safe house
Spy's secret hideout
A safe house is a secret location where people can hide or take refuge.
Intelligence agencies use safe houses to shelter operatives, informants, or defectors: The CIA maintained safe houses throughout Eastern Europe.
Criminal organizations use them similarly.
The term also applies to shelters for people fleeing domestic violence or persecution: She stayed at a safe house while escaping her abuser.
Protected sacred space
- havenShelter from danger
- hideoutSecret place of refuge
- asylumShelter from persecution
- shelterProtected place or structure
retreat · harbor · bolthole · hiding place · concealment · fugitive · witness protection · escape
Shelter from persecution
- rescueSave from harm
- shelterProtected place or structure
- traffickingIllegal transport for profit
- smugglingIllegal covert transport
refugee · displaced · persecution · escape route · border crossing · aid worker · NGO · protection
Covert information gatherer
- agentOne who acts independently
- undercoverSecretly engaged in espionage
- clandestineConcealed from authorities
- intelligenceMental ability, cognitive capacity
surveillance · informant · double agent · sleeper · tradecraft · counterintelligence · dead drop · exfiltration
sanctuary
Protected sacred space
shelter · retreat · harbor · bolthole · hiding place · concealment · fugitive · witness protection · escape · secrecy
asylum
Shelter from persecution
- rescueSave from harm
- shelterProtected place or structure
- traffickingIllegal transport for profit
smuggling · refugee · displaced · persecution · escape route · border crossing · aid worker · NGO · protection · victims
spy
Covert information gatherer
- agentOne who acts independently
- undercoverSecretly engaged in espionage
- clandestineConcealed from authorities
intelligence · surveillance · informant · double agent · sleeper · tradecraft · counterintelligence · dead drop · exfiltration · infiltration
- emergency sheltersemergency shelter, homeless shelter, disaster shelter, family shelter, night shelter
- Slavery EscapeUnderground Railroad, Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, runaways, fugitives
- crimerobbery, accomplice, alibi, burglary, conspiracy
- espionagespy, spies, double agent, double agents, spying
- Spy Fictionspy, secret agent, double agent, MI6, CIA
- escapeescape, flee, run away, get away, flight
safe housedeath trap
Perilously unsafe place
kill zone · danger zone · trap · prison · torture chamber
safe houseprison
Confinement for offenders
jail · detention center · dungeon · holding cell · internment camp