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

Gordievsky, a colonel in Russia's KGB, spent many years as a double agent, passing vital intelligence to both Britain's MI6 and MI5.

From BBC • Mar. 21, 2025

And that's because the double agent Cherkashin was running inside the highest ranks of the CIA was far more valuable to him than punishing a single renegade KGB colonel.

From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau