Quotes About Covert

When you are part of a cartel, you don't have a Costco card that says, 'I'm a card-carrying member of the cartel.'

When I was 12 years old, I was obsessed with codes, conspiracies, and secret messages.

Should we use code names?" Hi popped up from the steps on which he'd been sitting. "Of course we should. Inside, refer to me as Rex Condor." Hi winced in surprise as Shelton smacked the back of his head. "You?" Shelton shrugged. "Had to be done. Ben's too far away." Ben gave Shelton a thumbs-up. My eyes rolled skyward.

He deemed the "first level" operatives to be Richard Helms, George Pender, John Philip Nichols, and Ray Cline. The second level included Robert Chasen, E. Howard Hunt, Edwin Wilson, Thomas Clines, and Ted Shackley.

Once Akash set me up with invisibility and taught me some basic killing skills,

On every front, the CIA was turning its guerrillas into a far smarter and more lethal fighting force.

Better keep such things decently buried.

It's all someone else's secret.

I planned killing Mis before he could talk. I planned it secretly—as secretly as I could—so secretly I didn't dare tell it to myself.

There still exists today a mysterious colony out in the countryside called Dignidad, a Nazi camp that is completely out of bounds, as if it were an independent nation; no government has been able to dismantle it because it is believed that it has the covert protection of the armed forces.

Israelis cannot enter Iran, so Israel, Iranian officials believe, has devoted huge resources to recruiting Iranians who leave the country on business trips and turning them into agents.

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.

Secret operations are essential in war; upon them the army relies to make its every move.

some classes of people use hidden options and harm the collective without anyone realizing.

Why did they call them sneakers if it was so hard to sneak in them?)

That which hides in plain sight is the most difficult thing to find.

a man so wrapped in secrecy that his shadow doesn't have a high enough security clearance to stick to his heels.

Neither of them noticed the pair of polka-dotted knickers hiding behind the ventilation duct overhead, listening patiently and recording everything.

two by six Joyce below the floor boards.

'Mission' was a mind game. The ideal mission was getting in and getting out without anyone ever knowing we were there.

Okay, here's the first speech. You guys know what 'black' means, right? It means a program or project that is not acknowledged by the government. People pretend it doesn't exist. The Campus takes that one step further: We really do not exist. There is not a single written document in the possession of any government employee that has a single word about us. From this moment on, you two young gentlemen do not exist.

midnight kill. "Next, we have to see

Covertly influencing decision processes such as that the resulting decision is aligned with higher-order desires may actually enhance autonomy.

By definition, intelligence deals with the unclear, the unknown, the deliberately hidden. What the enemies of the United States hope to deny we work to reveal.