Sabotage: tasked with directing covert contact / exploitation of discontented minority groups in foreign countries for intelligence purposes.
These covert contacts should be underlined by visible, strong action.
They say there are too many covert contacts between Greek officials and terrorist groups.
The study was instrumental in persuading some top-ranking Reagan Administration policy makers to begin considering covert contacts with Iranian leaders.
The Clinton decision to "open a dialogue" - overt and covert contact, and largely on Iran's terms - has already been made.
Ali made covert contacts with German representatives in the Middle East, though he was not yet an openly pro-Axis supporter.
If anything . . . the United States only wants covert contacts with them.
Burns should split his next phase into two; one being a covert contact to ask the subject exactly that: Did he really invent the wheel?
He also gave a speech about Lakshman Kadirgamar, the former Sri Lankan foreign minister, warmly recalling their first covert contacts as peace negotiators.
During the war, Károlyi had made covert contacts with British and French diplomats in Switzerland.