Quotes About Covert

Espionage and counterespionage go together like horse and carriage.

Sabotage and subversion represented the only possible way of striking back and Churchill instructed Dalton to establish – as he called it – a Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare.

only nobody knows about it but us.

Some of your worst gangsters are guys who were very low-key.

The Matrix is top secret. There isn't much that can be said right now.

For something that's supposed to be secret, there is a lot of intelligence history. Every time I read one book, two more are published.

I knew from her deportment she was trained. Therefore likely to be working with an organization, rather than on some sort of private mission.

To all of this the CIA agreed. It subcontracted to Pakistan the job of directing the Afghan rebellion.

siblings ran the overt and covert arms of foreign policy.

For God's sake," one secular Afghan warned the Americans during this period, "you're financing your own assassins!

The image of CIA men traipsing through Mexican villages in search of a fungus that would help them defeat Communism seems outlandish in retrospect. Gottlieb, however, saw the "magic mushroom" the same way he saw LSD and every other substance he was investigating. All were potential weapons of covert war.

On the sly, scoping for love.

A man's most open actions have a secret side to them.

ShadowClan cats are better than most of us at hiding," Firestar pointed out under his breath.

If Adam Schiff is able to review covert operations and intelligence, and if we have to be able to rely on his representations, our whole system is broken.

I've always been baffled by critics of the CIA, who are horrified that it does illegal things. That is the purpose of an intelligence service: to perform illegal acts.

Intelligence services exist to do things that are illegal abroad. They exist to tell lies.

I am still profoundly troubled by the war in Nicaragua. The United States launched a covert war against another nation in violation of international law, a war that was wrong and immoral.

secretly chain-smokes filtered cigarettes

I'm a big believer in 'Trojan horses' - There are certain themes that are more palatable when wrapped in something fun or distracting.

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

Another male patron skulked around the back like he was in the adult movie area at his local video store. Again

Secrets don't like to stay underground.

Espionage, for the most part, involves finding a person who knows something or has something that you can induce them secretly to give to you. That almost always involves a betrayal of trust.