double agent
Example Sentences
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Holt worked with Libyan intelligence assets in the 1980s and was the handler of double agent Abdul Majid Giaka, whose information became central to the investigation into the Lockerbie bombing.
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026
The ex-wife of an MI5 agent has secured a "significant" settlement against the state in the first in a series of civil cases related to the double agent, Freddie Scappaticci.
From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026
And 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 ● Jan. 15, 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
I warned Intelligence he wasn’t clever enough to be a double agent.
From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein
