Definitions
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- noun an operative serving as a penetration into an intelligence target
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Examples
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You deny any complicity in running, or servicing, any Russian agent-in-place for the Russian service?
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According to my SMOTU agent-in-place in the NYPL, Kirkus didn't wax enthusiastic over DRAGON'S EYE.
Rainy days and Mondays... jhetley 2005
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For bureaucratic reasons lost in the mists of time, CARDINAL had not been handled as a regular agent-in-place, and that had saved him from Aldrich Ames and his treacherous betrayal of a dozen Soviet citizens who'd worked for America.
The Bear and the Dragon Clancy, Tom, 1947- 2000
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For the first time, CIA had an agent-in-place inside the ChiComm Politburo, and that was about as good as it got.
The Bear and the Dragon Clancy, Tom, 1947- 2000
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For this and several other reasons, Foley was entrusted with running the Agency's longest-lived, most productive agent-in-place, Colonel Mikhail Semyonovich Filitov, code name C ARDINAL.
The Cardinal of the Kremlin Clancy, Tom, 1947- 1988
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I thought at first that it looked like a screening for entrapment, but they wouldn't have mounted an operation the size of Slingshot, involving the USAF and NATO, just for three aerial pictures and a screening job: an agent-in-place could do that with his eyes shut.
The Sinkiang Executive Hall, Adam 1978
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This was appropriate cover in a town where there were drilling-bits stacked all over the station but of course it might not be cover alone: we've got an agent-in-place in Stockholm with an international reputation as an ornithologist and a man in Cadiz who charges five hundred pesetas an hour for teaching musical voice.
The Sinkiang Executive Hall, Adam 1978
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Amiri was believed to be an agent-in-place for the CIA, who then decided he wanted out of Iran.
NPR Topics: News 2011
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The intelligence chief was actually an Israeli agent-in-place.
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The intelligence chief was actually an Israeli agent-in-place.
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