Quotes About Covert

For decades, the men at Area 51 thought they'd take their secrets to the grave. At the height of the Cold War, they cultivated anonymity while pursuing some of the country's most covert projects. Conspiracy theories were left to popular imagination.

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.

Of all those in the army close to the commander none is more intimate than the secret agent; of all rewards none more liberal than those given to secret agents; of all matters none is more confidential than those relating to secret operations.

There's a legion that never was 'listed,That carries no colors or crest.

That meant she had to find a way to slip out of the townhouse again without being caught in her

What are these things that draw toward us, these visitors that hide among us

When it comes to hiding porn, every man is a CIA agent.

For some time I have been disturbed by the way the CIA has been diverted from its original assignment. It has become an operational and at times a policy making arm of the government.

I don't like being rumbled, I like to be invisible.

The best way to not get caught was to not be seen

Interested in some 'undercover' work? And to think, I was actually having a tender thought about you. Do yourself a favor, Steele…Become mute.

Not all dangers are obvious.

When you are dealing with ghosts you mustn't give up all your physical resources until you have definitely ascertained that the thing by which you are confronted, horrid or otherwise, is a ghost, and not an all too material rogue with a light step, and a commodious jute bag for plunder concealed beneath his coat.

A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it.

A mole is a deep penetration agent so called because he burrows deep into the fabric of Western imperialism.

The unofficial force—the Baker Street irregulars.

the Secret Service had unearthed a covert industrial spy network operating at the behest of a German commercial attaché

An intelligent enemy always keeps in the background and remains hidden out of sight.

entre sacristanes procurábamos no soplarnos el cirio.

Decisions concerning covert actions are not often easily reached.

I would be a terrible CIA officer in real life.

Special ops isn't the answer to everything. Special ops is not the main guard.

'Secret Life' is my guilty pleasure.

I don't let the left hand know what the right hand is doing.