black-bag
Clandestine government entry
Black-bag describes covert operations, especially illegal break-ins conducted by intelligence or law enforcement agencies to gather information, plant surveillance devices, or photograph documents: a black-bag job at the embassy, black-bag operations during the Cold War.
The term evokes burglars carrying tools in a nondescript bag.
As a verb, to black-bag is to conduct such an operation.
Unlawful entry to premises
- entryAccess or submission
- intrusionUnauthorized entry into space
- theftUnlawful taking of property
- pilferageMinor theft of goods
ransack · lockpick · bypass · alarm · security · trespass · steal · documents
Concealed from authorities
- surreptitiousDone secretly, avoiding detection
- stealthSecret, undetected movement
- infiltrationCovert entry into organization
- undercoverSecretly engaged in espionage
surveillance · cloak-and-dagger · secretive · hidden · unseen · undetected · furtive · discreet
Covert information gatherer
- intelligenceMental ability, cognitive capacity
- CIAU.S. foreign intelligence service
- KGBUSSR intelligence service
- MI6UK espionage agency
Mossad · agent · counterintelligence · cyberespionage · informant · sleeper · reconnaissance · operative
break-in
Unlawful entry to premises
pilferage · ransack · lockpick · bypass · alarm · security · trespass · steal · documents · files
clandestine
Concealed from authorities
- surreptitiousDone secretly, avoiding detection
- stealthSecret, undetected movement
- infiltrationCovert entry into organization
undercover · surveillance · cloak-and-dagger · secretive · hidden · unseen · undetected · furtive · discreet · shadow
spy
Covert information gatherer
- intelligenceMental ability, cognitive capacity
- CIAU.S. foreign intelligence service
- KGBUSSR intelligence service
MI6 · Mossad · agent · counterintelligence · cyberespionage · informant · sleeper · reconnaissance · operative · spycraft
kidnapping
Unlawful seizure of person
capture · snatch · grab · detain · vanish · disappear · victim · rendition · extraordinary rendition · interrogation
black-bagwarranted
Properly justified or sanctioned
sanctioned · legal · lawful · by-the-book · legitimate
black-bagovert
Plainly apparent to all
open · transparent · disclosed · public · announced
black-bagethical
Conforming to moral principles
principled · legitimate · proper · clean · honorable
black, bag, blacks, blacker, blackest, blacken, blackened, blackening, blackness