In the intelligence community, a rumor was almost as good as a confirmation.

The CIA’s offices in London were no secret to the MI6. In fact, the two agencies were practically kissing cousins.

I’m the Deputy Director for Operations.” “Congratulations. A title so classified you can’t even list it on your resumé when they fire you.

The denials, if they need be given, could better be given with sincerity, and they could only be feigned if you didn’t know them at all.

It seems whenever the government doesn’t want anyone to know something, it is all of a sudden critical to national security.

C’ in Russian is pronounced like your ‘S’, so first letter in CIA stands for ‘sneaky.

Robert’s realm was the undercurrent of the illegitimate space of covert operations – the dirty little (and big) things the government does but doesn’t want to admit to.