Check out the first trailer for Cloak and Dagger, below.
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It's all so cloak and dagger, except far more nerdy.
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Theoretically, this kind of cloak and dagger plotting should terrify Claire.
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"It was cloak-and-dagger stuff," said Mitchell, who died in 22009.
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What would happen if you wanted Cloak and Dagger to pop by?
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Nunes seemed to delight in the cloak-and-dagger aura of the assignment.
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People are using cloak and dagger language like, 'Use it for tobacco or herb.
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"I told them I didn't want to do cloak-and-dagger stuff," she said.
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We often think of the CIA and intelligence work as being cloak-and-dagger stuff.
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The ongoing digital Cloak and Dagger series will also become a part of the line.
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But the visits weren't arranged like cloak-and-dagger operations out of a political thriller.
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If Trump and his associates have nothing to hide, why all the cloak and dagger?
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Unfortunately, as I investigated more, I found myself up against this cloak-and-dagger world.
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Experts say, there also may be a bit of cloak-and-dagger involved in all this.
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What's with the cloak-and-dagger games [under Kalanick, who actively avoided talk of an IPO]?
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"Why all the cloak and dagger stuff?" he tells reporters in a late-afternoon press conference.
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But were the show's young visitors eager to join the cloak-and-dagger world of GCHQ?
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It's the only show on television that combines elements of high fantasy with cloak-and-dagger intrigue.
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RUSSIAN SPY RING Not all cloak and dagger: Think working for a Russian spy ring is sexy?
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But rather than fight superhuman threats, Cloak and Dagger typically make crime and the drug trade their enemies.
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Roche uses his cloak-and-dagger methods to put on of Foltest's children on the empty Temerian throne.
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Turbocharged coverage might have led readers inside the cloak-and-dagger underworld of the hackers and the hacked.
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If a Chinese entity were to buy the company, China could obtain secrets without the cloak and dagger.
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Cloak and Dagger is based on the titular superhero duo who first made their comics debut back in 1982.
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One of the victims was Mr. Magnitsky, whose death was hardly the stuff of cloak-and-dagger security operations.
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So — does Page just have a heightened sense of self-importance and a weakness for cloak-and-dagger language?
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Why mess around with this whole cloak-and-dagger business of paying test takers, bribing coaches, and photoshopping pictures?
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Not only that, but this time, Cloak and Dagger will be making a Marvel-esque crossover from their Freeform series.
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Marvel also has television shows on ABC ( "Agents of Shield"), FX ("Legion"), Fox ("The Gifted") and FreeForm ("Cloak and Dagger").
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Low, black ceilings lend the downtown establishment a cloak-and-dagger allure, which the otherwise colorful, thrifted décor then complicates.
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Olivia Holt from "Marvel's Cloak and Dagger" stars and sings in this fantasy teen comedy about family and overcoming fears.
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But Trump's policy views on matters related to Russia are a lot clearer than any of these cloak-and-dagger allegations.
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The police search of United Nuclear came the very next morning after this cloak and dagger discussion, according to Lazar and Corbell.
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First introduced in the 1980s, Cloak and Dagger primarily focused on fighting the war on drugs, rather than doing battle with costumed supervillains.
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Apparently viewers will have to wait until halfway through the season, at least, to see what Cloak and Dagger look like in action.
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Millions who had never heard of the castle or the museum, much less seen them, are riveted by the cloak-and-dagger tale.
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Even the quotidian stuff of your average "Legion" episode — superhuman cloak-and-dagger games, psychedelic-telepathic visual fantasias — works better this time around.
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Snowden would remain there for about two weeks, only leaving his hideout to board a plane to Moscow in a cloak-and-dagger operation.
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Plus, there will be a special crossover episode with Freeform's "Cloak and Dagger," which stars Aubrey Joseph and Olivia Holt as the titular characters.
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It had sex, it had cloak and dagger intrigue, it had the shadowy British spy [Christopher Steele], it had obscure meetings on remote islands.
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But the plot to infiltrate the cartel's communications was the first time prosecutors disclosed that they also employed high-tech cloak-and-dagger methods.
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"The cloak-and-dagger exercise in Pakistan arranging the trip was fascinating," Mr Kissinger told the White House staff when he returned to Washington.
