undercover agent

DEFINITIONS OF: undercover agent

Examples:: Margarete Gertrud Zelle
Dutch dancer who was executed by the French as a German spy in World War I (1876-1917)

Types:: show 6 types...; hide 6 types...; counterspy, mole
a spy who works against enemy espionage; double agent
a spy who works for two mutually antagonistic countries; espionage agent
someone employed to spy on another country or business competitor; foreign agent
a spy for a foreign country; infiltrator
someone who takes up a position surreptitiously for the purpose of espionage; sleeper
a spy or saboteur or terrorist planted in an enemy country who lives there as a law-abiding citizen until activated by a prearranged signal

Type of:: intelligence agent, intelligence officer, operative, secret agent
a person secretly employed in espionage for a government

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