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
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
Days later, the pair met for a third time where the double agent handed over a six-page typewritten account of covert work for the Soviet Union and how he had come to be recruited.
From BBC • Jan. 14, 2025
He was now in the rare position of being a double agent.
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
