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Quotes About Undercover

When I was outed on July 14th, 2003, I was, until that moment, covert. That means no one outside of a very small circle knew where I really worked.
~ Valerie Plame
When I was about, I'd say, 18 or 19 years old, I wanted to be a part of the CIA just because they know those intimate secrets... So I was just always into knowing. I like to know things.
~ Michelle Rodriguez
Maybe you have to live under cover for a while before you can find your true character.
~ Hugo Hamilton
It is not just a question of blowing up a building or shooting a prime minister. Such bourgeois horseplay is not contemplated. Our operation must be delicate, refined and aimed at the heart of the Intelligence apparat of the West.
~ Ian Fleming
Head of S., thought Bond. They're certainly giving me the red carpet treatment.
~ Ian Fleming
Major Smythe remembered the hoary euphemism for the Secret Service. He said, with forced cheerfulness, 'Oh. The old firm?
~ Ian Fleming
I took the jacket off, changed my T-shirt for a dark gray tank top, slipped on the tangle of the back sheath, and put the jacket on again. Thugs are us. Great. Just add a super-tight ponytail and loads of mascara, and I'd be ripe to play a supervillain's evil mistress. Ve haf vays of making you gif us your DNA sample.
~ Ilona Andrews
If you spend time in a mental hospital you pick up the drill. You could pass as an orderly, get a job doing it when you got out," Graham said.
~ Thomas Harris
Communists then, dopers now, tomorrow, who knew, maybe the faggots, so what, it was all the same beef wasn't it? Anybody looking like a normal American but living a secret life was always good for a pop if times got slow- easy and cost-effective, that was simple Law Enforcement 101.
~ Thomas Pynchon
If you were doing something in secret and didn't want the attention, what better way to have it ridiculed and dismissed than bring in a few Californian elements?
~ Thomas Pynchon
She didn't care to be reminded how starved she looked, but she could hardly bemoan the fact. It had lent well to her disguise. Though seventeen, she had masqueraded as a stripling lad beneath the very noses of the Yankees. Captain Latimer had not even been suspicious.
~ Kathleen E. Woodiwiss
He deemed the "first level" operatives to be Richard Helms, George Pender, John Philip Nichols, and Ray Cline. The second level included Robert Chasen, E. Howard Hunt, Edwin Wilson, Thomas Clines, and Ted Shackley.
~ Kenn Thomas
Fanny zag ik niet meer. We waren overeengekomen dat ze pas bij me zou komen op de dag voor de aanslag, voor de laatste instructies, want zij moest de bommen klaarmaken en ze aan me geven. De kameraad die ik nog één keer ontmoette, gaf me het precieze tijdstip op: kwart voor twaalf 's avonds. Het was ons onmogelijk de schouwburg binnen te komen, want daar mocht je alleen in op uitnodiging; we moesten dus wachten onder de zuilengalerij.
~ Irene Nemirovsky
'The East' could easily be a TV show.
~ Zal Batmanglij
Behind the scenes there is a secretive, undeclared war of revenge that's already under way.
~ Lara Logan
Ah. That was what he was doing. Once they were beneath the covers, no one would be able to tell if they were making love or simply trying on each other's underwear. Especially if they turned off the lights.
~ Suzanne Brockmann
the truth was that I had become a secret agent because I could not bear for another minute the pointlessness of life in the real world.
~ Charles McCarry
Mug of Joe," grunts Johnny. "Mocha venti with an extra shot for me, no cream," I add. "Anything else?" I shake my head and she wanders off. Johnny looks suspicious. "Since when do you speak Starbucks?" I shrug. "It's not as if I can help it; they've got our office surrounded, and they don't like it if you try to order in English." We wait
~ Charles Stross
Neither of them noticed the pair of polka-dotted knickers hiding behind the ventilation duct overhead, listening patiently and recording everything.
~ Charles Stross
'Mission' was a mind game. The ideal mission was getting in and getting out without anyone ever knowing we were there.
~ Martin Landau
What I learned about the mob wasn't through lectures at the academy.
~ Joseph D. Pistone
Okay, here's the first speech. You guys know what 'black' means, right? It means a program or project that is not acknowledged by the government. People pretend it doesn't exist. The Campus takes that one step further: We really do not exist. There is not a single written document in the possession of any government employee that has a single word about us. From this moment on, you two young gentlemen do not exist.
~ Tom Clancy
the radical is far more interesting when it looks benign and ordinary on the outside.
~ Kim Gordon
Maybe I'm like the vehicle," Eve decided. "Keep it ordinary on the outside, so nobody notices all the hardware inside.
~ J.D. Robb