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	Nonofficial Cover
		Nonofficial cover is contrasted with official cover, where an agent assumes a position at a seemingly benign department of their government, such as the diplomatic service.
		If caught, agents under nonofficial cover are usually trained to deny any connection with their government, and do not have many of the protections offered to (for example) accredited diplomats who are caught spying.
		Some countries have regulations regarding the use of nonofficial cover—the CIA, for example, has at times been prohibited from disguising agents as members of certain aid organizations, or as members of the clergy.
	www.seattleluxury.com /encyclopedia/entry/Nonofficial_cover (349 words)

	Los Angeles Times: Shades of Cover (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Plame's cover — in which she posed as a private energy consultant while actually working for a CIA department tracking weapons proliferation — was somewhere in the middle of those extremes.
		Plame worked under official cover early in her career, but moved to nonofficial cover during the 1990s, maintaining that status after she returned from overseas to work at CIA headquarters.
		Despite her continued use of commercial cover until Novak's column, some former CIA officials contend she was not a NOC in the purest sense of the term, because operatives in that super-secret program rarely go near agency facilities, let alone take jobs at headquarters.
	fairuse.1accesshost.com /news3/latimes120.html (2025 words)

	frontline: son of al qaeda: readings: human intelligence collection \| PBS
		Nonofficial cover refers to any other type of disguise -- as a businessman, journalist, tourist, etc. -- that could explain why the officer is in the host country.
		A nonofficial cover officer may also disguise his nationality and pretend to be from a country other than the one whose intelligence officer he is.
		His most important mission, however, was to preserve his cover so that he would be able, in case of a break in diplomatic relations between the USSR and Canada, to take control of the network of Canadian sources form the legal "resident" (chief of the KGB station at the Soviet embassy in Ottawa).
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/khadr/readings/humint.html (7992 words)

	Non-official cover - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Non-official cover (NOC) is a term used in espionage (particularly by the CIA) for an agent or operative who assumes a covert role in an organization without ties to the government he or she is working for.
		An agent sent to spy on a foreign country might for instance pose as a journalist, a businessperson, a worker for a non-profit organization (such as a humanitarian group), or an academic.
		Another is Brewster Jennings and Associates, used by the CIA in WMD investigations, and made famous by the Plame Affair.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nonofficial_cover (374 words)

	CIA Identity Leak Far Worse Than Reported
		Plame, the wife of former ambassador and Bush critic Joseph Wilson, was a member of a small elite-within-an-elite, a CIA employee operating under "nonofficial cover," in her case as an energy analyst, with little or no protection from the U.S. government if she got caught.
		While that might seem like flimsy cover, former intelligence officials say that in fact meticulous steps are taken to create a life-like legend to support and protect CIA officers operating under nonofficial cover.
		The corps of officers using nonofficial cover is small, said former CIA analyst Melvin Goodman, a critic of Bush's handling of intelligence.
	www.rense.com /general42/worse.htm (1026 words)

	CIA myths \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		Yet Langley tenaciously guards the cover myth – that camouflage for case officers is of paramount importance to its operations and the health of its operatives.
		Know the truth about cover – that it is the Achilles' heel of the clandestine service – and you will begin to appreciate how deeply dysfunctional the operations directorate has been for years.
		Given the low standards the agency often uses with its headquarter-based nonofficial cover, Plame probably could still, if she dyed and shortened her hair, fly overseas and do whatever she might have been doing before she recommended her husband for his Africa sojourn.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20051120/news_lz1e20cia.html (1409 words)

	washingtonpost.com: The Wrong Changes For the CIA
		According to active-duty CIA officers, there is a general realization that the number of nonofficial operatives needs to go up: It's difficult even to imagine scenarios in which the CIA's fake diplomats -- the people under official cover -- can meet, let alone "develop" possible agents who might be useful against the Islamic extremist target.
		An officially covered case officer posted to Yemen trying to fish in fundamentalist circles would be immediately spotted by the internal security service, to say nothing of fundamentalists.
		Meanwhile, nonofficial cover officers working in the Middle East are, according to active-duty case officers, still mostly doing short-term work, flying in and out on brief assignments.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A52750-2005Jan31?language=printer (873 words)

	Bruce Berkowitz: Deep Cover (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Official cover was effective during much of the twentieth century because most intelligence targets were in places where you could make a plausible case for having U.S. officials present.
		The search for the sunken liner Titanic was, in effect, a cover for a highly classified Navy program to inspect the wrecks of two lost Navy submarines: the Thresher, which sank 200 miles off the coast of Cape Cod in 1963, and the Scorpion, which was lost in the mid-Atlantic in 1967.
		The cover story was as implausible as it sounds, and the project ran for just over a year before its true purpose was blown (at a cost of tens of millions of dollars) by the Los Angeles Times in 1975.
	www.hooverdigest.org /024/berkowitz.html (3253 words)

