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FBI
• It also provides services to other law enforcement agencies, including fingerprint identification, laboratory analysis of criminal evidence, police training, and access to a centralized crime information database.
FBI美国联邦调查局
• Federal Bureau of Investigation • Chief investigative agency of the
United States federal government and a division of the U.S. Department of Justice
intelligence community, which includes agencies such as the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and the National Security Agency (NSA). • In addition, the CIA takes overall responsibility for gathering information from other U.S. intelligence agencies, analyzing the separate pieces of information from each source, and providing a recommendation to the president of the United States and the president’s advisers.
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Age, appearance
Personality
Tasks Responsibilities
Reasons
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Young or old? Handsome or
ordinarylooking?
Adventurous Courageous
Intelligent Shrewd精明的 Presence of mind
They live in a secret world of deception, fraud欺骗,, and sometimes violence.
Collect and pass on significant information Recruit new agents
CIA中央情报局
• Central Intelligence Agency • Mainly for gathering secret information that may bear on
national security • Created in 1947 • The CIA also coordinates the activities of the United States
An Example
• British intelligence agents secretly intercepted (截获) conversations of U.N. SecretaryGeneral Kofi Annan in his New York offices last year.
• What is your general impression of a spy? Look at the prompts (提示) and pictures on the next slide and try to think of as many words as possible to describe people who work as a secret agent.
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Unit 4
W arming up B ackground T ext Analysis R einforcement
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Unit 4
Questions / Activities Check-on Preview Objectives
Warming up
WB TR
Warming up Questions / Activities
• Have you ever seen a spy movie, or read a spy story? What is it?
• Do you like it? Why?
WB TR
What is a spy like?
• Intelligence(情报)：evaluated and processed information needed to make decisions. Intelligence generally has a national security connotation and therefore exists in an aura(光环) of secrecy.
Espionage
For money? For ambition? For patriotism?
Espionage
• [Fr.] spying
• Espionage(谍报)： the secret collection of information, or intelligence, that the source of such information wishes to protect from disclosure.
• The primary responsibility for counterespionage activities within the US., coordinating its work with the CIA, which is responsible for such operations outside the US.