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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.
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.
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]
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.
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.
A sleeper agent is not in contact with anyone until activated. Triple agent: works for three intelligence services. [how?] Less common or lesser known forms of agent include: Access agent: provides access to other potential agents by providing offender profiling information that can help lead to recruitment into an intelligence service.
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 ...
The Stasi sent agents to the West as sleeper agents. For instance, sleeper agent Günter Guillaume became a senior aide to social democratic chancellor Willy Brandt, and reported about his politics and private life. [54] The Stasi operated at least one brothel. Agents were used against both men and women working in Western governments.