	Valerie Plame: Under Cover - Sean Hannity Discussion
		Plame's cover -- in which she posed as a private energy consultant while actually working for a CIA department tracking weapons proliferation -- was somewhere in the middle of those extremes.
		A more rare and dangerous job category is "nonofficial cover" -- or "NOC" (pronounced knock) -- in which CIA officers pose as employees of international corporations, as scientists or as members of other professions.
		She had been under official cover and non official cover at the agency.
	www.hannity.com /forum/showthread.php?t=17928 (1569 words)

	The Seattle Times: Nation & World: Web blows CIA agents' cover
		Several "front companies" set up to provide cover for CIA operatives and its small fleet of aircraft recently began disappearing from the Internet, after disclosures that some planes were used to transport suspected terrorists to countries where they claimed to have been tortured.
		Although finding and repairing the vulnerabilities in the CIA's cover system was not a priority under Goss' predecessor, George Tenet, one senior U.S. official observed that "the Internet Age didn't get here in 2004," the year Goss took over at the CIA.
		The problem, Goodman said, is that transforming a CIA officer who has worked under "diplomatic cover" into a "nonofficial cover" operator, or NOC — as was attempted with Plame — creates vulnerabilities that are not difficult to spot later on.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/nationworld/2002859980_cia12.html (1010 words)

	Jeff Quinton - Backcountry Conservative: Internet blows CIA agents' cover (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		She is 52 years old, married, grew up in the Kansas City suburbs and now lives in Virginia in a three-bedroom house.
		Only recently has the CIA recognized that in the Internet age its traditional system of providing cover for clandestine employees working overseas is fraught with holes, a discovery that is said to have "horrified" CIA Director Porter J. Goss.
		The problem, Goodman said, is that transforming a CIA officer who has worked under "diplomatic cover" into a "nonofficial cover" operator, or NOC -- as was attempted with Valerie Plame -- creates vulnerabilities that are not difficult to spot later on.
	www.jquinton.com /archives/003259.html (763 words)

	CNN.com - Transcripts
		I want to clear up some confusion, because I have heard Ambassador Wilson's wife been called an analyst, an operative, an agent, that she was not an OC, nonofficial cover, that in fact she was undercover.
		Whether it was light cover, whether it was heavy cover, whether it was not official cover is really irrelevant to the issue that the cover, whatever it may have been, has been blown and the agent has been exposed.
		When you travel overseas, you have a number of different covers for whatever action you may have that gives you plausible deniability to deny that you're working on behalf of the CIA or the United States government.
	edition.cnn.com /TRANSCRIPTS/0310/06/ltm.04.html (610 words)

	The Randi Rhodes Show - Message Board
		Plame, the wife of former ambassador and Bush critic Joseph Wilson, was a member of a small elite-within-an-elite, a CIA employee operating under "nonofficial cover," in her case as an energy analyst, with little or no protection from the U.S. government if she got caught.
		While that might seem like flimsy cover, former intelligence officials say that in fact meticulous steps are taken to create a life-like legend to support and protect CIA officers operating under nonofficial cover.
		The corps of officers using nonofficial cover is small, said former CIA analyst Melvin Goodman, a critic of Bush's handling of intelligence.
	forums.therandirhodesshow.com /index.php?showtopic=1656 (1004 words)

	Politics Blog » Blog Archive » Playing the blame game (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Rustmann, who spent 20 of his 24 years in the agency in what is called “nonofficial cover” — the official name for real spooks and known in the agency as a “NOC” — said Mrs.
		When she was a NOC, she posed as an analyst for a shell company in Boston — Brewster Jennings & Associates, set up by the agency.
		A lot of blame could be put on to central cover staff and the agency because they weren’t minding the store here,” he said.
	blogs.washingtontimes.com /insiderpolitics/?p=288 (752 words)

	CTC International Group Limited
		Though Plame's cover is now blown, it probably began to unravel years ago when Wilson first asked her out.
		Rustmann describes Plame as an "exceptional officer" but says her ability to remain under cover was jeopardized by her marriage in 1998 to the higher-profile American diplomat.
		Plame all but came in from the cold last week, making her first public appearance, at a Washington lunch in honor of her husband, who was receiving an award for whistle blowing.
	www.ctcintl.com /NOCNOC.shtml (1077 words)

	How deep is CIA cover? - By Ed Finn - Slate Magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		One former intelligence officer described this as "the cover you use if your airplane gets hijacked": It's safe enough to use on a quick visit overseas, say to meet with intelligence counterparts in a friendly country, but insufficient cover for spies stationed abroad.
		When using official cover could put a spy's life and work at risk, NOC is the only alternative.
		If this is true, her discovery could compromise intelligence operations she was involved with around the world, which would explain why she maintained her nonofficial cover even when she was back in the United States.
	slate.msn.com /id/2089062 (1015 words)

