black op

or black operation

noun

1. Often black ops. a secret mission or campaign carried out by a military, governmental, or other organization, typically one in which the organization conceals or denies its involvement:

   Some national intelligence agencies use black ops to undermine enemy governments.

   The company even resorted to an industrial black op to steal secrets from its competitor.

Word History and Origins

Origin of black op¹

First recorded in 1940–50

Example Sentences

And this was when the war was going well, before the world saw cruel images from Abu Ghraib prison, learned all that it knows now about CIA black op sites, waterboarding, years of Guantanamo Bay detention without charges or trials — and before the rise of the brutal Islamic State.

From Seattle Times

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From BBC

The lawyer made a startling, though believable, allegation: that Halliburton, in conjunction with the Rand Corporation, had a master plan to instigate this sort of sex-and-humiliation-type torture at various “black op” sites, to record such torture in photos and videos, and to hold those images under lock and key as “ammunition” until such time as they might be needed to divert attention away from the Persian Gulf and the Big Oil free-for-all going on there.

From Salon

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From Fox News

When Ms Harper complained, she claims she was targeted in a "black op" in a failed attempt to criminalise and discredit her.

From BBC