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Noun
cover name (plural cover names)
- (espionage, military) A name used to clandestinely identify somebody or something for confidentiality.
- 1922, UK Parliament, Report in the Case of Sir Edgar Speyer, London, p. 7
- By the time that he landed in New York early in June, 1915, Sir Edgar Speyer had good cause to be well aware that the Government was strongly opposed to any communication, direct or indirect, with enemy country and to all attempts to evade the censorship of letters and cables, whether by the use of code words or cover names;
- 1941, Richard Krebs (as Jan Valtin), Out of the Night, New York: Alliance Book Corporation, Chapter 31, p. 493,
- The map of Germany was in my head—its cities, rivers, railroad schedules. I memorized a long string of names and cover names
1990, John Le Carré, The Secret Pilgrim, Toronto: Pengin, published 1991, page 150:‘That’s a new one for us, isn’t it, Toby? A spy using his own name as a covername? I mean why bother any more? You’re Toby, so we’ll keep it a secret and call you Toby instead. Great.’
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