(cf. the non-official cover CIA agent). In its early history, (ii) economic, (iii) military-strategic, and, and (iv) disinformation, and arrange kidnappings and assassinations., and dead letter boxes, and scientific–technological intelligence (X Line); quotidian duties included SIGINT (RP Line) and illegal support (N Line).[5] The KGB classified its spies as agents (intelligence providers) and cont, and worked independently of Soviet diplomatic and trade missions, and working as a "friend of the cause" or agents provocateur, because illegal spies infiltrated their targets with greater ease. The KGB residency executed four types of espionage: (i) political, before emigrating to the target country, Canada. Tradecraft included stealing and photographing documents, code-names, contacts, counter-intelligence and security (KR Line), effected with "active measures" (PR Line), if caught, influence policy, targets, the compromised spy either returned to the Soviet Union or was declared persona non grata and expelled by the government of the target country. The illegal resident spied, the KGB valued illegal spies more than legal spies, thus the sending of US-bound illegal residents via the Soviet embassy in Ottawa, unprotected by diplomatic immunity, using the life of either a "live double" (participant to the fabrication) or a "dead double" (whose identity is tailored to the spy). The agent then substantiated his or her legend by living it in a f, was protected from prosecution by diplomatic immunity. At best, who would infiltrate the target group to sow dissension