Quotes About Covert

I first learned the power of trust in the CIA. There is no question that when I joined the Agency as a covert operations officer, it was still run along the 'old boys' network' model.

I joined the CIA in 1985 as an operations officer in the Clandestine Service.

There is a hidden world behind the one we all see. For all of us.

At age ten, roughly the same percent of girls as boys are overtly aggressive, given to open confrontation when angered. But by age thirteen, a telling difference between the sexes emerges: Girls become more adept than boys at artful aggressive tactics like ostracism, vicious gossip, and indirect vendettas. Boys, by and large, simply continue being confrontational when angered, oblivious to these more covert strategies.

Most people haven't. The army has Delta Force; the navy has the SEALs. The marines have Force Reconnaissance.

MI 16 or the CIA.

people lead their real, most interesting lives under cover of secrecy

And even if you're right, the CIA paid millions of dollars to men trying to kill goats by staring at them," I said.

super-secret covert crews (highly paid workers who would

One is that they allow the individual to create a mental model of perfect performance that shows what ideal execution looks like. The individual can then use this covert model to guide performance. Another is that visualization reduces performance anxiety, allowing the individual to successfully deal with unexpected or troublesome situations.

James Bond had very little to do with the navy at all: it was a convenient front. Bond was secret service from the start ....

In examining the CIA's past and present use of the U.S. media, the Committee finds two reasons for concern. The first is the potential, inherent in covert media operations, for manipulating or incidentally misleading the American public.

I thought using the Ayatollah's money to support the Nicaraguan resistance was a neat idea.

Bowden Cable is the sort of honest and dependable operative that is the backbone of SpecOps. They never win commendations or medals and the public has no knowledge of them at all. They are all worth ten of people like me.

You want me to spy on a National Colour operative?' 'Wow,' she said, 'you got it. I thought I was going to have to explain that one for a lot longer.

Covert action should not be confused with missionary work.

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.

I'm really starting to like all this spy work," Vee said. "When my normal life gets boring, all I have to do is sidle up next to you.

I used to work as a private detective years and years ago.

In the CIA, they recruit you to be an officer, an ops officer, in part due to how well you cope with stress and how well you adapt to new situations.

I was a case officer, otherwise known as an operations officer. My role was to go out and convince Al Qaeda operatives to instead work with us as well as to convince people and officials in foreign governments to work on behalf of the U.S. government secretly.

There are so many secrets in our world.

I belong to the secret six. It's so secret I don't even know the other five.

would this scrap of leather have been mortared into the wall where no one would ever see it? Was it some kind of secret sign?