| 单词 | black bag job |
| 释义 | > as lemmasblack bag job black bag adj. [from the black bag in which equipment required for such an operation was typically carried] U.S. colloquial (now chiefly historical) designating a covert intelligence operation carried out esp. by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, involving illegal entry into premises; esp. in black bag job.Such operations were declared to be unconstitutional in the United States in the early 1970s. ΘΚΠ society > law > law enforcement > investigation of crime > [adjective] > types of search no-knock1964 black bag1966 stop and frisk1967 stop-and-search1974 1966 Los Angeles Times 23 Aug. ii. 6/6 The new man [to lead the C.I.A.] probably also ought to be an outsider (with no interest in covering up past mistakes or prolonging old quarrels) given to study and evaluation (rather than black-bag tricks). 1972 Albuquerque (New Mexico) Jrnl. 25 June a5/3 The abortive black-bag job of the Democratic National Committee headquarters by five yo-yos..has plumbed the very depths of outrageous activity. 2000 T. Clancy Bear & Dragon vii. 110 Now it's called ‘special operations’; back then it was a ‘black bag job’—and we weren't always very careful about getting a warrant. < as lemmas |
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