I know that countries governments communicate with each other using embassies, but how would a non-state actor make diplomatic communications with another country?
If an armed paramilitary group was emerging, and had decent enough manpower and support within the country it operated in (say, they were trying to overthrow the government) and needed weapons, how would they make contact with a foreign source willing to supply them, and how would the weapons arrive into the country from whatever foreign source was supplying them?
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Thanks to Hollywood, people assume that CIA agents are out there assassinating bad guys and disarming bombs. But really, the primary job of an intelligence agency is to gather information for policy makers to use when making decisions.
In fact, there’s really no difference between intelligence agents and reporters: they both want to learn things that some people would prefer to keep secret and they want to learn them before the competition. You’d even find that they use a lot of the same methods.
So, outside powers find out about rebel groups through their intelligence agents (or diplomats, who also keep their eyes and ears open).
And as far as shipping in weapons? Smuggling has been done literally since the beginning of human history. Weapons come in the same way that drugs and illegal immigrants do.
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