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Trump calls Wiles the "ice maiden" after the Florida political operative masterminded his 2024 election win, and until recently the first ever female chief had maintained steely discipline at the White House.
From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2026
Winstone leads the cast as Alan "Razor" Sharp, an ex-SAS operative, with Cowbridge portraying a town in England.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026
That’s why it was so surprising to see longtime Republican operative Joe diGenova resign from his job as a top Trump consigliere — or, more formally, “special counselor to the attorney general” — on Thursday.
From Salon ● Sep. 15, 2026
Eric Bana plays Avner, a Mossad operative sent to hunt down the Palestinians whom Israel holds responsible for the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
At the outset, operative No. 10 asked Mathis, who’d been a juror on the inquest, to show him the crime scene.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
"Defectors with sensitive backgrounds -- such as former intelligence operatives, diplomats or those with access to state secrets -- are typically kept separately from other arrivals."
From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026
They asked their supervisors to approve a new investigation and contemplated using undercover operatives to gather more evidence.
From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026
Six trained and uniformed "security operatives" would patrol Braintree, Colchester and Chelmsford centres seven days a week, from 10:00 to 18:00, as part of a three-month trial, said Reform UK-led Essex County Council.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
Malkovich and Sam Rockwell play veteran CIA operatives who, after helping destabilize Salvador Allende’s government in 1973 Chile, head to Easter Island on a more personal assignment.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
The Agency was still smaller than its Russian counterpart, and its agents had to train hard to learn the techniques of spycraft—which Soviet operatives had been mastering for decades.
From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau
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