The Covert Comic

Weekly Intelligence Briefing

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On the other hand, man's humanity to man isn't all that hot either.

●  SpookSpeak.  Serge capability n.  Surge capability, when directed against Russian intelligence.

●  I'm troubled by media reports of governors being hanged in effigy by COVID-19 protesters.

When referring to an effigy or other inanimate object, the correct usage is 'hung.'

●  You have body image issues?  Are they first editions?

●  Never fish for compliments.  Lob dynamite in the water. – Real Men Don't Get Published

Executive Intelligence Summary

Dance like you're not performing surveillance.  Love like you won't have to terminate the target later tonight.

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The pleasure is mined.

●  Intelligence Community Pick-up Line of the Night.  Why don't you slip into a little Victoria's Secret, and I'll file a Freedom of Information Act request.

●  The famous principle 'Never pick up a heavy box unless you know where you're going to put it down' has a corollary: Never know where you're going to put down a heavy box.

●  Necessity is the mother of invention, though her other kids have turned out fine.

●  When I heard the TV commentator say that Americans aren't a gullible people, I just smiled.

Americans not gullible: talk about wonderful news! – My War on Terror!

Executive Intelligence Summary

According to the theory of relativity, when you think you're rising to the occasion, the occasion may in fact be falling at an accelerating velocity toward you.

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Life is a surveillance detection route – and the surveillance we seek to detect is us.

●  Her sensitive compartmented information control system ached for his top secret. –

●  Saw a headline: 'Drinks You Should Never Have After 40.'  Who are they writing this for???  I'd be on the floor after my fifteenth!

●  The 'great man theory' of history shackled human thought for a generation, until some pretty good guys came along to refute it.

●  We long to witness miracles, yet fail to recognize the miraculous in everyday life.  For example, using only a common air horn, I can make co-workers levitate.

Executive Intelligence Summary

Life begins at deception. – Catwalk of Spies