Editing Espionage (section)

== Modern day ==
Today, spy agencies target the [[illegal drug trade]] and [[terrorism|terrorists]] as well as state actors.<ref>Arrillaga, Pauline. [http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/05/07/ap/national/main20060765.shtml "China's spying seeks secret US info."] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110519102542/http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/05/07/ap/national/main20060765.shtml |date=May 19, 2011 }} ''AP'', 7 May 2011.</ref>

Intelligence services value certain intelligence collection techniques over others. The former Soviet Union, for example, preferred [[Human intelligence (intelligence gathering)|human sources]] over [[Open-source intelligence|research in open sources]], while the United States has tended to emphasize technological methods such as [[Signals intelligence|SIGINT]] and [[Imagery intelligence|IMINT]]. In the Soviet Union, both political ([[KGB]]) and [[military intelligence]] ([[GRU (Soviet Union)|GRU]])<ref>{{cite book| first = Victor| last = Suvorov| author-link = Victor Suvorov| title = Inside the Aquarium| publisher = Berkley| year = 1987| isbn = 978-0-425-09474-7}}</ref> officers were judged by the number of agents they recruited.<!-- This is financial intelligence (FININT), not espionage. If it can be sourced, this should move to FININT. Since January of 2000, a long list of agencies have been data mining the world's stock exchanges; for the US, this program was formalized on October 26, 2001, in the form of the [[Patriot Act]]. This helps track the financing of people who might be laundering money. This is done without warrants. The PATRIOT Act is by no means the only legislation involved here. See, for example, the [[Bank Secrecy Act]], the Right to Financial Privacy Act, and, to some extent, the [[Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act]] and the [[Sarbanes-Oxley Act]]-->