WordNet
n. a spy for a foreign country
Wikipedia
' Foreign Agent ' is a 1942 American spy film directed by William Beaudine. It stars John Shelton, Gale Storm, and Ivan Lebedeff. A young woman in Hollywood foils the attempts of Axis spies to steal an invention.
Foreign agent may refer to:
- Foreign agent, a person who carries out the interests of a foreign country while located in another host country, other than in a diplomatic capacity
- Foreign sales agent, a person or entity acting as a foreign representative for a domestic company
- One of entities comprising a Mobile IP implementation that stores information about mobile nodes visiting its network
- In United States law, an entity registered under the Foreign Agents Registration Act
Usage examples of "foreign agent".
It is easier for an Arab in a flowing burnoose to walk unnoticed through Berlin than for a foreign agent to pass through Russia.
As far as Budapest, I was concerned only with finding out whether you really were a foreign agent and the man we were looking for or whether I should throw you out at a street corner and tell you to lose yourself.
That morning the chief constable of Suffolk was told from London of the crisis that had been visited on him in the form of a suspected foreign agent, believed to be armed and perhaps with a bomb, who was holed up in Cherryhayes Close, Ipswich.
If this bizarre foreign agent was right, the information was priceless.
Someone he might be able to describe to the photo division at DI6--- a military person in civvies, a government official, a foreign agent.
Ostrakova's death, coupled with the dreadful fate of Alexandra, had produced a grave crisis in the life of Moscow's heroic foreign agent.
Who would believe that Bernard Samson would be married to a foreign agent and not realize it?
Someone he might be able to describe to the photo division at D16-a military person in civvies, a government official, a foreign agent.
You should have reported the contact by a foreign agent to me as soon as Possible.
There was only one way he would be able to find out which foreign agent or British spook had spent a dreary night on station outside his house and now suffered predawn demoralization that required the com.
There was only one way he would be able to find out which foreign agent or British spook had spent a dreary night on station outside his house and now suffered predawn demoralization that required the comfort of a car's heater.
And so we sat there in the cramped, cluttered room in the Laotian jungle, a foreign agent and a former chief of intelligence, while on the console the human tear made a dark patch that had already begun drying.
Lady Venezia Morrelline continues to oppose this, and we have been unable to convince her that we cannot be held responsible for the acts of sabotage by a foreign agent.