safe house

Like John le Carré, he creates his own jargon: safe houses are “coops,” spycraft is “artifice,” freelance agents are “units” and deep-cover moles are “termites.”

After his exchange for Rudolf Abel—dramatized in Steven Spielberg’s 2015 film Bridge of Spies—Francis Gary Powers was taken directly to a CIA safe house in rural Maryland and grilled for days on end.

Hakan, not his real name, is now living in a safe house in north-east England but was enslaved for a decade, experiencing regular beatings and abuse.

The victim was unharmed but has now been moved to a safe house.

She also tweeted that “the suspect escaped into the Antifa safe house.”