Subj : Re: Getting Safe Houses Invisible
To   : warmfuzzy
From : k9zw
Date : Thu Sep 08 2022 17:12:10

A protected refuge is something more than a safehouse.  It is believed that the local intel & police were part of the protection package.

It may be worthwhile to break down the intended use of a safe house into refuge, covert meeting, transit, communications, normal living, stay-behind, exfiltration and so on.

Many types of safehouses are not useful a second time, or maybe usable for a different type of safehouse purpose.

Some are unattended, some have custodians and some are protected .

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The case in question was sort of a status-quo safehouse, where intel agencies may have known for some time the location, but chose to monitor and surveil rather than raid.  Something preciptitated the raid, likely guess is a leak that the safehouse was compromised. 

Long term it is possible to fake the emmisions of normal occupancy well enough to blend in.

Some advanced medical gear was required in this case due to health reasons, and much study was made of the detection of this gear.  Snowdon's release suggests that electromechanicaly ID was studied.

It is pretty hard to enter a safehouse a person of interest and leave it as a benign "gray man" though that sort of idea works well in movies and novels.

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