» For the UK fair trade organisation, see Traidcraft. Tradecraft is a general term that denotes a skill acquired through experience in a trade. The termis also used in the United States Intelligence Community as a collective word for the techniques used in modern espionage. It can be used to refer to general topics or techniques (dead drops, for example), or the specific techniques of a nation or organization (the particular form of encryption used by the NSA, for example). Espionage technology… (More on Tradecraft)