21.   Hundreds of special forces are deployed in Afghanistan and working on clandestine operations.

22.   Investigators told Le Monde they think the paperwork was used to aid clandestine extremist operations in France and neighboring countries.

23.   Syria has repeatedly denied involvement in such clandestine operations.

24.   The U.S. government has not admitted to conducting clandestine operations in Mexico, but McCurry did not deny the allegations when asked Wednesday.

25.   Then on Wednesday, while watching CNN television news, clansmen discovered he had been captured in a clandestine operation.

26.   Under arrest is Juan Alberto Perote, former clandestine operations chief of the CESID intelligence service.

27.   Historians have long said the CIA mounted clandestine operations in Indonesia.

28.   However the report said such laws could be counterproductive by encouraging clandestine operations which were even more dangerous.

29.   According to press reports, during the impromptu meeting Lake pledged his support for CIA clandestine operations.

30.   Contreras slipped out of his homestead in what some observers called a clandestine operation designed to avoid detection by police who were keeping eye on him.