I put together some thoughts on surveillance detection for the Ontic blog.
For a stalker or assassin to be successful, they must study and observe their target, an action that makes them vulnerable to surveillance detection. The challenge is seeing the surveillance taking place.
Surveillance Detection: You Can't Find Surveillance Unless You're Looking For It - Ontic
I learned surveillance tradecraft the hard way in the 1980's, as chronicled in my memoir Ghost: Confessions of a Counterterrorism Agent (Random House, 2008). The course of history has been altered with significant protective intelligence failures and tragedies, from assassinations to school shootings, many caused by failing to notice or act on hostile surveillance.
