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Which agency is known for running clandestine operations?

clandestine

[klan-des-tin] / klænˈdɛs tɪn /


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"Rush revealed to a foreign government official the existence and certain descriptive information of a US government clandestine human source," they said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026

The setup implies that Carrie—intellectually curious, a clandestine book reader, a guileless innocent for whom Ms. Howell makes us ache—is being liberated from Margaret’s fundamentalist penal colony.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

As Béatrice’s amateur detective work pulls her in deeper, the strands begin to suggest a conspiracy, one marked by mysterious disappearances and the clandestine sway of the Vatican.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

Rules followed by American companies are also unlikely to bind foreign rivals, a hostile government, or a clandestine organization.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026

After years of clandestine relationships, it felt refreshing to court in a fishbowl, to have the support of her parents from the very start, the inevitability of an unquestioned future, of marriage, drawing them along.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri




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