double agent
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In 2018, the UK said Russian double agent Sergei Skripal was poisoned with a Novichok nerve agent in the British cathedral city of Salisbury.
From Barron's ● Mar. 30, 2026
Think of Mike Buckley as a kind of double agent.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 2, 2026
His KGB contact, who believes him to be a double agent, raises the stakes by asking him for information on Faith—though she has encouraged Gabriel to accept Soviet payments to dupe the Russians.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2025
Burgess was a British diplomat and Soviet double agent during the Second World War and the early Cold War period.
From BBC ● Apr. 1, 2025
Franklin and Deane sometimes sent Bancroft on missions to London, not knowing that this gave the double agent a chance to report in person to the head of the British Secret Service.
From "George Washington, Spymaster" by Thomas B. Allen
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