The operations are reputed to have been handled by theCIA and by theKGB's SpecBureau 13 (Spets Byuro 13), known as the "Department of Wet Affairs" (Otdel mokrykh del).[5][6][7]
According toFrank Sheeran, the first conversation he had withJimmy Hoffa over the phone, where Hoffa started by saying, "I heard you paint houses"—a mob code meaning: I heard you kill people, the "paint" being the blood spatter from the gunshot.[8]
^Becket, Henry S. A. (1986).The Dictionary of Espionage: Spookspeak into English. Stein & Day.
^wet work. Definition on Merriam-Webster (accessed Feb 2024)
^Maksimov, S. V. (1869). "Музыка или словарь карманников, т. е. столичных воров (Music or a dictionary of pickpockets, i.e. metropolitan thieves)".Сибирь и каторга [Siberia and Hard Labor] (in Russian). СПб.: S. V. Maksimov.
^Dubyagin, Yu. (1991).Толковый словарь уголовных жаргонов [Dictionary of Criminal Slang] (in Russian). Moscow: Inter-Omni.ISBN5-85945-002-8.
^Barkdoll, Robert (November 22, 1965). "Russian Terror Agency Described by Defector".Los Angeles Times. p. 16.
^Price, Anthony (1972).Colonel Butler's Wolf. Mysterious Press.ISBN9780445402249.
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