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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BlackMoria" data-source="post: 1524209" data-attributes="member: 424">You don't have nearly enough people for an intelligence gathering network of the scope you want.Look at 'recruiting' merchants, innkeepers, bards or any other occupations which have heavy contact with people to report information you are interested in.  These individuals are not actually part of the organization.  In fact, they don't even know about the organization.  All they know is that they get paid for reporting certain types of information to certain 'contact' people.  These people are the 'ears'.One in a village, several in a town and more in city (dependent on size) should be sufficent for general coverage.   If a threat is forthcoming from a region, you double or triple up on the number of 'ears' in that region.Now, you have raw information coming in from the 'ears' - some of which will be true, but most which will be rumor or hearsay.   Now you need the first 'real' agents of the organization.  These are the 'eyes' for the organization.  And you need people to sift through all the raw information to determine information of a priority nature and what information requires further backup action.  These peoples are the 'brains'.So, in general terms, paid informants (the ears) sent information to a contact person (the legs) who then relay the information to other contacts (depending on how much 'depth' you want for reasons of security), who then relay the information to the analysers (the brains).The 'brains' gather, evaluate and analyse the data from all sources.  For example, several persistent rumors from different sources say something is going on in area X - but they are just that, rumors.  So the brains would task one or more of the 'eyes' to go covertly into the area to verify (or not) the rumor and to gather further information on the subject of interest and report back. Then you will need another group to take action if required - these people are the individuals who 'kidnap' valued targets, perform assassinations and, in essence, do the dirty work that comes with cloak and dagger business.So, in general terms, this is a rough design of a intelligence agency.   Beware that an organization requires money.   Money to pay for information, to pay members of the organization, money for bribes, money to purchase the services of 'independent contractors'....  You get the picture.If you intention is to be an independent information 'broker'  at some point, you need to have sources of revenue to support.  Stealing it is possible but stealing calls attention.  So you will need to invest in several legitimate and 'shell businesses' to help fund the organization.  And of course, as in independent information broker, you will 'sell' information.Some thoughts....</blockquote>

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