double agent


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a spy who works for two mutually antagonistic countries

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Indeed, the theory of Marwan as a double agent seems to have more merit.
He had worked as a double agent for the UK intelligence agency MI6 and was jailed in Russia in 2006 for spying for Britain.
He spent 13 years as a double agent and at the height of the Cold War supplied MI5 and MI6 with crucial information about Russian spies' penetration of secret British codes.
A huge police inquiry was launched after former double agent Sergei Skripal, 66, and his daughter Yulia, 33, were found slumped on a bench in Salisbury, Wiltshire, on March 4.
According to Lebanese reports, the double agent, identified only by the initials M.
MARVEL'S AGENTS OF SHIELD C4 8pm LAST ONE It's time for the ultimate battle between the superheroes and double agent Garrett (Bill Paxton).
Once in Lisbon, Pujol renewed his offer to the British, this time as a double agent, and was again rejected.
The court rejected the plea of Punjab government on killing of Masood Janjua being double agent of US and Al-Qaeda and disposing of the case remarking if ISI has each and every information about Masood Janjua and Faisal Faraz then why it does not know where is the dead body of Masood Janjua.
Kerr's debut literary effort, "Life Of A Double Agent" is an extraordinarily well crafted and complex novel that takes the reader into a fully believable world of international intrigue and global conspiracy.
DESCRIBED as a 'shifty-looking, short, bony-faced Welshman' in his security file, double agent Arthur Owens ended up playing a major role in Britain's victory in World War Two.
Full training will be given in how to become a double agent!
The first installment, Agent Zigzag (see below), looks at dodgy double agent Eddie Chapman, while the second, Operation Mincemeat ([EXCELLENT] SELECTION Sept/Oct 2010), reveals the Brits' bold plot to hoodwink the Nazis by planting a dead body with forged documents off the coast of Spain.
Turned in by his wife, he became a double agent, although within a few years he found himself interned having been suspected of becoming a triple agent.