Agent and Contact

Agent

Agent noun - Something used to achieve an end.

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Contact and agent are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Contact" instead a noun "Agent".

Nearby Words: agency, agential

Contact noun - An acquaintance who has influence especially in the business or political world.

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Agent and contact are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Agent" instead a noun "Contact".

Nearby Words: contacted, contactor, contacting

human	human agent	human contact
old	old agent	old contact
good	good agent	good contact
female	female agent	female contact
Other adjectives: full, actual, real, main, new, mysterious, last, previous.

So, instead of going with the typical Take Me to Your Leader tactic, they have chosen to, first, hire a human agent to prepare humanity for the contact.

Source: Literature / Agent To The Stars
When his contact is killed by an air raid, he assumes the man's identity, but then finds the contact was a Gestapo agent sent from Berlin to help organize the "Werwolf" underground.

Source: Dead Person Impersonation
In the pilot of The Invisible Man, Darien Fawkes goes to meet a government agent at a public meeting place, and is given a torn business card so he and his contact can identify each other.

Source: Two Halves Make a Plot

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