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Quotes About Undercover

They don't have any idea I work for the Population Police.
~ Margaret Peterson Haddix
Agents she'd named Brylcreem and Cancer Man
~ Sonny Whitelaw
The life of spies is to know, not bee known.
~ George Herbert
I think everybody has a secret life.
~ Joanne Harris
This is a covert operation, people!" he shouted over his bullhorn. "Covert!
~ John Swartzwelder
Fifth column.
~ Emilio Mola
How wonderful of [Jesus] to come back undercover, so that even the people who knew him best had to look, then look again, before they got the crawly feeling that they had seen him somewhere before. It was the perfect setup for people who wanted to know what made him different from anyone else they had met: his ability to reflect their humanity back to them, both familiar and strange, so that they never got tired of searching each other's faces for some sign of him.
~ Barbara Brown Taylor
German soldiers, posted as informers, were found dressed as peasants, even as peasant women. The latter were discovered, presumably in the course of non-military action, by their government issued underwear; but many were probably never caught, it being impossible, General Gourko regretfully admitted, to lift the skirts of every female in East Prussia.
~ Barbara W. Tuchman
stealth. At
~ Barry Lyga
I do a lot of things behind the scenes. I do a lot of things that don't hit the headlines.
~ John Oates
Covert action should not be confused with missionary work.
~ Gian Sardar
I will always treasure the nearly 3 years I spent working for James O'Keefe as an undercover journalist at Project Veritas.
~ Laura Loomer
For a while, many years ago, my job was to get mugged. My job was to walk around Times Square trying to get a mugger to attack me so that someone else could come in and arrest the mugger.
~ Don Winslow
As you can tell from the titles of my books, I like to probe secret organizations, secret subjects. And this sometimes gets me into trouble.
~ Ronald Kessler
because he didn't want it going through regular departmental vetting procedures, not until he knew where it was leading and what it might uncover. He operated this way frequently; it was always better to begin low-profile and let the thing develop slowly, undistorted by the pressures of expectation.
~ Stephen Hunter
Changing one's undergarments on Saturday, for example, was sufficient evidence to justify the arrest and interrogation under torture of a New Christian on charges of being a secret Jew.
~ Jonathan Kirsch
Foaly: Anyone see you come in here? Holly: The FBI, CIA, NSA, DEA, MI6. Oh, and the EIB. Foaly: The EIB? Holly: (smirking) Everyone in the building.
~ Eoin Colfer
agents abroad. Within MI6, Section V played
~ Ben Macintyre
Joseph D. Pistone
~ I like horses.
The work was to be done 'by undercover men, spies and saboteurs, who, if caught, would be neither acknowledged nor defended by their government'. They would be working outside the law and were to borrow their tactics from guerrillas and gangsters like Michael Collins in Ireland and Al Capone in America. In signing up for Section D, they were effectively signing away their lives.
~ Giles Milton
only nobody knows about it but us.
~ Gordon Korman
My mother never liked that I worked undercover. She always worried.
~ Ron Stallworth
Some of your worst gangsters are guys who were very low-key.
~ Mickey Rourke
Casuslarla ilgileniyorsun, öyle deÄŸil mi Bob?" "Bazen evet. Gözlerle. ÇoÄŸunlukla kad?nlar?n gözleriyle. Onlar? birer casuslara benzetiyorum." "Ne aç?dan, Bob?" diye sorar Spurley. "Baz?s? bizi görür, baz?s? görmez. Ama yapt???m?z yanl??lar hiçbirinin gözünden kaçmaz. Sence de öyle deÄŸil mi?
~ Sean Penn