secret agent

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Over the next few decades, the secret agent opted for the security of running atop moving trains and hanging off the side of helicopters.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 8, 2026

Then in 1990 he got attention for his turn as the hard-nosed secret agent handling Anne Parillaud's female assassin Nikita, in Besson's hit film of the same name.

From Barron's • Oct. 31, 2025

A screenwriter hasn’t yet been named and no announcement has been made as to who will take over playing the famed British secret agent.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 25, 2025

Rocha was arrested in December on charges he worked as a secret agent of Cuba stretching back to the 1970s.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 29, 2024

Jones was a valuable and mysterious secret agent operating along the watery borders between Union and Confederate territory.

From "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson