spookspeak

The films are, naturally, short but contain explosive and even political issues like Katherin McInnis 'spookspeak, a four-minute film parodying the National Security Agency's Echelon electronic eavesdropping program (perfect subject matter for a cell phone film).

Cell Phone As P.C Scanner 2006

"The idea behind spookspeak is to warn people that their conversations might not be private," said McInnis, a San Francisco-based visual artist and documentary filmmaker.

Pocket Films Get Political 2006

The films are, naturally, short but contain explosive and even political issues like Katherin McInnis 'spookspeak, a four-minute film parodying the National Security Agency's Echelon electronic eavesdropping program (perfect subject matter for a cell phone film).

Pocket Films Get Political 2006

Four years after that FBI report was written, the word sleeper moved from spookspeak jargon into the general language.

The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004

A dead drop is a noun phrase; drop-dead is a compound adjective and is not spookspeak unless in a formulation like “Mata Hari took the SCI document to her dead drop in a drop-dead dress.”

The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004

Shnook is not proper spookspeak and surely confused the KGB control in charge of the mole.

The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004

Unless, of course, some skilled dialectologist in the KGB concocted the file in order to place Hanssen in our hands as a grand dangle, but that is what spookspeak calls sickthink .

The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004

Shnook is not proper spookspeak and surely confused the KGB control in charge of the mole.

The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004

I asked Wise if he had picked up any of the latest spookspeak from Yasenovo, the suburban Moscow headquarters of the KGB.

The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004

In pursuit of the nuances of spookspeak, the arcane language of the intelligence “community,” I have been in correspondence with Aldrich Ames.

The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004