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
One police officer, Evelyn Tardiff, has long served as a double agent within the mobster’s circle, and Armand has grown unsure of her loyalties, fearing that “he no longer knew whose side she was on.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2025
Framed as a confession by the child of a Frenchman and a Vietnamese woman, the narrator is a double agent with an unforgettable voice recalling Graham Greene and Vladimir Nabokov.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2025
Sozen, 39, played a double agent fighting Islamist militants in the hit show The Bureau.
From BBC ● Feb. 4, 2025
George Blake stepped forward, out of the gray zone of the double agent, and chose to make the communist East his home.
From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau
