The Covert Comic

Weekly Intelligence Briefing

(Note: Cleared readers only, please.)

The more you do more with less, the less you have to do more with less more.

●  Missed Connection, Kabul.  You: petite, black burqa, with ample, firm-looking upper torso; disappeared into crowd near police station shortly before earthshaking boom.  Me: convinced that boom was my heart.  Please have male family member contact me at this PO Box.

●  Is technology morally neutral, or just undecided?

●  Think of managers, not as order givers, but as facilitators.  And that's a facilitation.

●  In a past wife, I was handsome, charming and a great lover.

Executive Intelligence Summary

As long as you're already bowing, is there any reason not to scrape? – Real Men Don't Get Published

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Outgunned is outfunned.

●  Secret 92.11.  If it's a covert operation, you deny that you did it, but you don't necessarily deny it happened.  If it's a clandestine operation, you deny it happened, but you don't necessarily deny that you did it. – Tradecraft

●  November 13th is World Kindness Day.  November 16th is International Day for Tolerance.  Trust me, you do NOT want to confuse them.

●  Let us oppose, with all the faculties and powers granted to us, the granting of powers to faculties.

●  At a certain level of ecological efficiency, the behavior of an organism must increasingly become indistinguishable from that of a black hole.  Which raises the question: is most of the mass of the universe missing, or is somebody somewhere doing really, really well?

Executive Intelligence Summary

The born wanderer who never leaves home is just another kind of runaway.

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Secret 151.  To get something on your asset, get something in your asset.

●  SpookSpeak.  Causable denial n.  (Intelligence Community) A truthful denial of a notional event or situation, that subsequently causes that event or situation to occur.

●  Never take credit for someone else's work.  Insist on cash only.

●  My uncle once offered me the following advice: "Only you can live your life; don't let others live it for you."

I said: "So in other words, don't let other people do what you just said is impossible anyway."

My uncle pretty much leaves me alone now. – The Naked Intelligence Officer

●  If you have to ask, you can't afford IT.

Executive Intelligence Summary

You don't make it up as you go, you make it up so as to keep going.