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They are not cloak-and-dagger types with handlers, cut-outs and dead drops; rather, they tend to be "academics, students, businessmen or journalists".
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Marvel is already working on a live-action Cloak and Dagger series for the network, and that effort has been called a superhero romance series.
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The problem with it at this point is that there's no reason to think that any of the cloak-and-dagger circumstances would have changed.
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It's not funny the same way that Succession is funny, but it's that same cloak and dagger-y behavior with people you love to hate.
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And, using cloak-and-dagger tradecraft that—like the expertise in violence—was a legacy of the war, the group ran surveillance and intelligence operations.
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Although the administration announced in January that it would pay $1.7 billion to Iran, it did not disclose the cloak-and-dagger style of the payments.
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Are they as bananas-nutty as Devin Nunes leaping out of his car to run to the White House for a cloak-and-dagger intel exchange?
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The class of attacks, dubbed "Cloak and Dagger," was first uncovered by a team of researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta last August.
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"When we were shooting second season of Cloak and Dagger in New Orleans, I found a recording studio out there, a beautiful recording studio," she says.
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From his groundbreaking third onwards, he explored topical conflicts and human duplicity in complex dramas that were rich in cloak-and-dagger machinations and moral ambiguity.
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Also in 2018, Freeform is getting both the superhero / teen romance series Cloak and Dagger and New Warriors, a full-fledged comedy starring fan-favorite Squirrel Girl.
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This cloak-and-dagger approach is astonishing, to the point that an engineer's line manager might at times not know what her direct reports are working on.
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As chairman, he followed Devin Nunes of California, whose handling of the committee's Russia investigation was specious and included cloak-and-dagger visits to the White House.
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These are similarities that could have been built in to let Cloak and Dagger cross over to other series (Runaways included), the way they do in the comics.
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Very old school cloak and dagger, yet highly effective, the team has devised escape routes and multiple safe locations to move the couple to should it become necessary.
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Also making appearances are Ty Johnson and Tandy Bowen, the light- and darkness-powered heroes of Marvel's other doomed-too-soon teen show on Freeform, Cloak and Dagger.
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Against that backdrop, the Showtime drama remains plenty watchable with its cloak-and-dagger machinations, but it's hard to envision anyone lamenting that the finale came too soon.
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"In Burma, everything was cloak and dagger," said Sally Thompson, executive director of The Border Consortium (TBC), which provides food, shelter and other support to refugees in the camps.
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The seemingly cloak-and-dagger aura surrounding the cash payment prompted Republicans to question whether it amounted to a ransom, which would be a violation of longstanding U.S. policy.
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But the president has also shown less interest in details about potential terrorist plots or cloak-and-dagger spy work — the kind of secret information that excites most officials.
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Marvel doesn't appear to have a huge presence this year at SDCC, but it will show off a bit of what's to come with its Freeform show Cloak and Dagger.
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The investigations required a number of cloak-and-dagger precautions: a secure email system, extra secure cellphones and, Mr. McLaren said, shadow surveillance personnel who followed him on certain occasions.
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The cloak-and-dagger element is unavoidably funny, particularly in the context of the obsessive secrecy under which football coaches already operate — although, admittedly, this episode has actually vindicated those tendencies.
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In the end, despite all the cloak-and-dagger tactics, the intrigue and the vast resources news organizations devote to this game, the result will be inevitable: Each candidate will pick somebody.
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"Royi would give his 'cloak and dagger' spiel and then Scott would come on and give his 'Boy Scout' spiel, which is 'What we're doing is completely legal,' " a former colleague said.
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KISSEL: I want to give a big hit, Paul, to Ukraine Security Services, who ran an extraordinary cloak-and-dagger operation this week to save the live of a Putin critic, Arkady Babchenko.
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He combines a suspiciously privileged background (Eton, Oxford and the Foreign Office, cloak-and-dagger branch) with an even more suspicious taste for ideas (he has taught at Harvard and published four books).
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But cybersecurity experts — including some former government hackers who would have conducted these type of operations — cautioned that the Obama administration is not likely to pursue cloak-and-dagger steps against Russia now.
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Unlike Nixon's cloak and dagger burglaries, we have Congress which appears complicit in using the courts, the Justice Department, Homeland Security and even the armed forces to suppress free speech in broad daylight.
