Agent and Mole

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Agent noun - A person who tries secretly to obtain information for one country in the territory of another usually unfriendly country.

Usage example: an agent feeding information about enemy troop movements

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Mole is a synonym for agent in spy topic. In some cases you can use "Mole" instead a noun "Agent". informal substitute

Nearby Words: agency, agential

Mole noun - A person who tries secretly to obtain information for one country in the territory of another usually unfriendly country.

Usage example: for years we have had a mole in the enemy's national intelligence agency

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Agent is a synonym for mole in spy topic. You can use "Agent" instead a noun "Mole".

Nearby Word: molar

perfect	perfect agent	perfect mole
single	single agent	single mole
deep	deep agent	deep mole
effective	effective agent	effective mole
Other adjectives: actual, real, evil, main, new, former, titular, covert, soviet, paranoid, brainwashed.

The mole hunt that eventually nabbed notorious FBI spy Robert Hanssen was focused for some time on the wrong person, a CIA agent who turned out to be innocent.

Source: Red Herring Mole
FBI agent Robert Hanssen, who sent enormous amounts of intelligence to the Soviet Union and later Russian Federation during a career as a spy that lasted over twenty years, was at one time head of a task force charged with ferreting out the suspected mole in the FBI—himself.

Source: Detective Mole
The Assets is the true story of Aldrich Ames, a CIA agent who was a mole for the KGB for years.

Source: The Mole / Live-Action TV

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