily like a good man. The German guards, suspicious of him, called him in for questioning and immediately recognized him as a spy and arrested him.

This is a sign of the poor condition of the spy training school that taught the spy. Because it is safer to practice walking with one foot “sore” than to practice with a small stone in one shoe. In this way, the

By walking with a stone in his shoe, he no longer had to deliberately limp, but the leg on the side where the stone was placed would automatically limp. Now, however, the spy was walking with a limp without putting a stone in his shoe, and suddenly he was overcome with joy and lost consciousness, and instead of pretending to limp as before, he was arrested for a simple, minor negligence.

In addition to these skills of transformation, spies also learn to master certain modern devices. These include how to use recording devices, radio transmitters, and wireless telegraphs, as well as how to disassemble, assemble, and repair them. They also learn how to send and receive messages in coded form.

In addition, they are trained to write in plain text and use it to send and receive news without using modern equipment, as well as to mix secret inks and magical inks. Through this, they are also taught how to handle and shoot various weapons and how to master the “burglary skills” of opening safes, vaults, and locked cabinets and drawers with a hammer.

These are the physical skills that spies are taught. In addition, they are also taught to be well-rounded in terms of mental skills.

To have complete self-confidence and to always control one's mind and be always alert is an important psychological lesson for spies. One must be able to control one's emotions as much as possible, such as surprise, shock, and anger, when one sees, hears, or hears something unexpected. A person's inner emotions are always reflected on his face, and only one in a hundred or a thousand people are able to control such reflection. All these people are spies. In the dictionary of spies, there are words like "losing face, losing composure, etc."