cloak-and-dagger man
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At the same time, the President announced the appointment of Richard McGarrah Helms, 52, an experienced CIA cloak-and-dagger man, as Raborn's top deputy.
From Time Magazine Archive
His narrative runs from the early 1930s through the end of World War II, covering journalistic sojourns abroad and in Fleet Street and wartime experiences as a cloak-and-dagger man in Africa and Europe.
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