spy
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A Central Intelligence Agency spokesperson declined to say whether the spy service was behind the killing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
He was filled with ambition to see more of the country, write a spy thriller and literally climb more hills.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
Ratcliffe met Russian intelligence officials on Tuesday - notably his opposite number in Russia's overseas spy agency, Sergei Naryshkin - after arriving unannounced on a US military plane, the Kremlin confirmed.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
Australia's spy chief Mike Burgess singled out Russia last year as an "aggressive espionage threat" to the country.
From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026
This was a rule the boy broke every evening just after sunset when he snuck back to spy on his new friend.
From "City Spies" by James Ponti
The Emmy-nominated, darkly comic thriller about a unit of disgraced British spies — starring Gary Oldman, Jack Lowden and Kristen Scott Thomas — remains sharp and propulsive, one of the best series on TV.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026
The Telegraph suggests Burnham's visit has also seen him receive a "gold mine" of secret battlefield intelligence to help "protect the UK from Russian spies and saboteurs".
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
The club had previously brought together the core of the Bloomsbury Group and, shortly before Hobsbawm’s time, the Soviet spies known as the Cambridge Five.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
One of North Korea's best-known spies was Jeong Su-il, who entered South Korea in 1984 posing as Muhammed Kansu, a Filipino-Lebanese academic.
From Barron's ● Jul. 10, 2026
‘I’m Willem,’ I say to them after Hannie’s given them the instructions she gave me, and they fall into step as we carry on weaving through the city like spies.
From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler
My colleague Joe Barrett reported on a jury-duty scam where attackers spied on the victim’s texts, web searches and location.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026
Courtney Forrest, a lawyer for Bisignano, said in a statement that he never spied on co-workers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
The man who runs the IRS spied on colleagues while working at JPMorgan.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 21, 2026
Then, somehow, through the sea of jerseys, Cormac's 14-year-old son spied somebody he recognised.
From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026
Ivy spied Emily Dickinson with her hair parted down the middle and pulled into a tight bun.
From "Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World" by Ashley Herring Blake
Berlin expelled a Russian diplomat in January after arresting a woman suspected of spying for Moscow.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
A crowd gathered outside Flock’s conference, in the shadow of Atlanta’s Mercedes-Benz Stadium, carrying signs and chanting “Block Flock!” and “Stop spying on us!”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
It marks the eighth charging of an individual with crimes related to spying and foreign interference in Australia.
From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026
Billionaires like New York Knicks owner James L. Dolan reportedly use spying tech to harass people who criticize them.
From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2026
While spying on the Americans, I had determined that if one of those boards could be cut in two, the whole machine might collapse.
From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman
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