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SECRET AGENT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A person secretly employed in espionage for a government
Synonyms:
intelligence agent; intelligence officer; operative; secret agent
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("secret agent" is a kind of...):
agent (a representative who acts on behalf of other persons or organizations)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "secret agent"):
agent-in-place (an operative serving as a penetration into an intelligence target)
agent provocateur; provocateur (a secret agent who incites suspected persons to commit illegal acts)
bridge agent (an operative who acts as a courier or go-between from a case officer to a secret agent in a hostile area)
case officer (an operative who also serves as an official staffer of an intelligence service)
codetalker; windtalker (a secret agent who was one of the Navajos who devised and used a code based on their native language; the code was unbroken by the Japanese during World War II)
foot (a member of a surveillance team who works on foot or rides as a passenger)
NOC (an undercover agent who is given no official cover)
spy; undercover agent ((military) a secret agent hired by a state to obtain information about its enemies or by a business to obtain industrial secrets from competitors)
walk-in (an operative who initiates his own defection (usually to a hostile country) for political asylum)
