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  2. Clandestine HUMINT and covert action - Wikipedia

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    "Political warfare is the logical application of Clausewitz's doctrine in time of peace. In broadest definition, political warfare is the employment of all the means at a nation's command, short of war, to achieve its national objectives. Such operations are both overt and covert.

  3. Attention - Wikipedia

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    Attention may be differentiated into "overt" versus "covert" orienting. [50] Overt orienting is the act of selectively attending to an item or location over others by moving the eyes to point in that direction. [51] Overt orienting can be directly observed in the form of eye movements.

  4. Covert operation - Wikipedia

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    A covert operation or undercover operation is a military or police operation involving a covert agent or troops acting under an assumed cover to conceal the identity ...

  5. Covert prestige - Wikipedia

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    From a sociolinguistic perspective, the Murcian speech community shows is a competing balance between overt and covert prestige. On one end, the Standard Castilian Spanish dialect is an overtly acknowledged prestige variety. The local values, however, make nonstandard features of the Murcian dialect be maintained in colloquial speech as a ...

  6. Clandestine operation - Wikipedia

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    While secrecy and stealthiness are often desired in clandestine and covert operations, the terms secret and stealthy are not used to formally describe types of missions. Some operations may have both clandestine and covert aspects, such as the use of concealed remote sensors or human observers to direct artillery attacks and airstrikes. The ...

  7. Overt act - Wikipedia

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    In criminal law, an overt act is the one that can be clearly proved by evidence and from which criminal intent can be inferred, as opposed to a mere intention in the mind to commit a crime. [1] Such an act, even if innocent per se , can potentially be used as evidence against someone during a trial to show participation in a crime. [ 2 ]

  8. Orienting system - Wikipedia

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    The brain pathway that orients visual attention to a stimulus is referred to as the orienting system.There are two main types of visual orientations, covert (exogenous) which occurs when a salient environmental change causes a shift in attention and overt (endogenous) which occurs when the individual makes a conscious decision to orient attention to a stimuli [1] During a covert orientation of ...

  9. Attentional shift - Wikipedia

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    Results showed overlap in activated areas for overt and covert attention shifts, mainly in the parietal and frontal lobes. However, one area was shown to be specific to covert attention, which was the right dorsolateral cortex; typically associated with voluntary attention shifts and working memory .