Q Post 3586" Define 'black op' [clandestine]" Since Q wants us to look into BLACK OP I did. Here is some of what I found. "A black operation (black op for short) is a covert operation which is done by a government or military. Black operations are secret and whoever does them DOES NOT ADMIT THAT THEY EVER HAPPENED. There are differences between black operations and ones which are just secret. The main difference is that a black operation often uses DECEPTION. This deception might be not telling anybody who did the operation. It might also be blaming the operation on someone else ("FALSE FLAG" operations). One example of a black operation is a "black bag operation".A black bag operation is when agents or soldiers secretly go into buildings and collect intelligence. It is known that the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Central Intelligence Agency, Mossad, MI6 and other intelligence services have done operations like these. Where the word comes from The word "black" can be used for any secret action done by a government. For example, some militaries and intelligence services have classified "BLACK BUDGETS" to carry out black operations. Almost all details about this budget is hidden from the public   ISN'T THAT NICE? Examples of black operations In 2007, the Central Intelligence Agency declassified some secret records. In these records, it was found that CIA had illegally spied on people in the United States. It had also planned assassinations, kidnapping and other black operations." https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_operation The CIA “FAMILY JEWELS,” Then and Now Posted on Nov.04, 2013 in Intelligence by Steven Aftergood "In 1973, the Director of Central Intelligence ordered CIA officials to prepare a descriptive account of all CIA activities that were “outside the legislative charter of this Agency,” which is to say unauthorized or illegal.  The purpose of the exercise was to identify operations that had “flap potential,” meaning that they could embarrass the Agency or embroil it in controversy. The resulting 700-page CIA compendium of unlawful domestic surveillance, wiretapping, mail opening and detention actions became known as “the family jewels.”  It helped to inform and to substantiate the investigations of intelligence in the 1970s.  The document was finally declassified (with some redactions) in 2007 and was released to the National Security Archive, which has posted it here. In a new book entitled “The Family Jewels: The CIA, Secrecy, and Presidential Power” (University of Texas Press, 2013), historian John Prados reviews the origins and consequences of the family jewels document and the operations described in it. The thrust of Prados’ book is that the CIA family jewels are not simply relics of a discrete historical period, but rather that they are exemplars of a RECURRING PATTERN of INTELLIGENCE MISCONDUCT. Many of the specific abuses of the 1970s, he argues, can be understood as archetypes that have been manifested repeatedly, UP TO THE PRESENT DAY." https://fas.org/blogs/secrecy/2013/11/family-jewels/