4 sentences with “covert”

The status of married women as covert wives did not change as a result of the Revolution, and wives remained economically dependent on their husbands.

Hakim had bank accounts with "company" money, which they called "the reserves". One of those funds contained $2 million earmarked for covert operations.

In 18th century America, as in Britain, the legal status of married women was defined as "coverture", which meant that a married woman (or feme covert) had no legal or economic status independent of her husband. She could not do business or buy or sell property.

North stated that Casey had instructed him to work with Secord and set up "the company", and that he agreed to Secord and Hakim setting their own commissions. If true, Abrams notes, this would contrast with the rest of his record as CIA director. Casey organised covert operations around the world, but "there is no evidence of anything like this in Angola, Afghanistan, or anywhere else".