Quotes About Covert

All these secret if-I-tell-you-about-them-I-have-to-kill-you-and-cut-your-head-off-and-stick-it-in-a-safe organizations

The Cellar had been founded by Presidential Decree in order to legally do the illegal.

It's known as the Cellar

For years the CIA had run a 3,000-man top secret covert army in Afghanistan. The CTPT, short for Counterterrorism Pursuit Teams, were Afghans paid, trained and controlled by the CIA. They were the best Afghan fighters, the cream of the crop. They killed or captured Taliban insurgents and often went into tribal areas to eliminate them. They conducted dangerous and highly controversial cross-border operations into neighboring Pakistan.

Intelligence. Cunning. Secrecy. These are the tools of war.

Kill with a borrowed knife.

they supposed to do once they got him there?" The CIA operative asked the mobster and then replied, "Apparently, he had his own people there who would get him the rest of the way into Europe.

A believable falsehood must always be in place before conducting a clandestine operation.

Carlton signaled and merged into a faster-moving lane. "Jacobson gave us his file with everything on the

Foras Road has a sordid reputation (…) Old crones sat in doorways, while their daughters were pushed out to earn money. It is intriguing that a society which is very covert with sexuality should be so straightforward about prostitution.

The man in 4B wondered if he could have your autograph. He told me his daughter is a huge fan." Fan? What the hell? Dylan lifted himself up and looked over the back of his seat. Since when did covert operators have fans?

When I did counterintelligence investigations, they rarely saw the inside of a courtroom. That wasn't the goal of them.

For me, there has always been the irresistible lure of a secret.

limiting the CIA's ability to pursue covert operations, and eventually dismantling

the FBI chief also held secret talks with congressional isolationists whose campaigns received covert contributions from the German government and who did their utmost to keep the United States out of the antifascist war.

things) in deep penetration into target territory, information-gathering and withdrawal unseen. Rumours had long persisted that part of London's extensive help to Lagos had been the presence of our Special Forces. Political denial had always been

conspirational tradecraft

It had to be tonight and it had to be moonless, because that was the only way a dangerous, borderline-psychotic insertion like this could ever possibly work.

We got there without being spotted. I pulled her in, then shut the door, pressing my back to it and exhaling like an epileptic pilot who'd just landed a cargo plane full of dynamite.

The U.S., often in secret, carries out counterterrorism missions all the time, with drones in places like Yemen and Somalia.

I wasn't a spy. I'd have been spotted in five seconds. Yes, I was in intelligence, but that covered a multitude of things.

Any known attempt at proselyting would be instantly amenable at a criminal tribunal and would probably be punished by the death of the proselyte and the banishment of the missionary. All efforts must be conducted in private and are therefore very limited.

The SAS is the most elite of the special forces in the world. They are not people who go out and advertise; they keep it inside. They don't want anybody to know about them.

America failed during the late 1990s to forge an effective antiterrorism partnership with India, whose regional interests, security resources, and vast Muslim population offered great potential for covert penetrations of Afghanistan.