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a drop used for the clandestine exchange of intelligence information
a dead drop avoids the need for an intelligence officer and a spy to be present at the same time
How To Use dead drop In A Sentence
- A tin can filled with information - part of a dead drop - was smeared with messy motor oil.
- A cleaning out of the usual dead drops takes us beyond the computer world and elint electronic intelligence into humint—a blendword formed by human and intelligence. The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
- He passes by the dead drop and deposits the message casually, without arousing suspicion.
- But after becoming bat can't carry on an attack and absorb blood, defendoofing the dint would also the nasty play descend, so incautious words would more easy the dead drop .
- He also trundled documents by the cartload to ‘dead drops’ in various suburbs around Washington.
- a dead drop avoids the need for an intelligence officer and a spy to be present at the same time
