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Quotes About Undercover

If you're undercover for two or three years, I think you lose your private life.
~ Baran Odar
I try to stay under the radar.
~ Jason Patric
If I want to go out to a restaurant with some friends, I'm more than happy that we go in under the radar, have a little evening on our own.
~ David Jason
I like to fly under the radar.
~ Lynsi Torres
I've done quite a few gigs for the military. Some of them had to be kept under the wire. I'm a three year Army veteran myself, and I'm always available to do stuff like that. I've even done some things for the British military, too.
~ Michael Buffer
When you wear a wire, you're always in danger.
~ Joseph D. Pistone
I phoned the KKK Grand Wizard David Duke in Louisiana and asked why my membership was being delayed. He said my application was on his desk and promised to deal with it personally. It was the first of many conversations with David Duke. We talked about his family, the weather, and about his political ambitions.
~ Ron Stallworth
How I conned the Grand Wizard, David Duke, and his coterie of followers... It has defined me in ways I never could have imagined.
~ Ron Stallworth
Spy novels are traditionally about lone wolves, but how many people actually live like that?
~ Alan Furst
I excelled in finding and acquiring secret information that I obtained in brush passes, dead drops, or in meetings in dusty alleys of third world capitals.
~ Gina Haspel
I would love to do espionage like 'The Thomas Crown Affair,' that kind of thing. And I've always had a fascination with madams. It's interesting to me what that institution is like, how those women are.
~ Lynn Whitfield
When it comes to hiding porn, every man is a CIA agent.
~ S. A. Sachs
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
Looking at each other like, What the fuck's going on here? We big-time undercover supercops.
~ John Edgar Wideman
For one month, Evan Ratliff shed his identity and tried to disappear.
~ John Heilemann
A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it.
~ John le Carre
A mole is a deep penetration agent so called because he burrows deep into the fabric of Western imperialism.
~ John le Carre
One does not call down archangels in my city, Detective, if one cares to go unnoticed.
~ Elizabeth Bear
The unofficial force—the Baker Street irregulars.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Several years later, after the Freedom of Information Act was passed, it was revealed that Cotton had been working undercover for the police.
~ Assata Shakur
I would be a terrible CIA officer in real life.
~ Claire Danes
While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.
~ Samuel Dash
Covert operations relied on the unguarded slip, the unconscious choosing of one word over another.
~ Sara Sheridan
I wear a lot of wigs as Jacques Mesrine. He'd wear multiple wigs and take them off one at a time to rob three banks in one hour.
~ Vincent Cassel