intelligencer

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The former minister told Aluko she had already spoken about his "general behaviour, acquisition of assets, etc, asking you to be careful because intelligencer will start following you".

From BBC • Feb. 24, 2026

Marlowe, we think, worked as a secret agent or "intelligencer" in the proto-secret service that Francis Walsingham set up for Elizabeth I, and in all likelihood conducted espionage abroad.

From The Guardian • Oct. 15, 2010

Shakespeare speaks of Richard as "hell's black intelligencer," "that bottled spider, this poisonous bunch-back'd toad."

From Time Magazine Archive

Why, a very quaint invisible devil in flesh, An intelligencer.

From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series by Brown, Horatio Robert Forbes

Holy father,   I come not to you as an intelligencer,   But as a penitent sinner: what I utter   Is in confession merely; which, you know,   Must never be reveal'd.

From The White Devil by Webster, John