An agent who works secretly.
1 Was Gripp wearing leather, as befits a caravan guard, or chain, as befits a covert agent ? '
2 In doing so it steered close to illegality, since it is a crime knowingly to disclose that a person is a covert agent .
3 They learnt the identities of most of the covert agents there.
4 I get the impression that we maintain covert agents in those places and that they do the same with us.
5 The U.S. will stick to drones and cash and covert agents and mercenaries -just like it's doing in Mexico, already.
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