Quotes About Covert

In many previously classified documents relating to activities at the base, the words 'Area 51' are conveniently blacked out. There's always a euphemism for it - like 'the test facility' or 'the base' - but never 'Area 51.'

For official purposes, these children do not exist.

I'll be teaching you the nasty, furtive, polite ways to kill people

CONSPIRACY is a plan to do something subversive. Three guys planning a camping trip . . . nah, that's just three guys planning a camping trip. But three guys planning to take a camping trip and rob a bank along the way . . . that's a conspiracy.

Many people knew that Hamilton, Madison, and Jay were the authors, but the trio proclaimed their authorship to only a chosen few and then mostly after the first bound volume was published in March 1788.

insinuating approach a child molester would use? "If you

We got there without being spotted. I pulled her in, then shut the door, pressing my back to it and exhaling like an epileptic pilot who'd just landed a cargo plane full of dynamite.

Only a year after ratifying the UN Convention against Torture, Clinton thus violated one of its key clauses, indicating that Washington would continue to favor covert operations over compliance with international law.

What makes a dangerous woman, however, was not always so apparent, for what is unnoticeable to the human eye is often the most deadly attribute.

Claire's dog and the cat Elv had rescued from the river had a strange alliance. When they thought no one was at home, they sat together on the couch by the window, peering out at the courtyard. As soon as the key turned in the door, they jumped off the couch so that no one would see their attachment. Dogs and cats had their secrets too.

A good thief goes unseen. A truly great one merely goes unnoticed. She

He doesn't look like much,' said Tallow. 'He'd be a poor assassin if he stood out.

Tonight we're going to show you eight silent ways to kill a man.

there, behind that hedge. Keep low. After Mindy makes the call, her

I've always dreamt of having some sort of undercover job. I think it's probably the coolest thing in the world, but ultimately a very lonely life.

Members of al Qaeda and other affiliated organizations spent a great deal of time blending into the populations of several nations around the world and exploring all aspects of life there.

...in the habit of watching every bit of human life I can see about my windows, but I do it so that I am not observed at it.

An intelligence service is, in fact, a stupidity service.

During the Cold War, there was a theory. That one agent, in the right place, at the right time...with the right skills...could be more effective than an army.

Primero temí que fuera muy difícil averiguar algo de estos tipos que andan en los servicios de inteligencia, y toda esa mano.

In the old days, spies had done they'd done because they loved their country, because they believed in what they were doing. But he'd never been given a choice. Nowadays, spies weren't employed. They were used.

You couldn't trust anyone or anything that belonged to the world of espionage.

They didn't just live with secrets. Secrecy surrounded their entire lives.

He was an invisible man with no background and no foreground, and plans, strategies and conspiracies he would have taken with him to the grave.