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FBI,CIA:What does it mean to be an asset?

In the context of the FBI, CIA, and other intelligence agencies, an *asset* refers to an individual who provides valuable information, intelligence, or assistance to the agency, often in a covert manner. Assets can be insiders within foreign governments, corporations, or criminal organizations, or they can be regular individuals with access to valuable knowledge or networks. Unlike agency employees or officers, assets are not typically on the agency’s payroll or official roster but are "recruited" to provide critical information or carry out specific tasks.

### Key Traits and Roles of Assets
1. **Access**: Assets are valuable because they have access to restricted information, locations, or individuals that would otherwise be out of reach.
2. **Motivation**: An asset may be motivated by ideology, money, revenge, or other personal reasons. Intelligence agencies assess and sometimes exploit these motivations to secure cooperation.
3. **Training and Guidance**: Assets may receive training, direction, or support from agency operatives on how to gather information, maintain secrecy, and communicate effectively.

### Different Types of Assets
- **Confidential Informants (CIs)**: Often assist law enforcement (like the FBI) in investigations, typically in exchange for reduced sentences or other benefits.
- **Intelligence Assets**: For agencies like the CIA, these individuals work in intelligence-gathering operations, sometimes in hostile or foreign environments.

Being an asset often requires risk, secrecy, and loyalty to the agency they support.

Foreign government:What does it mean to be an asset?
When someone is an *asset* to a foreign government, it means they covertly provide information, services, or assistance that supports the goals of that government, typically without an official position or visible connection. Unlike diplomats or formal allies, assets operate under the radar, often outside their home country, and may not even be citizens of the foreign government they assist.

### Characteristics of an Asset for a Foreign Government
1. **Access and Influence**: They may have positions in industries, government agencies, or other environments that give them access to sensitive information or influential connections.
2. **Covert Loyalty or Collaboration**: Assets are often recruited because they share an ideological alignment, are incentivized financially, or have been coerced or blackmailed.
3. **Operational Guidance**: The foreign government may give them specific tasks, like gathering intelligence, influencing local policies, or even sabotaging competing interests.

### Examples of Foreign Government Assets
- **Corporate Insiders**: Individuals with access to proprietary or technological information that could benefit the foreign government.
- **Political Influencers**: Assets with influence over local politics, public opinion, or policy-making who can help shape policies favorable to the foreign government.
- **Community Leaders or Public Figures**: People who might sway communities or sectors of the population subtly toward interests that align with those of the foreign government.

Being an asset for a foreign government is a high-risk role that typically demands secrecy and careful handling. If exposed, assets risk legal consequences, damaged reputations, and strained relationships with their own country.

He is their asset, it means he is a tool they can manipulate anytime they want because he has shitted inside the musq. They can screw him any style they want, without gold circle, without paying him shi shi. The country is screwed.

Jagaban at work.

Any country that has Tinubu as its president is lucky.

tundegan:
Jagaban at work.

Any country that has Tinubu as its president is lucky.

They are lucky, they will be giving BJ to the CIA for free

—Tinubu is CIA asset

—I heard Obi is an IPOB asset.

—I also heard Trump is a DSS asset

Can you confirm this @OP?

LegendHero:
—Tinubu is CIA asset

—I heard Obi is an IPOB asset.

—I also heard Trump is a DSS asset

Can you confirm this @OP?

Number 1 is correct
Number 2 and 3 are fitments of your imagination.

Obi is a liability

Obiedun:
Obi is a liability

Stop doing free camping for Peter Obi, wait till he pays you

vanbonattel:
Number 1 is correct
Number 2 and 3 are fitments of your imagination.

Okay my bad. Thanks for the correction.

One other thing, can you help me check CIA record. Is it true that his name was initially Amoda Ogunlere and he had to change that to Tinubu as instructed by CIA head office?

This is a very interesting development.

LegendHero:
—Tinubu is CIA asset

—I heard Obi is an IPOB asset.

—I also heard Trump is a DSS asset

Can you confirm this @OP?

You didn't comment on the Ogun State thread where unknown gunmen killed two people. Why are you this bigoted and wicked analyst?

NB: I don't comment on local politics outside my region because I can't vouch for the authenticity of manipulated and twisted media but you, Igbo, Igbo, Igbo is what full your head. Abeg rest the bigotry.

I am glad the US court is recognizing the value of Tinubu to their operations.

LadyExcellency:
You didn't comment on the Ogun State thread where unknown gunmen killed two people. Why are you this bigoted and wicked analyst?

