Quotes About Covert

That's top secret." Mrs. Jones gestured with one hand. "But I'll tell you anyway.

They yawned and stretched in secret unison in their adjoining chambers

Bush and Blair combined their efforts to deceive both nations in a carefully coordinated manner, more so than anyone is willing to point out in the media.

A major theme in all my books is that the CIA is not only the first line of defense but they should also be the first line of offense.

guess all spies know how to hot-wire cars. For them the world was one huge,

I distrust official charity.All charity should be done by stealth.

Given the array of correspondents—Abiah Root, Mrs Holland, Sam Bowles, Maria Whitney, Mabel Todd herself and many minor figures—a distorting omission is the correspondence with Susan. Nowhere is she mentioned. It's a common temptation to editorial power to contrive a bias, sometimes in covert ways. Here the agenda is all too plain.

T]he whole character of secret Intelligence ... is that nothing should ever be done simply if there are devious ways of doing it.

And shy as a coon in the daylight.

Behind the man's back Jonah and I give each other a high five.

She wasn't here to gawk. She was an infiltrator, a sneak, an ugly. And she had a mission.

More history is made by secret handshakes than by battles, bills and proclamations.

More history's made by secret handshakes than by battles, bills, and proclamations.

I've been a spy for almost all of my adult life - I don't like being in the spotlight.

Antonio J. Méndez

Antonio J. Méndez

Allan Dulles said it best: "Any intelligence service worth its salt can make the other fellow's currency." In other words, every nation needs to have its own airtight security measures, while at the same time be actively working in secret to reverse engineer those of the enemy faster than they can invent them.

Exfiltrations are like abortions," I said. "You don't need one unless something's gone wrong. If you need one, don't try to do it yourself. We can give you a nice, clean job.

For didn't everyone have secret parts and shadows?

The film 'The Queen' came about with a producer saying to me that he wanted me to write about the circumstances behind Diana's death. I think he was hoping that I would come up with some journalistic scoop that would identify an MI5 covert plot.

To understand how black projects began, and how they continue to function today, one must start with the creation of the atomic bomb. The men who ran the Manhattan Project wrote the rules about black operations. The atomic bomb was the mother of all black projects, and it is the parent from which all black operations have sprung.

If you've never met a Navy SEAL and you ran into one at a bar, you probably still wouldn't know he's a Navy SEAL.

I don't want to put my game plan out there for everybody to see it and read it and teams can scheme. It just doesn't make a lot of sense.

The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves.