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Quotes About Covert

It is the nature of a business community that it deals with the covert forms of power in economic life and to be insensible to the significance and the complexity of more overt forms of power, even as it is insensible to the motive of the lust for power as an element in human nature.
~ Reinhold Niebuhr
Marco was an intelligent intelligence officer.
~ Richard Condon
Hell is a conspiracy, and the first requirement of a conspiracy is that it remain underground.
~ Richard F. Lovelace
He chose not to work through the limited official channels that the Army and the OSRD had devised to constrict the flow of information. "I wanted to let Oppenheimer know what we were doing. Someone in the Bureau of Ships knew one of the people in the [Navy] Bureau of Ordnance who was going out to Los Alamos. I remember that I met the man at the old Warner Theater here in Washington, up in the balcony—real cloak and dagger stuff.
~ Richard Rhodes
Annabeth?" Percy said again. "You're planning something. You've got that I'm-planning-something look." "I don't have an I'm-planning-something look." "Yeah, you totally do. Your eyebrows knit together and your lips press together and—" "Do you have a pen?" she asked him.
~ Rick Riordan
He put his finger to his lips. I'm incognito. Call me Fred.
~ Rick Riordan
The town council met at the school. That meant we knew exactly how to sneak in.
~ Kelley Armstrong
underground
~ Ken Follett
No quería que la gente sospechase que estaban en connivencia. Todavía no.
~ Ken Follett
include: Patience. The need for patience is, perhaps, the greatest difference between light infantry and line infantry. Light infantry operations proceed much more slowly, primarily due to the requirement for light infantry to operate stealthily. It takes time to discover targets, reconnoiter suitable ambush sites, and move covertly. Training must reflect this. The
~ William S. Lind
Moral judgements are singularly out of place in espionage. —Graham Greene
~ David Poyer
I was like a chocolate in a box, looking well behaved and perfect in place, all the while harboring a secret center.
~ Deb Caletti
An intelligence service is the ideal vehicle for a conspiracy.
~ Allen Dulles
I found that our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never, or had very seldom, produced any worthwhile political or economic intelligence on the Soviet Union.
~ Aldrich Ames
compound, the American Secret Service agents
~ Jay Winik
This is a really lame exchange of hidden messages.
~ Jeff Strand
The difficulty recognizing this problem early in your relationship with him is due to the fact that the deeper issues of narcissism can exist behind many different personas. A covert type of NPD person may appear shy, with a quiet authority. You, therefore, assume this individual has a quality of humility and expect that he will be sensitive to your feelings.
~ Eleanor D. Payson
have a problem with ageism, overt and especially covert. My feeling about a person's age is that it's a serving suggestion. It's up to you what you do with it: take it as offered, modify it, or ignore it altogether.
~ Elizabeth Berg
to be kept a secret from the military
~ Elizabeth Peters
Excuse me, Abigail, but whose shift did she get away during?' Townsend asked with a glare. 'Excuse me, Townsend, but who was supposed to booby-trap the doors?' 'I'm an agent of Her Majesty's Secret Service,' Townsend said, indignant. 'I do not do booby traps.
~ Ally Carter
It is a little-known fact about covert operations that you will spend a lot of time with people you can't really trust. They may be traitors and liars. We call them assets or informants. But mostly, in those days, I called him Zach.
~ Ally Carter
That's the thing about spies. Most of the secrets we keep are from each other.
~ Ally Carter
Macey couldn't decide whether to be intrigued that Hale was walking around with a state-of-the-art covert communications device or be jealous because she'd been caught without one of her own.
~ Ally Carter
Quietly, Macey went through her options. Even though the masked men were asking for cell phones, the gunmen were making so much noise that she was sure someone had already called 911. The obvious exits were blocked, and the elevators had no doubt been disabled. The men moved with confidence and order, but they weren't trying to be quiet. There was nothing covert at all about this operation. Unlike the boy beside her.
~ Ally Carter