Category: Professionalism
About professionalism
Many professions have mechanisms to certify practitioners as having recognised levels of competence and standards. Chartered Accountants and Chartered IT Professionals, are examples.
– What does it mean to be professional?
– Can professionalism be achieved with being certified?
– Could there ever be a Certified Espionage Professional?
These are the questions covered by the stories and articles in this category.
St0ries and commentary
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Suicide risk – a story of a failed intelligence officer
Death or the classroom. Mohammed planned to sit at the back of the room and contemplate the appropriate method of suicide for a failed intelligence officer.
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Presumed guilty – a story of intrusive surveillance
‘She’s a journalist, that makes her guilty,’ the intelligence officer declared. ‘Get me evidence for intrusive surveillance and we’ll find her dirty secrets.’
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The price of secrecy-first – a 2½-page story
Mikael’s secrecy-first speech was cut short by the minister. ‘Tell me more about this cyber-attack. Are they really intending to cripple our railway network?’
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A delicate liaison – a 2-page story of fear and bullying
“Francesca will be in danger,” Graziano warned. It wasn’t the role of an intelligence liaison operative to state the obvious but he feared for her.
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About Adrian Cowderoy – emerging spy thriller author
Away from my career as a Chartered IT Professional, I’m a spy thriller author. That includes the novels and the 10+ flash fiction stories on this website.
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The intelligence collectors’ AI Awayday – a 2-page story
The AI Awayday for the intelligence collectors had been in the calendar for weeks, and the mystery had added to the excitement about Artificial Intelligence.