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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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- DAM – France's military
intelligence agency.
- DANGLE – a spy who poses as a
walk-in to penetrate the other side. Also see WALK-IN.
- DARPA – Defense Advanced Research
Projects Agency (USA).
- DATA RECOVERY – bureaucrat-talk for
the backdoor built into all US-exported crypto software since 1998.
- DCSS – Denmark's security service.
- DDIS – Denmark's intelligence
agency.
- DEAD DROP – a physical location
where communications, documents, or equipment is covertly placed for another
person to collect without direct contact between the parties.
- DEAD-LETTER BOX – same as dead
drop.
- DEAD-LETTER DROP – same as dead
drop.
- DECOY – distracts adversary's
attention.
- DEEP-COVER AGENT – permanent cover.
- DEFECTOR – a person who has
renounced his/her country of citizenship.
- DGI – Cuba's intelligence agency.
- DGSE – France's intelligence
agency.
- DHS - Department of Homeland Security
- USA agency
- DIA – a US intelligence agency, the
Defense Intelligence Agency.
- DIRTY TRICKS – covert sabotage
carried out by a security service or intelligence agency, ranging from
pranks to assassination.
- DIVERSION – distracts adversary's
attention.
- DLB – acronym for dead-letter box.
Also see DEAD DROP.
- DOPE BOOK – a notebook kept with a
sniper rifle for the purposes of recording the atmospheric conditions,
range, lighting, and resulting hit or miss of every shot fired.
- DOPPELGANGER – a look-a-like. See
also LOOK-A-LIKE.
- DOUBLE-AGENT – simultaneously
serves two adversaries (often with their knowledge).
- DRY CLEANING – active counter
surveillance and anti-surveillance against pavement artists and wheel
artists.
- DS – Bulgaria's security service,
the Drzaven Sigurmost.
- DSD – Australia's signal
intelligence agency, Defence Signals Directorate.
- DST – France's security service.
- DUBOK – Russian term for a
dead-letter box. Also see DEAD DROP.
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