Covert Terms

Question 1

Access Agent

Answer 1

Provides access to other potential agents by providing profiling information that can help lead to recruitment into an intelligence service.

Question 2

Action Directe

Answer 2

An underground group in France.

Question 3

Agent

Answer 3

A person under the control of an intelligence agency or security service

Question 4

Agent Provocateur

Answer 4

A deep-cover agent who feigns enthusiastic support while tempting the target to incriminate himself/herself through action or words.

Question 5

AIVD

Answer 5

Netherlands General Intelligence and Security Service, the Algemene Inlichtingen.

Question 6

ASIO

Answer 6

Australia’s national security intelligence service.

Question 7

Assaulter

Answer 7

A member of a SWAT team responsible for making a forced entry

Question 8

Backstop

Answer 8

An arrangement between two persons for the express purpose of substantiating a cover story or alibi.

Question 9

Biographic Leverage

Answer 9

blackmail info

Question 10

Blind Date

Answer 10

The first meeting with an unknown person

Question 11

Blowback

Answer 11

Unexpected negative consequences of spying.

Question 12

BND

Answer 12

Germany’s intelligence agency, the Bundesnachrichtendienst. Literally translated as the Federal News Agency

Question 13

Burnt

Answer 13

True identity exposed. See BLOWN

Question 14

Carnivore

Answer 14

A computer program designed by the FBI to allow the FBI to collect electronic communications from a specific user targeted in an investigation

Question 15

Case Officer

Answer 15

A operations officer, controller.

Question 16

Cobbler

Answer 16

A spy who creates false passports, visas, diplomas and other documents.

Question 17

Comm

Answer 17

A small note or other written communication from an underground organization or one of its members. They are typically written on cigarette wrappers, chewing gum wrappers, etc

Question 18

Command of the Target

Answer 18

The visual observation of the subject of the surveillance operation. Used during pedestrian and vehicle surveillance.

Question 19

Dead Drop

Answer 19

A location where communications, documents, or equipment is covertly placed for another person to collect without direct contact between parties

Question 20

DGI

Answer 20

Cuba’s Intelligence Agency

Question 21

DGSE

Answer 21

France’s Intelligence Agency

Question 22

DS

Answer 22

Bulgaria’s secret service

Question 23

E & E

Answer 23

Evade and escape

Question 24

Executive Action

Answer 24

Assassination

Question 25

Exhilaration

Answer 25

A rescue operation to bring a defector, refugee, or operative and his or her family out of harms way

Question 26

Filling

Answer 26

The act of inserting material in a dead drop

Question 27

Flip

Answer 27

A U turn made by the target during a vehicle surveillance operation

Question 28

GID

Answer 28

Iraq’s main intelligence agency

Question 29

Hostile Recruitment

Answer 29

Recruitment by threat or force of a uncooperative informant

Question 30

Overt Target

Answer 30

Deliberately tries to draw attention

Question 31

Posse Comitatas

Answer 31

A Latin term - meaning power of the people

Question 32

Sleeper Agent

Answer 32

An inactive deep-cover agent

Question 33

Soft Target

Answer 33

An easy surveillance target, untrained, not looking for surveillance.

Question 34

Swarming

Answer 34

Overfilling a location with surveillance operatives. Controlling targets environment.

Question 35

Terminated

Answer 35

Murdered

Question 36

Uncle

Answer 36

HQ of any espionage or intelligence service

Question 37

Zero-Out

Answer 37

The range at which a weapons sights will produce a bulls-eye hit

Question 38

IED

Answer 38

Improvised Explosive Device