spookdom

But that is presumably not the parallel that the grand-duke of spookdom had in mind.

State Security, Post-Soviet Style 2010

This is a common practice in journalism, or I should say in spookdom maybe, not journalism.

CNN Transcript Dec 4, 2005 2005

The function which needs to be removed from the FBI is not the murky world of spookdom, but the every day business of crime and investigation.

Archive 2004-04-01 2004

- Rebecca Traister The Porn Identity Note to George Tenet: If Gong Show host Chuck Barris was, as he has claimed in his memoirs, an assassin for the C.I.A., then perhaps there's a former schoolmate you might want to recruit during these dark days of spookdom: Ron Jeremy.

Bard of Central Park 2002

- Rebecca Traister The Porn Identity Note to George Tenet: If Gong Show host Chuck Barris was, as he has claimed in his memoirs, an assassin for the C.I.A., then perhaps there's a former schoolmate you might want to recruit during these dark days of spookdom: Ron Jeremy.

Bard of Central Park 2002

- Rebecca Traister The Porn Identity Note to George Tenet: If Gong Show host Chuck Barris was, as he has claimed in his memoirs, an assassin for the C.I.A., then perhaps there's a former schoolmate you might want to recruit during these dark days of spookdom: Ron Jeremy.

Bard of Central Park 2002

I became a pseudo crisis-control officer, dealing with action officers from the CIA, NSA, DIA, NSC — the whole alphabet soup of spookdom.

Rogue Warrior Marcinko, Richard 1992

It was the prime directive of spookdom: commerce transcends ideology.

The Kaisho Lustbader, Eric 1983

August sun, and stared into the gleaming eyes before him -- he was obliged to admit the extreme probability of spookdom.

Animal Ghosts Or, Animal Hauntings and the Hereafter Elliott O'Donnell 1918