Word: spooked
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...make inquiries. Then I'll decide whether to talk.' Sensitive questions can provoke accusations of espionage. After I made a couple of inquiries, another Afghan intelligence operative accosted me, saying, 'The cia asked the same questions. Which agency do you work for?' Sometimes a rendezvous with an Afghan spook means sneaking into his house so that his own heavily armed men won't know he's talking to someone who might be a spy. But it's all part...
...recording devices disguised as ballpoint pens. But it's all getting so low-rent. Corporate spies are now using ordinary cell phones as cheap eavesdropping devices. Phones switched to idle and silent mode and set to answer calls automatically can be "accidentally" left behind in an office?when a spook excuses himself from a meeting to use the bathroom, for example?and activated remotely from another handset, allowing the user to listen in without the occupants' knowledge. The scam is more cunning than it sounds: So-called "bug sweepers" that reveal the presence of electronic listening devices ignore the radio...
...that the Clinton administration's bombing of al-Qaeda camps in Afghanistan had only served to boost bin Laden's standing by painting him as the man most hated and feared by America. The current wave of warnings certainly suggests to the wider world that bin-Laden continues to spook the U.S., and that's grist to his own propaganda mill...
...expensive Trilogy project, an information systems overhaul scheduled to go on line over the next several years. But Ken Senser, the assistant director for security, is moving faster: he has installed safeguards designed to pick up on activities as blatant as Hanssen's habit of running his name and spook slang through the computers to see if the FBI was onto him. A career CIA official who moved to the FBI in 1999, he admits to being surprised at the low priority accorded security prior to Hanssen's arrest in February...
...most sensitive information, and walk out again with highly classified documents. But that's just what happened last week at Castlereagh Police Station in Belfast. The perpetrators of this audacious crime did more than just provide the authors of cheap fiction with a new plot twist - they managed to spook the real-life spooks...