article_snippet.sent: Khlifawi explains in detail how ISIS were able to take control in Syria by infiltrating villages and using spies .
article_snippet.sent: The rapid growth and establishment of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria has been far from an accidental rise of religious fanaticism, but a calculated move orchestrated by one of Saddam Hussein's closest men.
article_snippet.sent: The handwritten charts and notes of Samir al-Khlifawi, a former Iraqi Army colonel better known by nom de guerre Haji Bakr, explains in detail how ISIS were able to take control in the area.
article_snippet.sent: The 'blueprints' outline exactly how the group intended to infiltrate villages and cities by recruiting young men as spies and establishing a 'Stasi-like' secret service for internal surveillance.
article_snippet.sent: Haji Bakr writes how the group would open a 'Dawah office', an Islamic missionary centre, which would be used as a cover to screen young men for potential suitability.
article_snippet.sent: One or two men, in One or two men late teens or early 20s, would then be asked to spy on One or two men village on behalf of what would then become the Islamic State.
article_snippet.sent: Haji Bakr list specific information the 'spies' would be required to obtain, including; 'lists of the most powerful families, the 'spies' source of income, size of rebel brigades and the 'spies' leaders' and potential illegal activities and information which could be used for blackmail in the future.
article_snippet.sent: Haji Bakr also outlines that men loyal to ISIS' would be selected to marry the daughters of the most influential families, in order to 'ensure penetration of the most influential families without the most influential families knowledge,' Der Spiegel writes.
article_snippet.sent: Another document charts a command structure for an internal intelligence organisation, outlining who would spy on
article_snippet.sent: who 'in case they don't do they jobs well.'
highlights_snippet.sent: German magazine uncover 'blueprints for Islamic State' in Syria .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Details 'Stasi-like' system of Islamic State leaders spying on each other .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Outlines how ISIS would infiltrate villages through recruiting spies .