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The teenagers who had signed up to be Lookouts loved hustling in the cold, pretending they were marines on a black op. Most of them had been preparing for postapocalyptic stealth missions since they were old enough to pick up an Xbox controller. Father
You could be the perfect spy. All you need is a cause.
Spy' is such a short ugly word. I prefer 'espionage.' Those extra three syllables really say something.
Hey, you wanna drop back a few paces? Did you forget how spying works? You're supposed to at least aim for unobtrusive. The others pretty much have it down, but you're about as inconspicuous as a drag queen at a Girl Scout meeting.
The Secret Teachings on Covert Activity: Even after you infiltrate someone's house, if you cannot know clearly what is going on inside, you should take appropriate measures to understand the situation.
I think I'm less anonymous than I was.
Popped a handful of pills, washing them down with a bottle of water. It was Yolanda. The officers and BH team were standing not twenty feet away from her and didn't recognize her. They were laughing and joking. I need to get there, now. This isn't a joke.
I did surveillance a lot, which sounds exciting, but it never was.
I am no longer able to be anonymous.
Alone, the world offers itself freely to us. To be unmasked, it has no choice.
The life of spies is to know, not bee known.
I was never a spy. I was with the OSS organization. We had a number of women, but we were all office help.
As a rule, spies don't like dealing with cops. Covert ops are illegal by definition. If they were legal they wouldn't need to be covert.
We're all spies. What do we have if not our rumors, our half-truths, our fragments taken out of context?
I am alone, and I am a Mask.Mask-- Sabaa Tahir
I'd rather be a criminal underground than a secret police.
All my life I've been hiding.
A deep-cover squad tried to infiltrate the far left by posing as politically radicalized Vietnam veterans well supplied with guns and drugs. Four or five of them liked their new lives so much that they never came back.
Blind and naked as an unearthed mole, uncomprehending.
Do not hide behind any mask
Being in the shadows is no way to live, but sometimes its' the only way to find out who you are.
The 'Love Undercover' series features two cops, a street rat, and a construction worker as the lead heroes.
Is there a reason we're taking the alley?" he asked. "The air is a tad ripe out here."
"Unfriendly eyes out front."
"Enforcers?"
"A ten-year-old boy."
"Oh, yes. Terrifying."
"He's someone's spy," she said.
There's always been something illicit about the way I work. I'm photographing people I don't know, when nobody else is home - there's a necessary degree of secrecy.
Each time this identity announces itself, someone or something cries: Look out for the trap, youre caught. Take off, get free, disengage yourself.
Stasi trained "fraternal" intelligence organizations, such as Cuba's DGI.
A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it.
What exactly does the I in FBI stand for?" ~Maggie Mae Castro
I was part of a sting operation. We busted some bees.
You're not hiding, but you're sitting in a gay bar at dinnertime. You're not hiding, but you're wearing that suit like it's armor.
Someone must have talked plenty, because on an afternoon in June 2008, Sarvannantha Pereira was detained by men who didn't say who whey were. They would call it an arrest. It felt more like an abduction.
I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that, where I was flying, made what I was doing spying.
I was caught before I even knew I was being hunted,
Who's the informant, Ennis?" He wiggled a battery cable. "Not sure. They're protecting his identity like the Pope protects perverts. Why?
I enjoyed being anonymous.
Covert operations relied on the unguarded slip, the unconscious choosing of one word over another.
Once you've lived the inside-out world of espionage, you never shed it. It's a mentality, a double standard of existence.
I've always loved spy stories. Who can resist?
For the evaders, avoiders, dodgers, and side-steppers.
You probably have a good reason for hiding.
May you work through it and find your inner lion.
Please don't arrest me."
"Listen to me, I'm not going to arrest you, ok? I'm not a cop."
"Are you sure?"
"Am I sure I'm not a cop? yes, I'm sure."
"You could be undercover.
There's a big part of me that would love to be a secret agent. But if I showed up to do an investigation and interrogate someone now, they wouldn't be able to take me seriously. I've ruined that for myself.
I'll be real discreet, Tank said.
As discreet as a six-foot-six, no-neck guy weighing three hundred and fifty pounds, all dressed in black SWAT clothes, with a Glock holstered at his side could be.
I quite like being under the radar.
As in the case of the economy, an 'invisible hand' will often be a better cultivator of ideas and allocator of effort. The challenge for intelligence officials in the Information Age is to understand how to integrate these indirect mechanisms into their operations
It was funny how I could feel all alone and under surveillance at the same time.
I am free, anonymous man. My flights and falls occurred while I was wearing a magical cap of of invisibility, my successes and sins sailed on in invisible corvettes, and films and books flew off into the abyss in invisible strongboxes. I am free, anonymous.
I'm a very secretive person.
I wasn't a spy. I'd have been spotted in five seconds. Yes, I was in intelligence, but that covered a multitude of things.
Enemy: A friend whose mask has fallen
Cops are good at keeping secrets.
I've been stalked.
You know you're caught, but you can't escape . . .
Hiding is existing in a constant state of alarm, remaining undiscovered, and inferior.
I can't be left unsupervised.
I guard my existence, sheltered by distance. Hidden and masked I parade, everyone oblivious to the grand charade.
Please don't tell your family that I'm here," he says softly. "I want to keep a low profile."
"Done," I say, knowing that the story of how I got caught peeping in his back window like a weirdo will be an easy secret to keep.
