According to my SMOTU agent-in-place in the NYPL, Kirkus didn't wax enthusiastic over DRAGON'S EYE.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rainy days and Mondays...] Reference

For the first time, CIA had an agent-in-place inside the ChiComm Politburo, and that was about as good as it got.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bear and the Dragon]

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, code name C ARDINAL.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cardinal of the Kremlin]

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 three aerial pictures and a screening job: an agent-in-place could do that with his eyes shut.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sinkiang Executive]

This was appropriate cover in a town where there were drilling-bits stacked all over the station but of course it might not be cover alone: we've got an agent-in-place in Stockholm with an international reputation as an ornithologist and a man in Cadiz who charges five hundred pesetas an hour for teaching musical voice.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sinkiang Executive]

We don't have an agent-in-place quite yet, "he reminded his wife.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bear and the Dragon]

Heard from my agent-in-place within the NYPL.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sunny day, chasing the clouds away] Reference