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

During three meetings with the undercover FBI agent, Rocha began to divulge details about his time working as a secret agent for the Cuban government, the charging document described.

From BBC • Feb. 29, 2024

But this year, he’s back in front of the camera in the new Prime Video series “Mr. & Mrs. Smith,” starring alongside Maya Erskine as a secret agent.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 1, 2024

Mary Surratt was a forty-two-year-old Maryland widow and mother of John Harrison Surratt, a Confederate secret agent and friend of Booth’s.

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