GHOST ECHO FILES
Hollywood Breakdown – Covert Operations
29 December 2025OK, let’s take a fun little look at Hollywood depictions of surveillance, surveillance detection and general covert operations. First, understand that I’m a huge movie buff, so I’m not about to pour any scorn on the film industry for what it gets wrong. Movies and TV shows are for fun and so is this article … Read More
Ami Toben on the Technoskeptical Podcast
19 December 2025Military, martial arts, Israel, Japan, intelligence, Middle East conflicts, Ghost Echo, Surveillance Zone, and much more…There are podcasts and there are podcasts, Alex Fox’s Technoskeptical is the latter. It’s been quite a while since I’ve done one of these, and I couldn’t think of anyone better to talk with than my good friend, Alex – … Read More
Tips & Suggestions For Covert Operators
18 November 2025How to Operate Covertly The goal of this article is simple: to offer practical, experience-based tips for covert operators—and to highlight some of the most common, predictable, and therefore detectable mistakes people make in the field. In other words, these are the mistakes you want to spot in others and avoid yourself. Cover and Cover … Read More

Ami Toben
Ami Toben is the author of Surveillance Zone and Ghost Echo and an experienced security professional who specializes in terrorist activity prevention, surveillance detection, and covert protective operations.
Trained in Israel, Japan and the US, Ami has over 20 years of military (IDF) and private sector security experience. Currently based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Ami has been providing high-end protective services to Fortune 500 corporations, foreign governments, foundations, nonprofit organizations and high-net-worth individuals.