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
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
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
One such double agent was Elijah Hunter, a captain in the American Army.
From "George Washington, Spymaster" by Thomas B. Allen