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Cloak-and-dagger intrigue notwithstanding, Russia has been unabashedly pro-Trump; it was the only G20 country in which a majority of people polled during the race favored the businessman over Hillary Clinton.
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A former KGB lieutenant colonel with a legendary penchant for cloak-and-dagger operations, Putin has kept his daughters and grandchildren shrouded in official secrecy despite almost two decades in the world spotlight.
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" But his "cloak-and-dagger claims of chasing down terrorists" were often dismissed as "wildly unlikely," while Sater himself remained "an obsession of the many investigators — professional and amateur — searching for Trump's Russia connection.
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Steve Baker, a senior lawmaker who served as a deputy to Davis in the Brexit ministry before resigning with his boss, said May had presided over a "cloak and dagger" plot to undermine Brexit.
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It was a time in which the erosion of moral taboos in the swinging '60s and the cloak-and-dagger machinations of the Cold War combined to produce a steady supply of dramatic trials.
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"Very strange," in the language of conspiracy theorists everywhere, is signaling without any pretense at all that the spooks of the CIA and FBI are up to their usual cloak-and-dagger high jinks.
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"Military intelligence has rapidly moved from cloak-and-dagger to bits-and-bytes over the last fifteen years... and China's no exception to that," says Bryce Boland, Asia-Pacific CTO of FireEye, a cybersecurity firm.
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Most presumptive nominees operate their vice presidential search under intense secrecy with potential candidates sneaking to cloak-and-dagger meetings to avoid the press and maintain the element of surprise ahead of the final announcement.
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" Yet, the cloak-and-dagger discussion came to the foregone conclusion that there seemed to be enough evidence that Russia "has something that they can hang over the head of our president or our administration.
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Marvel Television has since also produced some critical gems, such as Freeform's "Cloak and Dagger" and the later seasons of "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.," but there's no denying that the commercial glory belongs to the movies.
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He employs former agents from intelligence agencies around the world, including the Mossad in Israel and the K.G.B. in Russia, to help him conduct cloak-and-dagger investigations in places like Russia, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan.
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Now, the dogged investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller into Russia's role in the 2016 is turning up details about Russia's cloak-and-dagger operations abroad that may well make for uncomfortable reading in the Kremlin.
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Donoghue laid out a cloak-and-dagger saga that began with Ceasar's arrest 2-1/2 years ago as he asked a judge to deny bail in a letter unsealed on Monday and dated Feb. 6.
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Even in an industry that loves to embrace the cloak-and-dagger aesthetic, it's not often a PR person contacts you to alert you to an apparent spy trying to sneak their way into a company.
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Rather, Team Cloak And Dagger gets their confession, which a petrified Connors serves up after watching Tyrone teleport towards him like a vengeful ghost and finding out the haunting won't stop until he admits his crime.
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With a new Marvel series, Cloak and Dagger, set to premiere on Freeform and additional series like Tangled: The Series and Andi Mack mixing it up on the main network, Disney is hoping something will stick.
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And it reflects the comic-book history of Cloak and Dagger, who were introduced in a Spider-Man book in 1982 and then bounced around the Marvel universe, with new writers sometimes radically overhauling their origins.
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Mr. Ulyukayev pleaded not guilty, accusing Mr. Sechin of setting up a cloak-and-dagger sting operation by proffering a gift of fine wine and homemade sausages to disguise a brown leather satchel brimming with dollars.
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A former KGB officer with a legendary cloak and dagger mentality, Russia's president has kept his family members shrouded in near-total secrecy despite almost two decades as one of the world's most powerful and recognizable figures.
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Law enforcement's use of the surveillance devices known as stingrays, fake cell towers that can intercept communications and track phones, remains as murky as it is controversial, hidden in non-disclosure agreements and cloak-and-dagger secrecy.
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In another issue of the Marvel comic Runaways, for example, an evil police detective convinces a team of impressionable super-powered teens to attack heroes Cloak and Dagger by telling them the two have kidnapped a child.
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Or, if we're going to go full cloak-and-dagger with our speculation, is this a disinformation campaign coordinated by a western intel agency to further cast suspicion on the Russian firm during the New Cold War?
