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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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- E&E – escape and evasion.
- EARS ONLY - material
too secret to commit to writing.
- ELEMENT – a five-man SWAT team.
Consisting of a team leader, scout, rear guard, and two assaulters. The rear
guard provides cover for the scout and is usually armed with a 12-guage
shotgun. The assaulters usually carry Heckler & Koch 9mm MP-5 submachine
guns. See also ASSAULTER.
- ELLIPTICAL CONVERSATION – says one
thing but means another.
- ENIGMA - the
machine used by the Germans to encode messages during WWII.
- EQUESTRIAN POSTURE – an effect
produced by rigor mortis whereby the cadaver sits upright as if
riding in a saddle, with arms outstretched.
- Escort: the
operations officer assigned to lead a defector along an escape route.
- ESPIONAGE – clandestine collection
of intelligence by a non-domestic intelligence agency.
- ESS – acronym for environmentally
stable strategy, a concept used in strategic game-theory.
- ETA – an underground group in
Spain.
- EVOC – an acronym for Emergency
Vehicle Operation Course, taught at the FBI academy in Quantico
- EXECUTIVE ACTION
-
assassination.
- EXFILTRATION
- a clandestine rescue operation designed to
bring a defector, refugee, or an operative and his or her family out of
harm's way.
- EXPATS - expatriates
who have taken up residence in another country and are helping to define its
culture.
- EYES ONLY - documents
that may be read but not discussed.
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