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In espionage, a sleeper agent is one who has infiltrated the target country and has "gone to sleep", sometimes for many years. The agent makes no attempt to communicate with the sponsor or any existing agents or to obtain information beyond what is in public, and becomes active only upon receiving a pre-arranged signal or message from the sponsor or a fellow agent.
In espionage jargon, a mole (also called a "penetration agent", [1] "deep cover agent", "illegal" or "sleeper agent") is a long-term spy (espionage agent) who is recruited before having access to secret intelligence, subsequently managing to get into the target organization. [2]
The Illegals Program (so named by the United States Department of Justice) was a network of Russian sleeper agents under unofficial cover.An investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) culminated in the arrest of ten agents on June 27, 2010, and a prisoner exchange between Russia and the United States on July 9, 2010.
If former Russian spy Sergei Skripal really was poisoned by Putin's agents, it might have been done by a "sleeper" agent activated for precisely that task.
MOSCOW (Reuters) -A family of Russian sleeper agents flown to Moscow in the biggest East-West prisoner swap since the Cold War were so deep under cover that their children found out they were ...
A former sleeper agent for Hezbollah faced trial Monday in one of the many New York City buildings he’s accused of plotting to bomb. Alexei Saab, 45, allegedly moved to the U.S. in 2000 from ...
Jack Philip Barsky (born Albrecht Dittrich, 18 May 1949) is a German-American author, IT specialist and former sleeper agent of the KGB who spied on the United States from 1978 to 1988. Exposed after the Cold War , Barsky became a resource for U.S. counterintelligence agencies and was allowed to remain in the United States.
A clandestine cell system is a method for organizing a group of people, such as resistance fighters, spies, mercenaries, organized crime members, or terrorists, to make it harder for police, military or other hostile groups to catch them.