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Spy Words, Terms and Codes
Here is a reference resource for all those spy codes and covert talk.
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- BACKSTOP – an arrangement between
two persons for the express purpose of substantiating a cover story or
alibi.
- BAG JOB – surreptitious entry,
break and enter.
- BAKIN – Indonesia's security
service.
- BATF – a US security service, the
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms.
- BETTY BUREAU – FBI slang for a
female support person who has worked for the FBI her entire career.
- BfV – Germany's security service,
the Bundesamt fir Verfassungsschutz.
- BIOGRAPHICAL LEVERAGE – blackmail
info.
- BIRDWATCHER -
slang used by British Intelligence for a spy.
- BLACK-FLAGGED – an agent or
intelligence officer who is to be interrogated and summarily shot if
apprehended.
- BLIND DATE – the first meeting with
an unknown person.
- BLACK PROPOGANDA – a smear
campaign, usually consisting of character assassination.
- BLOWBACK – unexpected negative
consequences of spying activity.
- BLOWFISH – a mathematical algorithm
for computer encryption of text that purportedly can only be cracked by
brute force if the pass-phrase is unknown.
- BLOWN – detected.
- BLUE-ON-BLUE – friendly fire,
inadvertent hostile engagement between allies.
- BND – Germany's intelligence
agency, the Bundesnachrichtendienst. Literally translated as the Federal
News Agency.
- Bona Fides -
proof of a person's claimed
identity.
- BOX – slang for Britain's security
service, MI.5.
- BREVITY CODES – a system of
code-words used by members of a surveillance team.
- BRICK AGENT – an FBI agent who
works inside a field office. Also see STREET AGENT.
- BRIDE AGENT -
an agent who acts as a courier from a case officer to an agent in a
denied area.
- BRUSH CONTACT – a clandestine,
momentary contact between two agents who are passing information, documents,
or equipment.
- BRUSH PASS – same as brush contact.
- BSS – Belgium's security service
- BUCAR – an FBI car.
- BUG-ON-A-CHIP – slang for USA's
Clipper chip.
- BUPO – Switzerland's security
service.
- BURNT – burned, completed exposed.
See BLOWN.
- BVD – Netherlands' security
service.
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