Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. (context espionage English) A spy who pretends to work for one side, when they are truthfully working for the other/ passing information to the other.
WordNet
n. a spy who works for two mutually antagonistic countries
Wikipedia
A split album featuring performances by bands The K.G.B. and Alien Spy that was produced in 1997. This album includes 9 songs by Alien Spy and 10 songs by The K.G.B. and has a large ska influence.
Double Agent was a made for TV film from Walt Disney Television directed by Michael Vejar. It starred Michael McKean, Susan Walden, Christopher Burton, Judith Jones, and Lloyd Bochner. Additional cast included Del Zamora, John Putch, Alexa Hamilton, Jane A. Johnston, Lois January, Saveli Kramarov, Allan Kolman, and Big John Studd. Double Agent was first telecast March 29, 1987, on The Disney Sunday Movie series.
A double agent is a spy for one party who poses as a spy for the other.
Double agent may also refer to:
- "Double Agent" (Joe 90)
- Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Double Agent
- Double Agent, an album by K.G.B.
- Double Agent, a novel by Gene Stackleborg, basis of movie The Man Outside (1967 film)
- Double Agent (1987 film), a television film
- Double Agent (2003 film), a South Korean film
- Yuri Nosenko: Double Agent a 1986 TV movie about Yuri Nosenko
See also:
- Triple Agent (film)
Double Agent is a 2003 South Korean espionage/ thriller film directed by Kim Hyeon-jeong about a North Korean intelligence officer who defects to South Korea.
Usage examples of "double agent".
I wonder if he could have been a double agent or the supreme devil of all intelligence services, a triple agent?
Flipping a senior Saudi intelligence operative working at the Saudi embassy in Washington to work as a double agent for the CIA.
You'd only just met me for the first time, but you knew from Kesselring's military intelligence chief, through your pal Admiral Canaris, that I was their top double agent.
It was even rumored he had killed his own wife, because he discovered she was a double agent and was about to expose a highly placed mole.
The frame, the predicted consequences which perfectly matched the reality, the double agent who was Moscow's man.
With the demise of socialism in Europe, their sources within various government institutions had been rolled up, turned double agent, or simply stopped delivering, having lost their faith in a socialist future.
He had to appear to be a double agent and yet he had to force the Soviets to act.
I couldn't signal Egerton that the untrained novice he'd sent me to look after was a double agent for the K.