Quotes About Covert

Honor among thieves, perhaps. Honor among spies, never.

We Sith are an unseen opposition, Tenebrous had told his young apprentice. A phantom menace. Where the Sith once wore armor, we now wear cloaks. But the Force works through us all the more powerfully in our invisibility. For the present, the more covert we remain, the more influence we can have. Our revenge will be achieved not through subjugation but by contagion.

Well, they can't have done it to every camera in the neighborhood," Loughlin said. "We'll pick them up.

Secret ops by secret forces have a nasty tendency to produce unintended, unforeseen, and completely disastrous consequences. New Yorkers will remember well the end result of clandestine U.S. support for Islamic militants against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan during the 1980s: 9/11.

TacOps is a unit which breaks into homes and offices to plant bugging devices. They get into mafia hangouts, they go into embassies, they go into terrorist hangouts, and they describe themselves as court-sanctioned burglars.

When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isn't going to leak.

Both cyber and old-fashioned human-intelligence industrial espionage has occurred for decades without any significant retribution by the United States.

The men and women of the CIA are a national treasure.

A chief of station is the head of all intelligence operations in any given country.

One of the things that distinguishes the CIA from the State Department is that the CIA is both asked to, and authorized to, steal secrets. So if the question is whether the CIA steals secrets, the answer is yes.

With stealth technology, the U.S. could spy on its Cold War adversaries without running the risk of getting caught.

If there's a back door somewhere, I take it. I try to get about without being noticed.

The aim of a foreign intelligence service is to find and convince individuals to help them achieve intelligence objectives.

What's extraordinary about Cobra Mist, and so much of what went on at Orford, was that the public were completely oblivious to it.

It's always interesting to play a character that obviously has a secret.

Now," he said, snapping the black blade open, "we have destroyed the teeth, crushed the face, and obliterated the fingerprints. And we have not been caught. We can therefore proceed with the first stage of carcass disposal. Fluid drainage." Amanda placed her hands together so quickly that they almost clapped. "Ooh," she said.

The cardinal principle was: 'A double agent should, as far as possible, actually live the life and go through the motions of a genuine agent.

Women have always been spies.

I'd be a covert operative whose top-secret mission is to make stuff up.

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The key to good eavesdropping is not getting caught.

Like a church bell, a coffin, and a vat of melted chocolate, a supply closet is rarely a comfortable place to hide.

There are many difficult things in this world to hide, but a secret is not one of them.

The trick to following someone without getting caught is to follow somebody who doesn't think they're being followed.