Early in the decade, Coward undertook a number of covert intelligence-gathering missions for a war that he was sure was coming.
There's a kind of Ponzi scheme at work, where people like to believe that they're acting from some sort of covert intelligence.
He gave the example of a human covert intelligence operation being at risk as being a good proportional reason to keep it secret.
In particular, he opposes any reduction in the number of congressional oversight committees and, consequently, the number of people who are briefed on covert intelligence matters due to the potential for leaks.
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The Intelligence community does not need broad capability to conduct covert operations, the most useful intelligence comes from good analysis of information from public sources.
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Based on intelligence and covert operations, "over the last couple of years much of the profit from this criminality is sent back to the heads of organized crime networks abroad, " a BTP spokesman said.
Morphing from actor to patient to soldier to spy, Lysander is plunged into the dangerous world of wartime intelligence as a covert operative.
They have also been, according to Mark Hampton, an author on tax havens, useful to western intelligence services setting up covert operations.
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Kennan gave counsel to the Administration during the Korean War, and was instrumental in setting up the covert-operations wing of the Central Intelligence Agency.
The former Soviet Union has long been suspected by intelligence analysts of having retained a covert -- and illegal -- BW capability.
Another former Ghazni governor, Afghan intelligence chief Asadullah Khaled, provided covert aid to some of the rebels, Mr. Khaled and rebel leaders said.
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