Quotes About Covert

A secret society exists, and is living among all of us. They are neither people nor animals, but something in-between.

Secret and terrible things are hidden everywhere in this world.

Better we see them seeing us, because then we can all see together, but when not seeing them seeing us we might not see them seeing us doing what we are doing. MI5 agent Iona von Ustinov (father of actor Peter Ustinov) to MI6 agent Desmond Bristow about the PDVE (Portuguese Secret Police) in 1944.

From the start, Churchill and Fisher resolved to keep the operation so secret that only they and a few other Admiralty officials would ever know it existed.

The dirty little secret of the intelligence world is that much of what you really need to know isn't exactly a secret anyway.

The members of the National Clandestine Service of the CIA are called the collectors of last resort. They are tasked to seek the truth when all other avenues of intelligence collection have failed.

told you, Charlie, the FSB is a more refined version of the KGB.

Because Rakkim knew the seduction of hiding in plain sight. The singular pleasure of blending into the background, of setting the table in the house of the enemy and watching him eat dinner.

from which secret meetings with enemies are born".

If you want to keep a big secret, disguise it as a boring and inconsequential secret rather then try to convince people it is not a secret at all.

Espionage is an effort to find windows into men's souls.

That's one hell of a secret life you live, Miss Abigail.

Operation Margarine

The idea was not to compete, at least not too openly.

But we're all still KGB really. Old wine, new bottles.

What's the best place to hide a car? In an airport long-term lot. Like where's the best place to hide a grain of sand? On the beach

State Department. If it's the Brit or the Russian or the Israeli, then sure, we'll let State take the victory lap, but until we know that for certain, this remains a closely held project." "Is that what you call it now?" "Top secret was already taken.

Special Forces were the armed wing of the CIA, which was the hands-on wing of the State Department

Night School

21. Escuela nocturna (Night School)

Are we going different places?" "Of course we are," she said. "You're looking at the crime scene and I'm going to the DGSE." I nodded. The Direction Générale de la Sécurité Extérieure. The French version of the CIA.

Spies and parents never sleep.

I have a blanket behind the seat, a thick wool one. We can cuddle on the bleachers, and with the blanket wrapped around us no one will know if I sneak a feel every now and then." "I'll know." "God, I hope so. If you don't, then I've either lost my touch or my aim.

Their work was undercover—yet their existence unconcealed. That is how fear works.