cloak-and-dagger man

America’s FBI has a dedicated-hostage rescue team, but many government forces are badly trained so families instead turn to security firms, says Douglas McDonald, a former American cloak-and-dagger man who runs NIA, a security firm which works mainly in Latin America and has trained government officials to deal with kidnappers.

His narrative runs from the early 1930s through the end of World War II, covering journalistic sojourns abroad and in Fleet Street and wartime experiences as a cloak-and-dagger man in Africa and Europe.

At the same time, the President announced the appointment of Richard McGarrah Helms, 52, an experienced CIA cloak-and-dagger man, as Raborn's top deputy.

This lack of an explanation and the fact that the information was to be sent directly to a high-powered intelligence group within Air Force Headquarters stirred the imagination of every potential cloak-and-dagger man in the military intelligence system.