Wetwork
Template:Short description Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Hatnote list' not found. Wetwork (Template:Langx)[1], (colloquial: Template:Langx) is a euphemism for murder or assassination that alludes to spilling blood.[2] The expression and the similar wet job, wet affair, or wet operation are all calques of Russian terms for such activities and can be traced to criminal slang from at least the 19th century[3][4] and originally meant robbery that involved murder or the spilling of blood.
The operations are reputed to have been handled by the CIA and by the KGB's SpecBureau 13 (Spets Byuro 13), known as the "Department of Wet Affairs" (Script error: No such module "lang".), or "Department 13".[5][6][7][8]
See also
- Black operation
- I Heard You Paint Houses, the titular euphemism similarly refers to a hitman.
References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Becket, Henry S. A. (1986). The Dictionary of Espionage: Spookspeak into English. Stein & Day.
- ^ wet work. Definition on Merriam-Webster (accessed Feb 2024)
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.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.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link) - ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Dubyagin, Yu. (1991). Толковый словарь уголовных жаргонов [Dictionary of Criminal Slang] (in Russian). Moscow: Inter-Omni. ISBN 5-85945-002-8.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link) - ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Barkdoll, Robert (November 22, 1965). "Russian Terror Agency Described by Defector". Los Angeles Times. p. 16.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Price, Anthony (1972). Colonel Butler's Wolf. Mysterious Press. ISBN 9780445402249.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.CIA (1993) [1964], "Soviet Use of Assassination and Kidnapping: A 1964 view of KGB methods", Studies in Intelligence, 19 (3), archived from the original on March 27, 2010
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Transcript of James Angleton [CIA] interview with Peter Williams" (Interview). Interviewed by Williams, Peter. Thames Television. November 1977. Retrieved 2025-07-15.
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