double agent
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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
Framed as a confession by the child of a Frenchman and a Vietnamese woman, the narrator is a double agent with an unforgettable voice recalling Graham Greene and Vladimir Nabokov.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2025
He also claimed to have fed Lamar "false" information through a double agent.
From BBC • Jan. 15, 2025
One such double agent was Elijah Hunter, a captain in the American Army.
From "George Washington, Spymaster" by Thomas B. Allen
