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Definition of Double agent
1. Noun. A spy who works for two mutually antagonistic countries.
Definition of Double agent
1. Noun. (espionage) A spy who pretends to work for one side, when they are truthfully working for the other/ passing information to the other. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Double Agent
Literary usage of Double agent
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Security Awareness in the 1980s: Featured Articles From Security Awareness (1992)
"Apprehended by the FBI in 1977, he agreed to operate as a double agent until the
operation ... New York Times, 4 Mar 1980, "double agent Revealed by FBI. ..."
2. Okhrana: The Paris Operations of the Russian Imperial Police by Ben B. Fischer (1999)
"He was in fact a double agent who had remained loyal to Russia. With help from
the Okhrana, Dolin organized "successful" sabotage operations inside Russian ..."
3. Of Moles and Molehunters: A Review of Counterintelligence Literature, 1977-92 by DIANE Publishing Company (1995)
"Was he genuine, or was he a Soviet double agent providing false information ...
The conclusion that he was not a double agent was based on the judgment the ..."
4. The Secret War: The Office of Strategic Services in World War II edited by George C. Chalou (1995)
"When the Army picked up an agent, an X-2 officer was called in to assess the
agent's potential as a double agent. If the results of the review were ..."
5. The Mars Records Book 2: Clearing Sessions with A Biofeedback Meter Where a by Stephanie Relfe (2002)
"My understanding is that Scopolamine was originally used on “double agents” so
that if tie double agent was subjected to torture, ..."
6. A Treatise on the Law of Agency: Including Special Classes of Agents by William Lawrence Clark, Henry Heckerman Skyles (1905)
""Of course to relieve such double agent from suspicion that inconsistent duties
have been assumed, which prima- facie will be presumed, it is necessary that ..."