Quotes About Covert

This is the wonderful thing about espionage, nothing exists any more.

Foreign intelligence services rely on manipulating vulnerabilities over time - like greed, or fear of exposure of a secret - to puppeteer those under their influence into acting in their interests without saying a word.

I love the combination of the words 'spies' and 'Balkans.' It's like meat and potatoes.

Covert operations relied on the unguarded slip, the unconscious choosing of one word over another.

taught to compose a letter on an e-mail account, and then store it as a draft instead of sending it. His colleagues, armed with a password to the same account, could then log in and retrieve the draft e-mail without it ever having been sent, presumably avoiding America's watchful eye.

Komitet Gosudarstvennoi Bezopasnosti – the KGB – trains a thousand agents at a time.

Secret communication achieved by hiding the existence of a message is known as steganography

By depriving Rejewski of the keys, Langer believed he was preparing him for the inevitable time when the keys would no longer be available. He knew that if war broke out it would be impossible for Schmidt to continue to attend covert meetings, and Rejewski would then be forced to be self-sufficient. Langer thought that Rejewski should practice self-sufficiency in peacetime, as preparation for what lay ahead.

Agents she'd named Brylcreem and Cancer Man

The life of spies is to know, not bee known.

I think everybody has a secret life.

The skills of the British intelligence community are a great national asset.

This is a covert operation, people!" he shouted over his bullhorn. "Covert!

I was hiding from them even while I moved among them.

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I'm fascinated by power, especially veiled power. Shadow power. The National Security Agency. The National Reconnaissance Office. Opus Dei. The idea that everything happens for reasons we're not quite seeing.

I recall my first foreign agent meeting was on a dark, moonless night with an agent I'd never met before. When I picked him up, he passed me the intelligence and I passed him extra money for the men he led. It was the beginning of an adventure I had only dreamed of.

I do a lot of things behind the scenes. I do a lot of things that don't hit the headlines.

There's always some kind of hidden logic.

Modern slavery is a hidden crime and notoriously difficult to measure.

At precisely nine in the morning, working with focus and stealth, our entire membership succeeded in simultaneously beheading no one... not a single one of us blew himself/herself up in a crowded public place... in addition, zero (0) planes were flown into buildings. All this was accomplished so surreptitiosly, it attracted little public notice.

Tell him that I shan't interfere in any way! I shall, of course, but he will never know it, so you needn't scruple to say that, dearest!

Covert action should not be confused with missionary work.

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.