The Covert Comic

Weekly Intelligence Briefing

(Note: Cleared readers only, please.)

Secret 3102126.0.  The more everyone knows about what everyone is doing, the more what everyone is doing is about knowing this.

●  What good is a safe house if the sidewalk's dangerous?

●  I read an ad: '99% Of Women Are Turned On If You Say These Words.'  So I started saying 'These Words' to every woman I met.  But it only worked about 47% of the time.

● ∞ > ∞. – key statement in Cantor's theorem proving that some infinities are larger than others

●  Fleetingness is here to stay. – Who Killed The Covert Comic?

Executive Intelligence Summary

Actually, I haven't heard this one before, but I think I'll go ahead and stop you anyway.

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A policymaker is a National Intelligence Estimate's way of making another National Intelligence Estimate.

●  If sitting in a dark office on a Saturday night typing a report on a deputy vice-minister's views regarding the depreciation of oil drilling equipment in Central Eurasia is your idea of sexy (and also, if you're having sex while doing this), then yes, real-life espionage is sexy.

●  I practice a back-to-nature lifestyle.  The farther behind my back nature is, the better.

●  According to science, gender fluidity, if it's hot enough, can transform into a gender gas!

●  Better over the top than under the bottom. – The Naked Intelligence Officer

Executive Intelligence Summary

Easier lies the head that leaves the crown on the nightstand.

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The memoranda regarding the memoir shall beget the memoir regarding the memoranda.

●  Agent-in-place?  Your place or mine?

●  The Papal Swiss Guard is like the US Secret Service, only more conservatively dressed.

●  Our relationship with food in large part defines us – or at least it defines our large parts.

●  The hell with cutting to the chase – let's cut straight to the crash. – Tradecraft

Motivational Secret of the Week

It takes less time to kill all the people who say 'It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong' than to explain why you only wounded some of them.