double agent

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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 • Mar. 30, 2026

Think of Mike Buckley as a kind of double agent.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 2, 2026

His KGB contact, who believes him to be a double agent, raises the stakes by asking him for information on Faith—though she has encouraged Gabriel to accept Soviet payments to dupe the Russians.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 12, 2025

"I really did feel a tremendous loyalty to MI6," the Soviet double agent said, but his over-ruling fealty was to "the other side".

From BBC • Jan. 14, 2025

In the end, Gordievsky made the lonely and wrenching decision of the double agent: to save his own life.

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