safe houses
Covert shelter locations
Safe houses are secret locations used to hide people or conduct covert activities.
Intelligence agencies maintain safe houses for debriefing sources or sheltering agents: The defector was taken to a safe house in Virginia.
The term extends to any secure refuge—for witnesses under protection, victims fleeing abuse, or criminals evading capture.
- hiding placesLocations for concealment
- bolt holeEmergency retreat location
- dead dropsConcealed exchange locations
- drop siteCovert transfer location
- havenShelter from danger
sanctuary · clandestine networks · espionage · intelligence operations · shelter · hideout · victim support · infiltration · refuge · counterintelligence · ratlines · retreat · asylum · escape routes · smuggling routes · human trafficking · spies · protection
- Abolitionabolitionists, Frederick Douglass, abolitionist movement, Underground Railroad, Emancipation Proclamation
- child welfarechild protection, child welfare, foster care, child services, foster home
- covert operationsundercover agents, covert ops, stings, infiltration, deep cover
- Underground Railroadstations, hiding places, secret rooms, hidden passages, tunnels
- human smugglingcoyotes, snakeheads, smuggling networks, smuggling rings, smuggling routes
- housingapartments, home, houses, homes, apartment
safe housesdanger zones
Locations where harm threatens
kill zones · hostile territory · death traps · hot zones · enemy territory
safe housesprisons
Detention facilities for criminals
detention centers · jails · holding cells · internment camps · police stations
safe housestraps
Devices for catching prey
death traps · torture chambers · honeypots · snares · lures