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A covert operation or undercover operation is a military or police operation involving a covert agent or troops acting under an assumed cover to conceal the identity of the party responsible.[1] Some of the covert operations are also clandestine operations which are performed in secret and meant to stay secret, though many are not.
^Carson, Austin (2018). Secret Wars: Covert Conflict in International Politics. Princeton University Press. pp. 5–6. doi:10.2307/j.ctv346p45. JSTOR j.ctv346p45.
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A black operation or black ops is a covert or clandestine operation by a government agency, a military unit or a paramilitary organization; it can include...
failed Israeli covertoperation, codenamed Operation Susannah, conducted in Egypt in the summer of 1954. As part of a false flag operation, a group of Egyptian...
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since World War II) in a covertoperation the identity of the sponsor is concealed, while in a clandestine operation the operation itself is concealed. Put...
and the United States, in collaboration with Western allies. This covertoperation aimed to overthrow the government led by Enver Hoxha. The intervention...
Forgery is used by some governments and non-state actors as a tool of covertoperation, disinformation and black propaganda. Letters, currency, speeches,...
error. According to the Atlantic Monthly, Operation Olympic Games is "probably the most significant covert manipulation of the electromagnetic spectrum...
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purposes. The Joint Chiefs recommended that both the covert and overt aspects of any such operation be assigned to them. The previously secret document...
use of human intelligence (HUMINT) and conducting covert action through its Directorate of Operations. As a principal member of the United States Intelligence...
Operation Moses (Hebrew: מִבְצָע מֹשֶׁה, Mivtza Moshe) was the covert evacuation of Ethiopian Jews (known as the "Beta Israel" community or the derogatory...
primarily on watching and reporting global covertoperations. CovertAction relaunched in May 2018 as CovertAction Magazine. It is generally critical of...
Special Service Group successfully executed the covertoperation in Indian-administered Kashmir but the operation failed from the very beginning due to lack...
Operation Easy Chair was a joint covertoperation of the US Central Intelligence Agency, the Dutch Internal Security Service (BVD), and the Dutch Radar...
Operation Bayonet (Hebrew: מבצע זעם האל, romanized: Mivtza Za'am Ha'el, lit. 'Operation Wrath of God') was a covertoperation directed by Mossad to assassinate...
Project Sapphire was a successful 1994 covertoperation of the United States government in cooperation with the Kazakhstan government to reduce the threat...
for covert political warfare. We cannot afford in the future, in perhaps more serious political crises, to scramble into impromptu covertoperations......
Operation Bloodstone was a covertoperation whereby the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) sought out Nazis and collaborators living in Soviet-controlled...
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