A little knowledge as you watch "Burn Notice"

Spook Speak

The Company - What officers, agents and those on the inside call the CIA.
White Coats or Spooks in White - Is inside slang for CIA doctors/physicians.
Joe - From back in WWII... the basic and common American name was jargon used for
an agent (not wanting to blow cover or use their real names, of course).
OMS - Is the acronym/slang for the CIA's Office of Medical Services. This is where
CIA employees are sent (or may go to) to get both physical and/or psychiatric treatment.
HQ - I'm sure most of you are familiar but just in case, this stands for Head Quarters.
Clandestine Operation - A secret covert or undercover operation. An operation the general public and the media alike are not aware of.
Agent - An outsider hired by a CIA officer to spy. An Agent is often a citizen of the
country being spied upon.
Officer - A staff employee of the agency. Officers in the field can submit to recruit agents as needed.
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Cowboy - CIA slang. An unflattering term that denotes an intelligence person who defies the rules, regulations and conventions and conducts himself in an unprofessional, flamboyant way.
aka a "loose cannon".

Dry Clean - Actions operatives take to determine if they are under surveillance or bugged.
Bugs - I'm sure most of ya know this one, but it's electronic devices planted to spy on or track
a person or group of people.
Clean - Unknown to enemy intelligence. Also means free of any kind of surveillance.
The Farm (aka Camp Swampy) - Insider slang for the CIA's training camp/spy school, located in Virginia. Also known as Camp Perry.
Roll-Up - When an operation goes bad and/or an agent is arrested.
Blowback (aka Flap) - Potential bad publicity that might result if a CIA operation is exposed
to the public.
Exfiltration Operation - A clandestine rescue operation designed to bring a operative
(officer or agent), defector, refugee and/or his/her family out of harm's way.
Controller (aka Handler) - Officer in charge of a string of agents.
Camp Swampy (aka The Farm) - Insider slang for the CIA's training camp/spy school, located in Virginia. Also known as Camp Perry.
OMS - Is the acronym/slang for the CIA's Office of Medical Services. This is where
CIA employees are sent (or may go to) to get both physical and/or psychiatric treatment.
White Coats - CIA slang for The Company doctors.
Commandment 11 - A most important rule for a spook, "Thou shalt not get caught!".
Wet Job - Slang for an operation in which blood is shed.
Air America (aka AA) - The CIA's air lines, used by CIA officers/operatives.
Loose Cannon (aka Cowboy) - CIA slang. An unflattering term that denotes an intelligence person who defies the rules, regulations and conventions and conducts himself in an unprofessional, flamboyant way.
Burned - When an operative is deliberately sacrificed by his own agency to protect an operation.
OOS - Acronym for the Office of Security.
Bona Fides - Proof from OOS of a person's claimed identity.
Flash Classified - Second highest state of classified material. The order goes (starting w/ least important first); Routine, Priority, Immediate, Flash, Critical.
Bridge Officer/Bridge Agent - An operative who acts as a currier.
201 File - The file of an operative at CIA, with all his/her personal info, training and operation details.
Terminated - Murdered.
Economical with the truth - Not CIA slang or anything, but a saying that means one is conveying an untrue version of events by leaving out important facts. Simply put, when someone's lying.
Briefed - When an Officer/Agent is told pertinent facts before executing an assignment, job, operation etc.
Disinformation - False information purposely given to mislead.
HUMINT - Acronym/Slang for Human Intelligence
Compromised - When an agent or officer's true identity or mission has been uncovered and the future of the operation is shaky.
Mole - A person inside a government agency, usually an intelligence agency, who is obtaining information about that organization's secrets and activities.
DLS Class - Acronym for Daily Living Skills Class, for those living with a disability whether it be recent or born to - in this case if would be for officers/agents injured badly on assignment.
Throwaway - An agent/officer considered
expendable.
Savoir-faire - Not necessarily CIA slang, but it means... expertise, mastery, know-how, skill, training.
Microdots – Tiny photographs of messages, secret documents, or other images which are so small that they can only be read with a special magnifying viewer. A full-page document can be as tiny as 1 mm in width.

 

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