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n. - An operative serving as a penetration into an intelligence target.

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  • According to my SMOTU agent-in-place in the NYPL, Kirkus didn't wax enthusiastic over DRAGON'S EYE.
  • For the first time, CIA had an agent-in-place inside the ChiComm Politburo, and that was about as good as it got.
  • For this and several other reasons, Foley was entrusted with running the Agency's longest-lived, most productive agent-in-place, Colonel Mikhail Semyonovich Filitov,...
  • I thought at first that it looked like a screening for entrapment, but they wouldn't have mounted an operation the size of Slingshot, involving the USAF and NATO, just for...
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