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Cloak and Dagger is the story of Tandy Bowen (Olivia Holt) and Tyrone Johnson (Aubrey Joseph) – two teenagers from very different backgrounds, who find themselves burdened with newly acquired superpowers which are mysteriously linked to one another.
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Where the gentile-seeking-Jew situation becomes troubling is in the cloak-and-dagger courting on Jewish dating sites in which people feel the need to misrepresent themselves (or #FakeJews, as one Reddit user described it to me).
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There are TV shows like ABC's Marvel's Agents of SHIELD and Marvel's Inhumans, Freeform's Cloak and Dagger and New Warriors, Disney XD's Star Wars Rebels, online content, plus all the movies, and more when other licensing deals expire.
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"If you want to work successfully in the cloak and dagger battlefield of cyber, you don't want just anyone Googling your information," Omri Lavie, one of NSO's co-founders, told Defense News in 2013 in a rare interview.
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In the screen version of "Our Kind of Traitor," by contrast, Perry's relationship troubles with his wife, Gail (Naomie Harris), aren't organically integrated into the intelligence story and only siphon attention away from the cloak-and-dagger doings.
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As the investigation and attendant scandal over the flagrant killing of a renowned journalist unfolded, the world saw one Middle Eastern country with authoritarian tendencies dominate a rival neighbor in a cloak and dagger game of spy-craft.
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Aside from the pretty funny joke that she's okay working with Cloak and Dagger because she's from New York, where superheroics are more common, she's just been a poorly defined archetype: the hard-drinking, slow-to-trust good cop.
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Even the way Missouri buys and collects the drugs is cloak-and-dagger: The state sends a high-ranking corrections officer to a clandestine meeting with a company representative, exchanging an envelope full of cash for vials of pentobarbital.
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The neoliberalist sting many feel when local governments pay extremely wealthy private corporations will only be worsened by a section of the agreement that promises more of the cloak and dagger politicking Amazon tried to play in New York.
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Marvel's TV properties are more often focused on action — see: Daredevil and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. — than romance, but the blockbuster comic company is shifting to include a bit of star-crossed intrigue with its newest series, Cloak and Dagger.
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"I have never seen a tool that is on one hand treated in such a cloak-and-dagger fashion, but on the other used as a bread and butter tool," says Stephanie Pell of West Point's Army Cyber Institute.
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WASHINGTON — From the start, he was a central casting misfire — the dark artist slicing through the capital by electric scooter, a cloak-and-dagger digger better known to former colleagues for scratching his bare belly in plain office view.
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Though lacking the investigative firepower of the Federal Security Service (FSB) or the cloak-and-dagger cachet of the foreign intelligence services, the FSO possesses an invaluable resource in Russia's Byzantine system: dostup k telu, or closeness to the body.
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This decision to elevate Prince Mohammed to crown prince was no cloak-and-dagger move by the Allegiance Council, the 34-member group of Saudi royals --sons or grandsons of the King -- that ratifies the choice of the nation's ruler.
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The cloak-and-dagger undertaking, detailed in a new report on The New Yorker's website Monday, included the use of an agent who posed as a women's rights advocate to befriend and spy on one accuser, the actress Rose McGowan.
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Returning now, after some uneven stretches in Seasons 2 and 3, the show feels as vibrant as ever, with the fifth of the episodes exhibiting the kind of deft, meticulously constructed cloak-and-dagger machinations that would work as a theatrical thriller.
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The cloak-and-dagger group has cast a complex shadow on Asian pop over the past few years, through abstract audiovisual remixes that have provided everything from consciousness-expanding cultural commentary to out-and-out bangers (all too rare over here in Korea).
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FTC: You&aposll Probably Get Almost Nothing From the Equifax SettlementEver the parade-rainer, the Federal Trade Commission announced today that with so many Equifax…Read more ReadYup, no cloak-and-dagger stuff or specter of nation-state hacking of patient records.
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I was surprised when Karl Rove called me to tell me he was involved in a cloak-and-dagger plot with Bush senior, who wanted to meet me for coffee but didn't want his son to find out because it would irritate him.
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I began to ask around to find the address and eventually learned that the somewhat cloak-and-dagger affair would be held in a space on the 20th floor of the St. Regis, a luxury hotel where the cheapest rooms run about $1,000.
