They are allowed to join a secret ops mission to break the assassin's circle and capture the ring leaders.

"I must ask more about those covert ops missions of yours sometime . . . So what is she now?"

This is a black ops mission.

Meanwhile, Grifter performed black ops missions for Marlowe, such as liberating child laborers.

If what the admiral had related was true if this truly was a black ops mission then perhaps he had just found an ally.

For a black ops mission, exposure or capture was worse than death.

It says your friend went missing during a special ops mission at the Iraq border- along with another old friend of yours.

On one of his old covert ops missions, he tells me.

The Black King confronts Waller with the fact that she is still covertly directing ops missions.

"To conceal any black ops missions within our borders."