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black operation
noun
A covert operation typically involving activities that are highly clandestine and outside of standard military protocol.
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The best black operation can become immortal.
From the beginning in Crimea, Putin ran the campaign there as a "black" operation.
But the most durable black operation of modern times must be "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion," a late-19th century concoction of the Okhrana, the Russian czar's secret police.
Iain Duncan Smith, the former work and pensions secretary who is one of Leadsom's most high-profile supporters, said she was "genuinely mortified" but added he believed "we've had a real black operation to denigrate her".
Gao, 45, was taken away by police on Feb. 4, in what had all the markings of a black operation by China's shadowy security apparatus.
Price was sent on a black operation to assassinate Zakhaev.
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The guilty pleas, entered in Federal District Court in Greenbelt, Md., followed a prolonged investigation of a sophisticated black-market operation.
For months, detectives had suspected the couple were working a fence, a black-market operation to buy stolen goods and resell them later as legitimate.
It included conventional outreach to newspapers and "black operations".
But as with all good black operations, the allegations, once made, lingered.
Engaged in "black" operations to disrupt the Taliban leadership structure, they worry consultation might jeopardise their campaign.
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