Talk:Wetwork

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I found the following reference that may be used for sources: at http://www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_board/19/messages/445.html

WET WORK An operation involving the shedding of blood. KGB term. [Cf. _Mokryye Dela_, the KGB department of wet work --masakim's note] From _The Dictionary of Espionage: Spookspeak into English_ (1986) by Henry S.A. Becket.

wetwork noun An espionage assignment that calls for murder. [From _Wetwork_, a novel by Christopher Buckley] From _Trash Cash, Fizzbos, and Flatliners: A Dictionary of Today's Words_ (1993) by Sid Lerner et al.