i amk going to post this again b4 it gets closed
I am going to cut to the chase because lefties are going to start shrieking out.
"spook" is a term used for deep government agents.
https://www.quora.com/Why-are-people-in-the-CIA-called-spooksIn intelligence circles, there are three sorts of operations:
Public ones. Nothing secret, everything in the public domain. These are acknowledged and sanctioned by the government.
Covert ones. Secret, they are not acknowledged but sanctioned by the government.
Clandestine ones. Secret, not acknowledged, and not sanctioned by the government.
People working in clandestine operations are called spooks. Those in covert operations are called covert operatives, and those in public operations just operatives.
It was the British who first introduced the term in the early 20th century.The 20th century began on January 1, 1901, and ended on December 31, 2000. The 20th century was dominated by significant events that defined the modern era: Spanish flu pandemic, World War I and World ... Wikipedia
i wonder when it became a racist term and who did that??
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i found this
The racist history of the word "spook."
https://boingboing.net/2020/10/22/the-racist-history-of-the-word-spook.htmlexcerpt
It wasn't until World War II that spook started to refer to black people. The black Army pilots who trained at the Tuskegee Institute were referred to as the "Spookwaffe" — waffe being the German word for weapon, or gun. (Luftwaffe was the name of the German air force).
ya and the tuskegee where accomplished air men so the term "spook" might have been a reference to that? any way "spook" as a government spy term predates the racist bullchit.
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more stuff
imo interesting article
When were spies first called spooks?
[...] The verb is first recorded 1867 in sense of "to walk or act like a ghost". Show activity on this post. A spook is the agent tasked with "erasing an issue".
Why are spies called "spooks"? - etymology - English Stack ..
https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/2340/why-are-spies-called-spooks-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
maybe one day i will talk about definitions of words get changed. sometime definitions get changed for agendas?
This post was edited by TiStuff on Jun 2 2022 03:02pm