double agent
Example Sentences
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Think of Mike Buckley as a kind of double agent.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 2, 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
At the time of his work as a double agent, his defection was hailed by then Foreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe as "a very substantial coup for our security forces".
From BBC • Mar. 21, 2025
Oleg Gordievsky's career as a double agent had landed him right in the middle of one of the most dangerous standoffs of the Cold War—and into scalding-hot water with the KGB.
From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
