Quotes About Covert

Thanks to the civil rights movement, overt religious, racial, and ethnic discrimination has become illegal. Covert discrimination persists of course. But prejudice is a hard thing to root out, and racial minorities continue to be subject to overt acts of discrimination. This, however, doesn't mean that Jews are no longer subject to antisemitism.

When you're dealing with espionage and covert affairs, sometimes the secret is more exciting than the knowledge.

The best way to keep intruders from breaking into a safe is to make sure they don't even know it's there.

He glanced up sharply when Holly entered through the pneumatic double doors. "Anybody see you come in here?" Holly thought about it. "The FBI, CIA, NSA, DEA, MI6. Oh, and the EIB." Foaly frowned. "The EIB?" "Everyone in the building." Holly smirked.

As former CIA Director Leon Panetta wrote, covert action "is a hard business of agonizing choices.

In addition, as discussed in chapter 4, working in an intelligence agency is not a job. It's a mission.

There's no marker on the entrance to this entire complex, or on many of the buildings, but if there was I would call this one "Super Secret Spy Swimming Complex", or SSSSC, for short.

It's pretty well known that the CIA has been installing friendly dictators around the world for years.

Stuxnet, Duqu and Flame are not normal, everyday malware, of course. All three of them were most likely developed by a Western intelligence agency as part of covert operations that weren't meant to be discovered. The fact that the malware evaded detection proves how well the attackers did their job.

I come from an African-American family that is predominantly Muslim. I have had to covertly operate in parts of the Middle East and Africa. I've lived a Muslim life and prayed in Mosques, Husseiniyahs, and shrines where needed. One must respect Islam to understand Islam. I've read the Quran through and through a half dozen times.

It doesn't take long to become aware of the presence of the CIA in Laos.

Under the 1991 Intelligence Authorization Act, US intelligence agencies cannot engage in covert actions abroad without a presidential finding that these operations are important to US national security.

I'm pretty good at going incognito.

I feel every person has a 'secret' dark side to them which perhaps they themselves are not aware of.

India should demand an international watch on ISI.

It had all the earmarks of a CIA operation; the bomb killed everybody in the room except the intended target!

The technique called for drilling a small hole in the red lens of a prospective victim's taillight. Barely visible during the day, at night the opening emitted a brilliant white glow, making a car easier to identify and follow. Hector

It's called obfuscation in the interest of deniability. You might say it's our lingua franca.

Disclosure of details in the CIA budget, for example, could reveal major new allocations for a covert operation or new investments in satellites. Too much transparency by a company could expose investments in new products or changes in strategy that would provide advantages to competitors.

SEALs did some of their best work in the dark—and that wasn't just a pickup line. The

It's a special art, asking people to do things, yet making it seem as if you never asked at all.

A trained assassin who babysits.

My crime seemed destined to remain a secret forever.

I speak of peace, while covert enmity under the smile of safety wounds the world