'covert talks' is correct and usable in written English.
It is a way of referring to secret conversations or negotiations. For example, "The leaders of both countries agreed to take part in covert talks in order to resolve the border dispute".
The C.I.A. director's covert talks with North Korea's mercurial young leader, Kim Jong Un, apparently went well.
The country's foreign minister, Ahmed Davutoglu, outlined the demands in covert talks with Israel's Trade and Labor Minister, Benjamin Benjaminzer.
Now McGuinness announces that the Irish and British governments are currently engaged in some form of covert talks with the republican dissident groups who are determined to destroy the peace process the Sinn Féin MP, amongst others, helped piece together.
The International Atomic Energy Agency was sidelined during the covert American-British talks that led to the disclosure by Libya that it had a 15-year-old nuclear weapons program.
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But worryingly, the covert nature of the talks may well be the least of our problems.
Pakistan's generals have become adept at pursuing both peace talks and covert war simultaneously, and at telling American interlocutors what they wish to hear.
Although the timing of the rescue was a coincidence and Mr. McCain's trip to Colombia had nothing to do with it, the event nonetheless put him in the middle of classified talks about covert operations with the head of another government.
Not only is the minimum age on some nights being raised to 19, but there is also talk of "covert surveillance" within the club a disconcertingly vague detail.
By Jonah Goldberg The New Yorker, February 9 , 1998P. 29 Talk story about journalistic maneuverings surrounding Lucianne Goldberg's copy of Linda Tripp's covert tapes of Monica Lewinsky, written in the first person by her son... View Article By Anthony Lane By Rebecca Mead By John Cassidy By Jia Tolentino.
No official, of course, is willing to talk about any covert mission to remove the colonel, except to say that "regime change" is not authorized by the United Nations.