NB: I don't comment on local politics outside my region because I can't vouch for the authenticity of manipulated and twisted media but you, Igbo, Igbo, Igbo is what full your head. Abeg rest the bigotry.

Oya beg me

LegendHero:
Oya beg me

You weren't like this before, Nairaland corrupted you. You changed your username to pick a fight.

This is serious and very revealing.

LadyExcellency:
You weren't like this before, Nairaland corrupted you. You changed your username to pick a fight.

Your people made us like this. The problem here is that it’s only less than 20% of Yoruba that engage in eye for ann eye bigotry like I’m doing.

Fortunately for me, the numbers have started increasing massively. Every day when I wake and go to Twitter and see how many more Yoruba conservatives we are breeding by the day, I feel like a fulfilled man.

If you leave your own people to continue their bigotry but think you can guilt trip people like me, please “abort mission” coz you’re engaging in a futile effort.

I hope Nigeria has not lost it .for context imagine Coca-Cola research and development staff boasting that the 7up ceo is their valuable asset.

It even means Nigeria is useless to BRICS and all they went to Saudi Arabia to do is just a charade.

I sincerely hope Russia, China, Iran, India is watching.

Nigeria should be non aligned to either the west or the east.


This is not good for Nigeria. It has never happened before . Even when murtala Mohammed was toppled by the Cia, they never boasted this way.

Toh

LegendHero:
Your people made us like this. The problem here is that it’s only less than 20% of Yoruba that engage in eye for ann eye bigotry like I’m doing.

Fortunately for me, the numbers have started increasing massively. Every day when I wake and go to Twitter and see how many more Yoruba conservatives we are breeding by the day, I feel like a fulfilled man.

If you leave your own people to continue their bigotry but think you can guilt trip people like me, please “abort the mission” coz you’re engaging in a futile effort.

Yes, Sir, mission aborted.

So, he was a covert agent working for the US government.

CIA assets operates covertly, but according to obidents in the case of Tinubu, CIA came to announce it.
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Has FBI released the thousands of case files against Tinubu?

trutharena:
So, he was a covert agent working for the US government.

And same US govt will expose someone working for them as covert?

vanbonattel:
Number 1 is correct
Number 2 and 3 are fitments of your imagination.

Buhari is a Jibril from Sudan.
The Tinubu that attended Chicago State University is a female.
They are correct right?

HgAkpobomeEr:
This is a very interesting development.

There's no development here, Americans are reading this and laughing at the f000Iishness of Nigeriàñs to make a Iame story a national taIk.

What does it mean to be a government asset?

Anither563:
This is serious and very revealing.

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When I see Nigerians taking this talk serious, I laugh out so hard.
What is serious about this?
A story that generated from Hudenyin, what has it revealed so far?
The f00Iishñèss of Nigerians?
CIA will not declare who their asset is, that's a standard way of operation.
Blowing the cover of someone working under cover, LOL.
CIA agents rarely know about each other but somehow Nigerians believe CIA will announce who's their asset or not.

kettykin:
I hope Nigeria has not lost it .for context imagine Coca-Cola research and development staff boasting that the 7up ceo is their valuable asset.

It even means Nigeria is useless to BRICS and all they went to Saudi Arabia to do is just a charade.

I sincerely hope Russia, China, Iran, India is watching.

Nigeria should be non aligned to either the west or the east.


This is not good for Nigeria. It has never happened before . Even when murtala Mohammed was toppled by the Cia, they never boasted this way.

When and where did CIA boast that Tinubu is their asset?
Can u tell us?
Or u think China, Russia, Iran and India are stuuuupid Iike Nigerîàns to be circulating news from David Hudenyin?

JagabanBorgu:
When and where did CIA boast that Tinubu is their asset?
Can u tell us?
Or u think China, Russia, Iran and India are stuuuupid Iike Nigerîàns to be circulating news from David Hudenyin?

If this was a lie then the person that originated this went too far

kettykin:
If this was a lie then the person that originated this went too far

Buhari is Jibril from Sudan, someone originated it.
We live in a country where everyone is trying to be an influencer so everyone wants to jump on a trend, CIA is an intelligence agency for crying out loud.
They are not stuuuupid like Nigeriàñs.

vanbonattel:
Stop doing free camping for Peter Obi, wait till he pays you

Your English is bad. What is camping fir peter obi? Are you in JSS1?

vanbonattel:
Stop doing free camping for Peter Obi, wait till he pays you

obi is a bigot. He will never never be president