double agent
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Think of Mike Buckley as a kind of double agent.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 2, 2026
And in 2018, the UK said Russian double agent Sergei Skripal was poisoned with a Novichok nerve agent in the British cathedral city of Salisbury.
From Barron's • Jan. 15, 2026
One police officer, Evelyn Tardiff, has long served as a double agent within the mobster’s circle, and Armand has grown unsure of her loyalties, fearing that “he no longer knew whose side she was on.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 14, 2025
He also claimed to have fed Lamar "false" information through a double agent.
From BBC • Jan. 15, 2025
The former double agent now morphed into the model prisoner, charming the Scrubs' guards and administrators and making friends among its inmates.
From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau
