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Quotes About Covert

On the existence and threat of modern-day secret societies: We are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence . . . building a tightly knit, highly efficient machine that combines military, diplomatic, intelligence, economic, scientific and political operations. —JOHN F. KENNEDY, FROM A SPEECH GIVEN AT THE WALDORF-ASTORIA HOTEL ON APRIL 27, 1961
~ James Rollins
Are you familiar with Project MK-Ultra?
~ Douglas Preston
There was, of course, central heating, but it was not apparent.
~ Agatha Christie
that out loud? "Repeat, Agent Vail?" "I said, 'A lot of sittin' for the next six minutes.'" The last thing she needed was to have her radio transmission played back in front of everyone; she'd be ridiculed for weeks. "Unit Five approaching, Queens Boulevard and Forty-eighth." Mike Hartman's voice sounded
~ Alan Jacobson
Agent Vail. I'm in position, thirty feet from the bank's entrance. I've got a visual on three well-armed men dressed in black clothing, wearing
~ Alan Jacobson
Oh, I can keep many secrets, so I would be a phenomenal secret agent. I love secrets.
~ Dwayne Johnson
Cyber war takes place largely in secret, unknown to the general public on both sides.
~ Noah Feldman
The panther is sleek. The panther is sneaky. The panther is covert. Meanwhile, the gorilla will show up and bang on his chest and make noises to warn you about what is about to happen if you continue to cross the line.
~ Winston Duke
Let's remember, the CIA's job is to go out and create wars.
~ Jesse Ventura
Without a clear picture of where the military's covert forces are operating and what they are doing, Americans may not even recognize the consequences of and blowback from our expanding secret wars as they wash over the world.
~ Nick Turse
Please, a definition: A hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.
~ Ralph Ellison
GB officers constituted the main force at Stone and were selected from among the baddest-ass military units—SEALs, Marine Force Recon, Air Force Parajumpers, and the Army's Combat Applications Group (formerly know as Delta Force). They wore civilian clothes and were equipped with the most advanced light weaponry on the planet.3
~ Ralph Pezzullo
Our plans for 'Superman?' I can't say. This is the most super secret thing ever. It's like working for the government, like I'm on a covert mission.
~ Zack Snyder
Guerrilla war is a kind of war waged by the few but dependent on the support of many.
~ B. H. Liddell Hart
I've always wanted to be a spy, and frankly I'm a little surprised that British intelligence has never approached me.
~ Elizabeth Hurley
Atención -decía Bobby Thompson-. Éste es uno de los lobos que camina entre ustedes.
~ Richard Bachman
The essence of control is to remain hidden from view
~ Richard K. Morgan
The science of systematics has long been affected by profound philosophical preconceptions, which have been all the more influential for being usually covert, even subconscious.
~ George Gaylord Simpson
The only way to Cuba is with the CIA.
~ Phil Ochs
seventy to eighty former members of their secret police that the British left behind undetected in Philadelphia.
~ Willard Sterne Randall
Secrets...are the very root of cool.
~ William Gibson
Managerialism has become the pretext for creating a new covert form of feudalism, where wealth and position are allocated not on economic but political grounds - or rather, where every day it's more difficult to tell the difference between what can be considered 'economic' and what is 'political.
~ David Graeber
state secret matter.
~ David I. Kertzer
as the taint of getting involved with anything CIA. You never got more than half the story from them, and half of that was a lie.
~ David L. Robbins