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

An email address associated with him includes the 007 sobriquet of the world's most famous secret agent.

From BBC • Mar. 7, 2025

Rocha was arrested in December on charges he worked as a secret agent of Cuba stretching back to the 1970s.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 29, 2024

They do not know that in reality I am a secret agent named Wainscotting.

From "Invisible Inkling" by Emily Jenkins