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Quotes About Undercover

What other stuff do they teach you at federal agent school?" I ask. It shouldn't bother me that he's fitting in so well. So what if he's faking it? Good for him. I guess what bothers me is him faking it better than I am.
~ Holly Black
The thing about undercover work is that instead of laying low and trying to stay out of trouble, you basically walk around with your stick and jab it into every beehive you can find just to see what flies out.
~ Linda Castillo
At various times in my undercover career I had either a full beard, a short-cropped beard, Fu Manchu, a plain simple moustache or just a goatee. We did that - generally we would have a look that we would maintain for anywhere from 3 to 6 months.
~ Ron Stallworth
I always carried in my breast or hip pocket a video camera disguised as a pen. It was linked to software whose algorithms alerted me that the body language of a person approaching was consistent with that of an impending attack. I also used it to record crowds in public when I was transporting principals, to see if faces of passersby in one locale turn up in another. A
~ Jeffery Deaver
If he'd expected to be pampered and coddled through his undercover assignments, he would have gone to work for the CIA.
~ Julie James
Interested in some 'undercover' work? And to think, I was actually having a tender thought about you. Do yourself a favor, Steele…Become mute.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Generally, I don't like publicity on docs in progress, much less ones that are only in development; I've always tried to stay under the radar in terms of any press, especially with regard to the subjects of the film. I don't want them to be thinking about the film or funding or what the public reaction is going to be.
~ Steve James
since 9/11 the FBI has instigated more jihadist terrorist "plots" in the States than al-Qaeda or any of its affiliated groups—thirty versus ten. Undercover
~ Peter Bergen
I am merely an operative for an outside government, who adopted an undercover persona and entered restricted territory through subterfuge for the purpose of discreetly gathering information that might be of use to my superiors.
~ Peter David
Y durante buena parte del tiempo, la sabiduría ha tenido que trabajar en secreto, susurrando sus palabras, moviéndose como un espía a través de los lugares humildes del mundo mientras las cortes y los palacios están ocupados por sus enemigos.
~ Philip Pullman
I play a government agent in '24.'
~ Mandira Bedi
The real war happened when you weren't looking.
~ Jim Butcher
I am a spy, a sleeper, a spook, a man of two faces.
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
I am a spy, a sleeper, a spook, a man of two faces. Perhaps
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
Even secret armies and political fronts needed clerks
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
Christians behave like spies, living in one world while our deepest allegiance belongs to another.
~ Philip Yancey
Nameless has no credit cards. He rarely carries identification of any kind, not even in false names.
~ Dean Koontz
oh, wait." Turning, he seized the wig he'd taken off earlier from his desk and thrust it into Grey's hands. "Disguise," he said, and smiled briefly. "You rather take the eye, John. Best if people don't notice you on the street." He snatched up the hat and crammed it on his own bare head, then unlocked the door and pulled it open, impatiently gesturing Grey ahead of him.
~ Diana Gabaldon
Noncommunist ranks must be infiltrated, penetrated, and subverted. The success of the communist mission depends on capturing the enemy's stronghold from within.
~ J. Edgar Hoover
the SOE was formed to carry out operations seen as being too politically explosive, illegal, or unconscionable to be embraced by the wider British establishment.
~ Unknown
I'm a Navy SEAL. Nobody will hear me coming.
~ Unknown
The stool pigeon is the coming race.
~ Jack Black
What was her disguise? For once, she [Verity] did not know. She was the female Mr. Twaddle-Thum dressed as a clerk pretending to be a reporter. If any of the staff recognized her as Robert Lark, none of them indicated it by look or deed.
~ Unknown
What if they find the car?" "They'll find it, and they'll throw a blanket over Panama City Beach. You've got to be careful. After dark, try to sneak into a drugstore and buy some hair dye. Cut your hair extremely short and dye it blond." "Blond!" "Or red. I don't give a damn.
~ John Grisham