DOUBLE AGENT Definition & Meaning

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double agent

noun

a person who spies on a country while pretending to spy for it.
a spy in the service of two rival countries, companies, etc.

double agent

noun

a spy employed by two mutually antagonistic countries, companies, etc

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of double agent¹

First recorded in 1930–35

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Burgess was a British diplomat and Soviet double agent during the Second World War and the early Cold War period.

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At the time of his work as a double agent, his defection was hailed by then Foreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe as "a very substantial coup for our security forces".

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Sozen, 39, played a double agent fighting Islamist militants in the hit show The Bureau.

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He then contacted MI6 saying he had been paid by Iran after passing on false information and said he wanted to be a "double agent".

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He also claimed to have fed Lamar "false" information through a double agent.

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