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Yoon Jong-bin's "The Spy Gone North," a rollicking cloak-and-dagger adventure about a South Korean agent who infiltrates North Korea, is the kind of genre title that the festival often relegates to special sections, which it did in this case.
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The sports reporting award went to Rebecca R. Ruiz of The New York Times for revealing that a Russian state-run doping program for athletes had swapped test samples and engaged in a cloak-and-dagger scheme at the 2014 Winter Olympics.
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Yet those were the elements in a real-life cloak-and-dagger drama revealed on Wednesday, when German prosecutors said they filed charges against a Swiss man accused of spying on tax collectors and even planting a mole in a local tax office.
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Considering that President Trump has criticized the reopening of diplomatic relations with Cuba, and has called it "a completely one-sided deal," it's easy to be skeptical of this as all being some sort of cloak and dagger stunt to make Cuba look bad.
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Hawley's vision and storytelling prowess help mitigate the problem, but it stands out at a time when other Marvel TV properties like Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, and even the upcoming Cloak and Dagger have moved away from centering that experience in favor of others.
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The Marvel's Cloak and Dagger star joked that her relationship with Atreo, 32, blossomed over their common love for quoting The Office, calling her fiancé her "best friend in the world" and the "only person" that can make her laugh and cry in one sitting.
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It also wouldn't change the fact that Trump welcomed and weaponized a foreign power's cloak-and-dagger efforts to undermine Hillary Clinton's candidacy and the American democratic process for his own benefit—a moral and ethical stain on his presidency that can never be lifted.
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Clive Owen is Walter Raleigh, her "favorite smoldering slab of man meat," Manohla Dargis wrote in The Times, calling the film "an overripe melodrama that's by turns a bodice-ripper, a cloak-and-dagger thriller and a serious-minded historical drama with dubious contemporary overtones."
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Disillusioned with the official script, Daniel eventually goes cloak-and-dagger rogue and is on his way to publicizing the Pentagon Papers, a momentous decision that Mr. Spielberg enlivens with spooky shadows and what may be the most nervous-making photocopying in film history.
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The spy operation, revealed on Thursday, is among dozens around the world uncovered by human rights groups and technical organizations in recent years as governments and intelligence agencies have started relying more on mobile and desktop spyware than on traditional forms of cloak-and-dagger espionage.
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A scheme known as Permanent Structured Co-operation (PESCO) was initiated in 22 and now includes almost four-dozen projects that span the prosaic (a Eurodrone), the cosmic (a space-surveillance network) and the cloak-and-dagger (a school for spooks, run by Greece and Cyprus).
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Foreign firms find it's not that simple (The New York Times) CMS halts enforcement of some Obama-era nursing home standards (Modern Healthcare) Inside Oracle's cloak-and-dagger political war with Google (Recode) Bitcoin is still a 'joke,' these finance giants say (Fortune) View the discussion thread.
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The former head of church security described elaborate cloak-and-dagger efforts taken to avoid scrutiny from outside law enforcement, such as using "burner" cellphones, encrypted radios and driving 40 miles to make phone calls out of fear that a local cell tower was being monitored by investigators.
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Now Hulu is getting into the Marvel game with Runaways, one of several new shows Marvel is producing for the 2017-18 TV season (along with Freeform's Cloak and Dagger and the currently homeless New Warriors) which has sparked a new round of speculation — is it really all connected?
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Cloak and Dagger, aka Tandy Bowen and Tyrone Johnson, played by Disney Channel alumnae Olivia Holt and Aubrey Joseph (HBO's The Night Of), respectively, looks like it's more akin to the CW's superhero shows with its dark, brooding tone and its balance of comic-book action and angst.
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One version — from Ellen Nakashima, Adam Entous, and Greg Miller of the Washington Post — is full of ominous portent, suggesting Kushner was embarked on a kind of amateur hour cloak and dagger scheme whose purpose was to allow Trump to conceal communications with Russia from America's own intelligence services.
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But in broad terms, you don't need to resort to any cloak and dagger theories or secret classified information to know what you need to know: Trump has a weirdly sunny view of Putin, an alarming lack of attachment to America's treaty obligations, and some serious skeletons in his closet.
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Because if you are putting yourself out there as a friend of media in order to get them to use your platform, having a director go undercover rogue in some cloak-and-dagger revenge plot to decimate a publisher is probably going to be an issue that needs some discussion.