Never hide who you are,Hide-- Kim Harrison
My mission, which I chose to accept, is to infiltrate the enemy. Jack and
Alex are the enemy. I pause, wondering how Demos defines infiltration.
'Not that way', Alicia answers.
Twenty years ago, two of the CIA's best double-agents had been murdered in their own home on Christmas Eve. The husband had been killed first, and the wife had been raped repeatedly before she'd been beaten to death. The two children were never found.
So I'm in the American Secret Service? Damn."
"It was all reported in the press the next day.
Naked I felt as if my soul was exposed, my thoughts could be read. In the mask I felt protected. I eased the elastic strap over my head, adjusted the fascia to my cheekbones and glanced again at the mirror. The acid in my tummy had gone. Masked I am me. Masked I can do anything.
I am a spy. Not some rooftop-jumping archer, shield-wielding super-soldier, or shiny-metal philanthrobot. I need to make that clear on my business card. Espionage is shadow warfare. Cold combat. Does anything about this feel cold to you?
Being a spy was something like standing on the south shore fending off a hurricane with a $2 poncho and an umbrella.
It is a tragicomic fact that our proper upbringing has become an ally of the secret police. ( ... ) The "Tell the truth!" imperative drummed into us so automatically that we feel ashamed of lying even to a secret policeman.
Spying is a like a game of chess: Sometimes you have to withdraw, sometimes you have to sacrifice one of your pieces to win - preferably a knight rather than a king or queen.
Only by concealing our identities can we shed the masks we have to wear at school, at work, even at home - everywhere there is surveillance, policing, punishment - masks that are increasingly indistinguishable from ourselves.
Greetings, cybernuts! This is I.B. Nosey, your official unofficial reporter!
Few secrets can escape an investigator who has opportunityand liceense to undertake such a quest and skill to follow it up.
I hope that if I ever disappear, people don't look for me based on the last websites I visited. Kind of an awkward press conference for my parents. Officer, do you have any leads? Well, based on Mr. Finnegan's computer entries, we think he was abducted by Sorority Sluts.
It has become a secret
habit, me, the city skyline, the
comfort of the dark, the
anonymity, and the
knowledge that up here
nobody knows who I am
I clearly was not cut out for undercover work; we hadn't even gone two blocks before Trace realized he had a tail.
All these years I'd thought being a spy was challenging. Turns out, being a girl is the tricky part.
God, what a ghastly enterprise to be in, though
and what an odd way to achieve success. I'm an exhibitionist who wants to hide, but is unsuccessful at hiding; therefore, somehow I succeed.
Got a buddy in the NOPD who says there's a rumor you're with some private agency. Who? (Brady)
And I slice open chickens at midnight to sacrifice to the great gods of Santeria. (Terri)
Everyone is guilty of something or has something to conceal. All one has to do is look hard enough to find what it is.
The trick to not being discovered until it is too late is to become part of the expected surroundings. Stealth is more the art of blending in with the background than sneaking through dark shadows.
Yes, you are under surveillance. Yes, it is odious. Yes, it should bother you. And yes, it's hard to know how to avoid it.
Since spies must survive by telling lies, it can be hard to know when they are telling the truth.
I don't want to hide. If I get arrested, I get arrested.
For nearly sixty years I have eavesdropped with impunity on the lives of people who do not exist.
Waiting.
That's always what being a spy comes down to, isn't it?
Everywhere man is in disguise! Who is who is unknown! Try to enter the mask and find out who the man inside really is!
Agents of disruption, subversion, sabotage and disinformation tunnelers and smugglers, listeners and forgers, trainers and recruiters and talent spotters and couriers and watchers and seducers, assassins and balloonists, lip readers and disguise artists.
I'm not a spy, which is the real question
To the CIA, everyone's an outsider.
Spies are the ears and eyes of Princes.
FAKE Mask... - That's when we are honest... or probably not...
More likely contradictory!
(FACEBOOK = MASK)
I want you back here now. I want you next to me now. I cannot believe that my family, your brother, all our friends, and an entire police force can't keep tabs on one twenty-six year old graphic designer who thinks he's fuckin' Batman.
Detective Sam Kage in A Matter Of Time (vol 2 or part 4)
I've been abducted and probed in the anus.
On purpose.
I'm very underground.
Seventh graders jumped onto the backs of FBI agents. Seniors squared off against the CIA.
You are being watched.
Big Brother is watching ... look busy.
The world has changed, the CIA is having to change, and again, the challenge for someone like me as a spy novelist is to write realistically about where they're actually going.
It's Officer, actually. Where are you
Slightly embarrassing admission: Even when I was a kid, I used to have these little spy books, and I would, like, see what everybody was doing in my neighborhood and log it down.
Well, I've got nothing to hide. Absolutely nothing.
Hugely enjoyable and insightfulGosling has produced the perfect combination of rigorous research and lightness of prose to create a book that will transform every reader into a super snooper.
Ty: Were you running away?
Kit: I was going for a walk.
Ty: No, you're lying. You were running away.
Kit: Why do you care what I do?
Ty: I'm a Shadowhunter. We help people.
Kit: Now you're lying
Ty: I need you. You might be surprised to hear that.
No matter how well you think you've hidden, you'll always leave behind a trace. And the more you try to hide that trace, the more obvious and troublesome it will become.