	The Big Lie About Valerie Plame \| TPMCafe
		If we were caught overseas engaged in espionage activity the fl passport was a get out of jail free card.
		A few of my classmates, and Valerie was one of these, became a non-official cover officer.
		That meant she agreed to operate overseas without the protection of a diplomatic passport.
	www.tpmcafe.com /story/2005/7/13/04720/9340 (537 words)

	Oped 1 -- The Daily Cougar Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Valerie Plame was a former spy with nonofficial cover, a "NOC," in the Central Intelligence Agency.
		With the "nonofficial" cover, they are allowed to see those who others cannot.
		They are basically like tightrope walkers without a net, while official undercover spies have the backing of their government if they are caught.
	www.stp.uh.edu /vol70/156/opinion/oped1.html (615 words)

	OpinionJournal - Extra
		Plame might have at times been while serving at headquarters in the Counter-Proliferation Division, is a much less secure cover, workable on very short-term assignments overseas, but paper-thin when confronted by knowledgeable folks in the cover profession.
		Given the low standards the agency often uses with its HQ-based nonofficial cover, Ms.
		Plame potentially to expose herself by recommending such an overt mission for her mate, not known for his subtlety and discretion.
	www.opinionjournal.com /extra/?id=110007522 (1400 words)

	World O'Crap
		If the analyst is on the record as a CIA employee, the local intelligence service would presumably make it point to watch her closely while she was in country, and so anyone she met (operations officers, assets, etc.) would be in jeopardy, as she might be also, while she was there.
		And since whatever sources or methods which were used to build Plame's cover were presumably also used to provide cover for other CIA employees, THEIR cover might now be jeopardized (hopefully, they are U.S.based analysts too, and not in any immediate danger of dying or anything).
		And, since it costs money to provide cover, and these mechanisms may well have to be changed -- at a minium, Plame's cover will now have to be removed and her job duties changed-- Bob and the SAOs have cost the taxpayers some money.
	blogs.salon.com /0002874/2003/09/30.html (2626 words)

	Investigation? No, Bush should pick up the phone=The Hill.com= (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		We know that two senior members of the Bush administration intentionally blew the cover of an undercover CIA officer whose job is combating weapons of mass destruction (WMD) proliferation.
		CIA agents work under different sorts of “cover.” There’s “official cover” — like when an agent is assigned to a U.S. embassy under the guise that he or she is a foreign service officer.
		And, at a minimum, any operation that she may once have been involved in is probably now fatally compromised, any company which provided her cover is now exposed.
	www.hillnews.com /marshall/073003.aspx (846 words)

	The Randi Rhodes Show - Message Board
		Enough excuse-making. We know that two senior members of the Bush administration intentionally blew the cover of an undercover CIA officer whose job is combating weapons of mass destruction (WMD) proliferation.
		This isnÂ’t that easy an argument to refute since, precisely because Plame is a covert agent, itÂ’s difficult to find out just what she does or precisely what her status is. My sources tell me that Plame formerly worked abroad under nonofficial cover and has more recently worked stateside.
		And, at a minimum, any operation that she may once have been involved in is probably now fatally compromised, any company which provided her cover is now exposed. However that may be, though, just how deep undercover does a CIA operative have to be before blowing her cover becomes a problem?
	forums.therandirhodesshow.com /index.php?showtopic=1317 (855 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Tuesday Jul 19th, 2005 7:52 AM As pressure mounts for President Bush to fire senior adviser Karl Rove for his role in the outing of undercover CIA operative Valerie Plame, we take a look at her reported work as a "NOC" - "nonofficial cover".
		The Los Angeles Times reported this weekend, that Plame worked under what is known as "nonofficial cover" or NOC.
		He was the first American reporter to cover the CIA's Non-Official Cover program, or NOC.
	www.indybay.org /newsitems/2005/07/19/17540081.php?printable=true (389 words)

	Plame affair - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Nonofficial cover – Status under which Plame may have operated
		The bipartisan Senate Intelligence report stated that Wilson's report was actually viewed by the CIA as bolstering the belief that Iraq was trying to acquire "yellowcake" to reconstitute his nuclear WMD program.
		Wilson's cover was blown, the Administration's ability to track Iran's nuclear ambitions was damaged as well.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Plame_affair (6376 words)

	The CIA Crosses Over
		Serving under what is referred to as "nonofficial cover" (NOC), CIA officers pose as American businessmen in friendly countries, from Asia to Central America to Western Europe.
		Using their business covers, they seek to recruit agents in foreign government economic ministries or gain intelligence about high-tech firms in computer, electronics, and aerospace industries.
		Because NOCs do not have the diplomatic immunity that protects CIA officers operating under embassy cover, if they are exposed they are subject to arrest and imprisonment--and they can be executed as spies.
	www.motherjones.com /news/feature/1995/01/dreyfuss.html (2485 words)

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