Spy Jargon

Abort: This is one is pretty straightforward. It means to terminate a mission before it is completed, usually abruptly.
Access: An agent's ability to obtain sensitive information through government channels.
Agency: Slang for the SDI.
Agent of Influence: an agent with political power in a nation, planet or system if interest to the Agency.
Agent provocator: a spy who generates social and political turmoil.
Alimony: compensation paid to a long-term undercover agent when his assignment is complete.
Angel: slang for a spy of an opposing agency.
Apparatus: a spy ring; also called a "cell".
Attache: a military officer assigned to a foreign capital as a liaison and to gather data
Babysitter: bodyguard
Bag job: breaking and entering to steal or photograph intelligence material
Bigot list: the names of people who know of a certain clandestine activity, and who must therefore be safeguarded, or prevented from speaking about the projeects to outsiders.
Black: term used in specific phrases to signify something is covert of illegal in nature
Blind date: meeting someone at their choice of place and time, wirth all the associate risks.
Blowback: false rumors spread in enemy territory that are reported by their news agencies as the truth
Bodywash: a mundane explanation for an agent's death, to prevent outside suspicion.
Bogie: an unidientified agent or organization
Broken: a term applied to an agent who has become a liability; also known as "going bad"
Burn: to publicly uncovr an agent's true identity; also used by agencies, meaning to cut off from Control an agent who become a liability
Classified: sensitive material shown only on a need-to-know basis. Classifications include confidential, secret and top secret, in ascending order of security
Clearance: approval to read or handle classified material
Clean: to make secure, also known as "pacify"
Cobbler: Bothese slang fora forger; also called "shoe maker"; Bothans call fake documents "shoes".
Cold: the mental state of a spy working in hostile territory, often for months or years at the time; to get out is called "coming in from the cold"
Consumer: the final user of intel data
Control: the person in charge of an agent (that's means me), operation or organization; also known as "case officer" or "handler"
Cooking the books: slang for skewing intel to support political aims
Cousins: Bothese slang for spies of SDI
Cover: false ID, also known as "cryptonym"
Cutout: middleman between agent and agency
Dead drop: a locaion where an agent can safely leave intel data or reserves; also known as "dead letter box"
Deep cover: long-term insertion into hostile territory under an assumed identiy
Defector: someone who voluntarily shifts his allegiance from organization to another, defectors are said to have 'turned'
Dirty: treacherous
Disposable: Term applied to anything that can be sacrificed to ensure a mission's success
Doctor: Bothese term for police; agents arrested are said to have an "illness"; agents in jail are said to be at the "hospital"
Double agent: someone openly working for one intelligence agency and secretly working for another one, also called "double"
Ears only: data too sensitive to be commited to paper.
Eyes only: data that should be not be discussed without explicit permission
False drop: a place where an agent pretends to leave messages, or where messages are left in spoof code
The Firm: Alderaani term for the Agency
Floater: someone used for one-time or occasional operations, often unwittingly
The Great Game: the intelligence and counterintelligence profession
Go private: to retire from the game
HUMINT: data gathered by human, rather than satellites or computers
Illegal: a spy working in enemy territory with no diplomatic protection, usually with "legend"
IMINT: imagery intelligence, data gathered by aerial and satellite photography
Legal: an agent protected by diplomatic immunity
Legend: an artificial identity and history, usually employed by deep cover operatives
Letterbox: a cutout (see above) serving the in same capacity as a dead drop
Liquidate: to eliminate wayward agents
Load: to leave something at a dead drop
Make: to recognize someone, for example: "I've been made" means "I've been identified"
MICE (Money, Ideology, Compromise and Ego): the four most common motivations exploited by agent recruiters
Mule: a covert courier
Noise: slang for collateral attention agents draw to themselves or their mission while on the field. Noise is generally discouraged
Operational climate: a description of a local and the chacen of a mission succeeding there
Padding: extra characters added to the beginning and end of encrypted data to help prevcent it from being deciphered
Peeps: photographs used for blackmail
Plausible deniability: the valuble ability to effectively refute involvment with an operation
Plumbing: plugging leaks within an agency
Sanitize: to eliminate all evidence of an agency involvment
SIGINT: signals intel, data gathered through eavesdropping on electronic signals
Sleeper: an agent established in a target area who does nothing beyond his cover until activated
Stringer: a freelance agent
Walk-in: someone who approaches an intel agency without being prompted
Wetwork: assassination (also known as "closing a contract", "neutralizaing", "sanctionning", "terminating with extreme prejudice", or "demoting maximally")