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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of exfiltrate.

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Examples

  • Only in 1981, just before the communist regime actually declared martial law, was Kuklinski finally "exfiltrated" out of the country, after a leak from the U.S. government -- possibly via the Vatican -- had compromised him.

    AN HONORABLE SOLDIER 2007

  • The most extraordinary claim was that the men were to be "exfiltrated" via a submarine waiting for them off the Libyan coast, the paper said.

    The Guardian World News 2010

  • The most extraordinary claim was that the men were to be "exfiltrated" via a submarine waiting for them off the Libyan coast, the paper said.

    The Guardian World News 2010

  • An East German agent resident in Leipzig would have to be "exfiltrated" to be brought out permanently, as opposed to coming out for a short visit. fieldman, deskman, preliminary interrogation, surveillance, case officer, operational subsistence, courier, and cryptonym are lumped together by Mr. Lasseter as "literal and transparent enough for the layman to understand."

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IX No 2 1982

  • Before the uprisings that continue to shake the established power structure of the Arabic world, Clinton's speech would have been considered nearly wholly in response to the issue of Wikileaks and "Cablegate," where thousands of diplomatic cables were exfiltrated from the State Department and distributed into hundreds of servers.

    Alexander Howard: Secretary Clinton doubles down on Internet freedom at the State Department Alexander Howard 2011

  • Before the uprisings that continue to shake the established power structure of the Arabic world, Clinton's speech would have been considered nearly wholly in response to the issue of Wikileaks and "Cablegate," where thousands of diplomatic cables were exfiltrated from the State Department and distributed into hundreds of servers.

    Alexander Howard: Secretary Clinton doubles down on Internet freedom at the State Department Alexander Howard 2011

  • I explained that every piece of valuable intelligence was exfiltrated with the evacuation and that we had welded all access doors closed to prevent tampering by anyone or anything.

    Day by Day Armageddon: Beyond Exile J.L. Bourne 2010

  • We reveal here that prefect Érignac was not directly killed by the nationalists, but by a paid killer, immediately exfiltrated to Angola, where he was hired to the security of the Elf group.

    sarkozy – cia – rothschilds – mafia 2008

  • I explained that every piece of valuable intelligence was exfiltrated with the evacuation and that we had welded all access doors closed to prevent tampering by anyone or anything.

    Day by Day Armageddon: Beyond Exile J.L. Bourne 2010

  • Your ancestors and their colleagues welcomed as many of our officers and men as could be exfiltrated to safety and new lives serving the Cause in the West.

    A Fan Letter from Hell 2008

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