covertly

In “The Diplomat,” Keri Russell plays a career diplomat covertly being primed to assume the role of vice president — without having to win over an electorate.

But the US State Department welcomed the UK's latest announcement on sanctions, saying it addressed a threat in which "Kremlin-produced disinformation was covertly placed in local outlets to appear as genuine news articles".

Like Israel, Iran has a civilian nuclear programme, though it has been under suspicion for decades of covertly running a parallel programme to manufacture material - enriched uranium - for nuclear bombs, and the missiles to deliver them.

Holly met MacPhail at army cadets, where he learned how to covertly follow targets and had expressed an interest in becoming a sniper.

So he engaged a "network of proxies" to covertly advance his plot.