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Occupational psychologists Peter Fleming and Andrew Sturdy studied exactly why employers might be so keen on so much "informal bonding" and found that fun and games can be a kind of cloak and dagger, hiding long hours and low wages under a veneer of employee perks like office parties and karaoke lunches.
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"Dead Pigeon" is self-consciously trendy in its percussive zoom shots and hyperkinetic montages, as well as casually outlandish in its locations (a shootout in a maternity ward; a cloak-and-dagger rendezvous at the Beethoven-Haus museum in Bonn; Cologne's annual carnival, in which a killer clown lurks among the costumed participants).
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Largely forgotten today, the "Marigold Affair," involving diplomats on both sides of the Iron Curtain, stands out as much for its cloak-and-dagger Cold War intrigue as it does for its significance — for in it lies an object lesson in why a negotiated peace was so hard to achieve in Vietnam.
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For the past year, the software and cloud computing giant has mounted a cloak-and-dagger, take-no-prisoners lobbying campaign against Google, perhaps hoping to cause the company intense political and financial pain at a time when the two tech giants are also warring in federal court over allegations of stolen computer code.
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Once in the field, Stephanie's exploits have a certain freshness because she's such novice at this sort of cloak-and-dagger fare that she makes a mess of things, and her early encounters are more brutal and raw -- and thus distinctive -- than the highly stylized and choreographed movie fights and chases with which we're familiar.
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Kim's trip remains somewhat shrouded in mystery — the whole thing was incredibly cloak-and-dagger, even involving a mysterious green bulletproof train that Kim rode to and from Beijing — but Chinese state-run media said that Kim accepted an invitation from Xi for a face-to-face meeting to discuss the current nuclear standoff.
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And as her work has gone from cloak-and-dagger to point-and-click, her clients have changed as well: There are fewer jealous husbands trying to sniff out infidelity, she said, and more women who, on the verge of a relationship, are trying to protect themselves from a broken heart, a scam or something much worse.
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The awards show was so in flux until the last minute that, when Tina Fey, Amy Poehler and Maya Rudolph took the stage — which was shaped, for some reason, like the cross-section of a baked alaska — it seemed that the Oscars might have pulled off a cloak-and-dagger feat, hiring a troika of surprise hosts.
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To communicate with the journalists who would publish his secrets, he had to route all his messages over the anonymity software Tor, teach reporters to use the encryption tool PGP by creating a YouTube tutorial that disguised his voice, and eventually ditch his comfortable life (and smartphone) in Hawaii to set up a cloak-and-dagger data handoff halfway around the world.
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A battle between Apple and an app developer has caught Congress' attentionInside Oracle's cloak-and-dagger political war with GoogleNearly 80 percent of female tech founders have experienced sexual harassment at work or know someone who has It's unclear who will ultimately participate in the round, but it appears that all of Silicon Valley's top VC firms have looked at the startup.
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While other moments offer more conventional cloak and dagger fare, it is this mental chess game between Eichmann and Malkin that showcases a very different kind of tradecraft, one in which Eichmann emerges as a loving father, and even a somewhat empathic friend who understands the depth of Malkin's loss and professes to have been merely a "cog" in the machinery of murder.
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Though we may never know the details of what was said by negotiators in working on the Iran nuclear deal, the hostage matters and the frozen funds from 1981, the picture of forklifts moving pallets loaded with mountains of euros and Swiss francs, "Breaking Bad"-style, adds to the image of U.S.-Iran negotiations as a cloak-and-dagger operation in which Iran continues to run circles around the United States.
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The New York Times did great reporting on this, and I'm sure a lot of your listeners know this, but there was this cloak-and-dagger system to actually change urine but with a hole in the wall to bring the urine bottle in, urine specimen in, that then would be clean so that a cheating athlete would get away with and get a clean drug test and then keep their medal.
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Beyond the astronomical subsidies being offered to Amazon in exchange for 25,000 promised jobs, the coalition—which includes City Council Member Stephen Levin, state senators Jessica Ramos and Julia Salazar, state assembly members Michael Blake, Latrice Walker and Ron Kim, and U.S. Representative-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez—was broadly critical of the cloak-and-dagger tactics Amazon used to secure the deal, which Governor Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio have attempted to paint as a boon to the city.
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