Quotes About Clandestine

In my 20s, when I was a photojournalist in Beijing. I joined an underground art group and put on clandestine exhibitions of my paintings.

You can't be a real spy and have everybody in the world know who you are and what your drink is. That's just hysterically funny.

He that has a secret should not only hide it, but hide that he has it to hide.

The first rule of fight club is, you don't talk about fight club.

RULE 2: IF YOU WANT TO KEEP SOMETHING SECRET, DON'T LEAVE IT LYING AROUND.

Although incomplete, the description of Lisboa's clandestine voyage was consistent with the strait that Magellan eventually explored.

They supplied me the piece and they had one guy right there to take it from me after the thing and get in one car with it and drive away. His only job was to break the piece down and destroy it.

Al-Qa'ida does not follow a traditional command structure, wear uniforms, carry its arms openly, or mass its troops at the borders of the nations it attacks. Nonetheless, it possesses the demonstrated capability to strike with little notice and cause significant civilian or military casualties.

Secret ops by secret forces have a nasty tendency to produce unintended, unforeseen, and completely disastrous consequences. New Yorkers will remember well the end result of clandestine U.S. support for Islamic militants against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan during the 1980s: 9/11.

Hidden secrets never stay hidden long.

If there's a back door somewhere, I take it. I try to get about without being noticed.

What's extraordinary about Cobra Mist, and so much of what went on at Orford, was that the public were completely oblivious to it.

You can't make war against terror. Terror is a technique of battle. It's a tactic that has been employed since time immemorial. You can conduct clandestine action against terrorists, and that must be done.

We will all satisfy our curiosity when we can, which is any time we think no one will catch us.

Unlike other Russian sleeper agents, Dwight Edney didn't have to worry about setting up clandestine meetings with his handler—because his handler was his mother.

There are many difficult things in this world to hide, but a secret is not one of them.

A secret note is secret. There is no reason to sign it.

Because if I'm right about this guy, he's getting better and better at killing. And nobody even knows he exists.

After having so nobly disentangled themselves from the shackles of Parental Authority, by a Clandestine Marriage, they were determined never to forfeit the good opinion they had gained in the World, in so doing, by accepting any proposals of reconciliation that might be offered them by their Fathers – to their farther trial of their noble independence however they never were exposed.

My routine is to create activities for myself unrelated to writing that allow little time for writing. This means that when I do get the chance to write, it is like a stolen luxury, something clandestine and almost forbidden.

For sixty years tens of thousands of clandestine service officers have gathered only the barest threads of truly important intelligence—and that is the CIA's deepest secret.

As Kennan had written in the Long Telegram back in February 1946: "The very disrespect of Russians for objective truth—indeed, their disbelief in its existence—leads them to view all stated facts as instruments for furtherance of one ulterior purpose or another." Now the internet could magnify their clandestine ambitions a millionfold.

I joined the CIA in 1985 as an operations officer in the Clandestine Service.

Concealed within those pages, there hides a wondrous secret.