Covert Criminal Activity

Sabotage
States deploy criminal actors and illicit methods to achieve strategic objectives while maintaining plausible deniability for actions that would be diplomatically or politically costly if openly attributed.
Author
Affiliation

E. Rosalie Li

Information Epidemiology Lab

Published

February 17, 2026

Sabotage

States deploy criminal actors and illicit methods to achieve strategic objectives while maintaining plausible deniability for actions that would be diplomatically or politically costly if openly attributed.

FIMI Taxonomy by Information Epidemiology Lab.

Citation

BibTeX citation:
@article{li2026,
  author = {Li, E. Rosalie},
  title = {Covert {Criminal} {Activity}},
  date = {2026-02-17},
  url = {https://fimi.infoepi.org/mechanisms/covert-criminal-activity.html},
  langid = {en}
}
For attribution, please cite this work as:
Li, E. Rosalie. 2026. “Covert Criminal Activity,” February. https://fimi.infoepi.org/mechanisms/covert-criminal-activity.html.