Sentence examples for as a covert operation from inspiring English sources

What had started as a covert operation became overt as Mexican forces attempted to heighten the pressure on Chapo.

The plan to supply the rebels with small arms and other weaponry is being run as a covert operation by the Central Intelligence Agency, and General Dempsey made no mention of it in his letter.

While administration officials said the military would assume control of the bulk of drone operations, the C.I.A. will continue to run the drone war as a covert operation in Pakistan for months to come, possibly even until the end of 2014.

It was an attempt at a covert operation.

Police are asking whether Hamza and his organisation were allowed to operate in Britain under surveillance by the intelligence services as part of a covert operation to gather information on contacts abroad.

"And, as far as they're concerned, this is a covert operation, and it's to be kept within Defense Department channels".

Since dissent must reflect foreign meddling, they see Other Russia as a Western stooge, part of a covert operation to destabilise the country.

Beyond the strategy of supporting this, there are only two other options: Either you do a deal with Mr. Milosevic (a risky business), or you mount a covert operation, and, as we know, the C.I.A. no longer does that sort of thing.

Promotional interviews aside, it's not as if Grande and Miller have been running a covert operation since she broke up with dancer Ricky Alvarez in late July. .

As an example, the C.I.A.'s 1958 Operation Wappen was a covert operation to overthrow the Syrian government in what my father, a United States ambassador to Syria, called "a particularly clumsy C.I.A. plot".

They even used me in a covert operation, aimed at a local spot known for cruising.