secret agent

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Channeling the fictional 1980s secret agent MacGyver, he unwound the paper clip and stuck it in his TV’s coaxial port to get a signal.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 8, 2025

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

In the 1960s, McCallum played a secret agent on hit spy drama The Man From U.N.C.L.E.

From BBC • Sep. 25, 2023

He would soon prove how much damage a single secret agent could inflict on an enemy superpower.

From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau