Quotes About Covert

In reality the workings of your governing system are opaque and covert, while hiding in the chattering spotlight of an ostensible transparency, even though the ultimate objective is clear.

I have a long-standing interest in what I like to think of as 'forbidden knowledge:' methods of unarmed killing, lock picking, breaking and entry, spy stuff, and other things that the government wants only a few select individuals to know.

For me, 'Parmanu' was an awakening of sorts. The film is about a covert mission. It's sometimes unbelievable that we get to recreate a part of history and live an incident that made history and changed the way our country was perceived.

Americans should not expect one battle, but a lengthy campaign, unlike any other we have ever seen. It may include dramatic strikes, visible on TV, and covert operations, secret even in success.

The guerilla must live amongst the people as the fish lives in the water.

They hid it obviously.

I would have loved to have met some former spies, but they don't readily advertise themselves unless they're not living in Moscow, and even then. I'm sure I've met some without realizing it.

There will always be spies. We have to have them. Without them we wouldn't have got Osama bin Laden - it took us years, but it happened.

He that has a secret should not only hide it, but hide that he has it to hide.

A conspiracy is nothing but a secret agreement of a number of men for the pursuance of policies which they dare not admit in public

Unfortunately, this category of secret is itself so secret that it's very existance is secret, and he can't actually reveal it to anyone.

How could your cover be blown in Canada? Why even bother going dark there? How could you tell?

CIA types are so into deceit, deception, double and triple crosses, paranoia, and bullshit, that you never knew what they knew

I never realized the Department of Agriculture was involved in national security. Do you have, like, undercover cows?

Secrecy can be sexy. It's essential to any good mystery novel.

The most famous secret base, I guess, would be Area 51, which a lot of people have heard of as a kind of mythical place. Well, it's a real place.

Soviet spies were among the best in the business, but the semiconductor production process required more details and knowledge than even the most capable agent could steal.

Above all other things, GhostWalkers were enhanced to be able to disappear into the night, fade into darkness and remain undetected by an enemy no matter how close they got to him- or her.

In a time when both rights and reason are under several kinds of open and covert attack, the life and writing of Thomas Paine will always be part of the arsenal on which we shall need to depend.

In the first half of the century, British intelligence was principally a machine for involving the United States in war on the British side.

The secrecy that surrounds any CIA operation makes complete documentation impossible, but the fragmentary information that is now available permits identification of several important examples.

The CIA, an agency designed to operate outside the law, was now free to pursue its vision of a new world, to create new geographies, and to keep that world's details far from the public record. The black world was supercharged with newfound life and purpose.

The black world is much more than an archipelago of secret bases. It is a secret basis underlying much of the American economy.

When a spy sells something entirely new, all he needs to do is recount something you could find in any second-hand book stall.