The article focuses on the ethical dimensions of intelligence operations and the moral considerations faced by individual intelligence officers. Intelligence services are defined as collecting and analyzing data about threats to a nation's security and interest and using clandestine resources to carry out a nation's foreign policy. The seven necessary conditions for a just war are discussed and applied to such intelligence operations as espionage and covert interference. Governmental restraints to prevent abuses in secret intelligence operations are also discussed, including written presidential findings to justify covert actions. Three categories of covert operations are discussed: necessary and moral; necessary but immoral; and unnecessary and immoral. The moral considerations facing the individual intelligence officer are also discussed in detail. Secret intelligence operations in a free and democratic society must be carried out in an ethical and moral manner and are necessary in a depraved and evil world. 41 footnotes.