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The book’s title refers to the Soviet agent Oleg Lyalin, a relatively low-level but irrepressibly ambitious KGB operative who defected to Britain in 1971.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026

That’s why it was so surprising to see longtime Republican operative Joe diGenova resign from his job as a top Trump consigliere — or, more formally, “special counselor to the attorney general” — on Thursday.

From Salon ● Sep. 15, 2026

Phillips ultimately lost his job with Collins too, this time after crudely mocking a rival political operative whose wife had accused former NBC journalist Matt Lauer of rape.

From Slate ● Aug. 27, 2026

Some became incredible investments later, the operative word being “later.”

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 3, 2026

That was until he’d tried to sell the Jules Rimet Cup to an undercover LEP operative.

From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer

Nineteen Al-Qaeda operatives hijacked four planes on that nearly cloudless day in 2001.

From Barron's ● Sep. 7, 2026

Malkovich and Sam Rockwell play veteran CIA operatives who, after helping destabilize Salvador Allende’s government in 1973 Chile, head to Easter Island on a more personal assignment.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026

Several similar operatives had been detained so far this year, he said, including one person from Kazakhstan.

From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026

Using stolen identities, AI tools and U.S. accomplices, its operatives have cheated their way into remote jobs in an effort to earn money for Kim Jong Un’s regime.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

Saxe was one of a new generation of CIA operatives who pushed hard to get more aggressive in recruiting Soviet informers.

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