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How Spies Actually Learn Social Engineering

If two podcast hosts can engineer a birthday prank in an afternoon, how do the professionals get trained? This episode traces the real history of social engineering in intelligence and policing: an OSS syllabus that ordered officers not to buy people, the CIA's decades-long assumption that recruiting skill was innate, and the career case officer who finally codified it in the agency's own journal. From MICE to a psychology-based framework built on Cialdini's principles of influence, plus the EU's credentialed informant-handling course and the one-day American police seminars filling the gap —…

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