Usage of "double agent"

Russian

двойной агент

Portuguese

agente duplo

Spanish

agente doble

Catalan

agent doble

Profession.

Related terms

profession

двойной агент

A person who is active in an Organisation or similar who is actively and secretly sharing some or all of its internal and confidential informations with another organisation or group of people most often targetting quite opposite goals.

traitor

Usage of double agent in English

He was the highest-ranking official double agent they had in France. 
 Crossings 

I don't know, maybe the CIA's source was a double agent. 
 Man in the Middle 

The double agent can be used to confuse the enemy or manipulate it. 
 Reuters 

Fortunately he still has no idea who the double agent is.' 
 Bedlam 

Was some kind of double agent, or triple agent- Idon'tknow. 
 Skin Game 

That was what happened when one tried being a double agent. 
 Discord's apple 

I think Viktor's running him as a double agent or something. 
 The Kingmaker 

They sent me back to the Web as a double agent. 
 The Hyperion Cantos 

I was acting as a double agent, Alma, mining our brother for information. 
 Library of Souls 

Playing double agent is starting to take it's toll on Zitha. 
 The South African 

The AP story said nothing about an insider, an infiltrator or a double agent. 
 Reuters 

Paula Malcomson previously was cast as a surgeon who works as a double agent. 
 Reuters 

So there it is -I became what they call a double agent, Sarah. 
 The Human Factor 

Would that be something like being a double agent, then? 
 The Diamond Age 

He also found the double agent and the white man. 
 The bourne identity 

Juan Pujol García, Agent Garbo, the most celebrated double agent of the Second World War. 
 Operation mincemeat: how a dead man and a bizarre plan fooled th... 