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dead-drop en · VERB
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(alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of dead drop.
Last week, he 'dead-dropped' some pictures of the last dozen or so relatively new arrivals to Moscow and their assigned cars.
2011, Robert W. Swanson, The Russian Shoot, page 174:The agent had to dead-drop the locker key to the PGU by some simple means, such as by taping it underneath a predesignated park bench, where it could be retrieved unobtrusively, usually by an officer under illegal cover.
2007, Ion Mihai Pacepa, Programmed to Kill:Upon arriving in Setauket, Roe would dead-drop the information in a box in the middle of a field owned by Woodhull. Woodhull took the secrets to Brewster, who delivered them to Major Tallmadge.
2020, H. Keith Melton, Robert Wallace, Spy Sites of New York City, page 11:
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