0 the skills and methods used by people who work for organizations involved in secret activities such as intelligence and spying (= finding out secret information about enemies and competitors) or terrorism (= violent political crime):
The foreign intelligence threat may come from traditional means such spies living undercover, or from more contemporary methods of tradecraft.
Recent raids have uncovered intelligence about terrorist cells, operations and tradecraft.
The tricks and tradecraft that she describes are similar to those written about by other thriller writers.
Obviously, the course doesn't give you tradecraft. But we have a number of people come on the course from various intelligence agencies around the world.
His premiership is proving a compelling study in political tradecraft.
