>>2597653

1. Now this foreknowledge cannot be elicited from spirits; it cannot

be obtained inductively from experience, nor by any deductive calculation.

1. Knowledge of the enemy's dispositions can only be obtained from

other men.

1. Hence the use of spies, of whom there are five classes: (1) Local

spies; (2) inward spies; (3) converted spies; (4) doomed spies; (5)

surviving spies.

1. When these five kinds of spy are all at work, none can discover

the secret system. This is called "divine manipulation of the threads."

It is the sovereign's most precious faculty.

1. Having local spies means employing the services of the inhabitants

of a district.

1. Having inward spies, making use of officials of the enemy.

1. Having converted spies, getting hold of the enemy's spies and

using them for our own purposes.

1. Having doomed spies, doing certain things openly for purposes

of deception, and allowing our spies to know of them and report them

to the enemy.

1. Surviving spies, finally, are those who bring back news from the

enemy's camp.

>>2597846

And you know how much and what I have read how? Neither does your "concern" prove that he isn't, now does it?

>>2597908

I don't need to prove anything. You make up your own mind and I'll make up mine. See how easy that was?

>>2597975

Or at least clipped the tops of some trees off.

>>2598025

Not that I've seen.