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During the many 20th-century spy scandals, much information became publicly known about national spy agencies and dozens of real-life secret agents. These sensational stories piqued public interest in a profession largely off-limits to human interest news reporting , a natural consequence of the secrecy inherent in their work.
Carl Hamilton, Swedish secret agent from the Books of Jan Guillou; Daniel Marchant, MI6 agent in Dead Spy Running and Games Traitors Play by Jon Stock; David Shirazi in Joel C. Rosenberg's The Twelfth Imam; Dominika Egorova, an SVR agent and the main protagonist of the Red Sparrow trilogy by Jason Matthews; Drongo in Chingiz Abdullayev's books
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]
A key figure was Sidney Reilly, a Russian-born adventurer and secret agent employed by Scotland Yard and the Secret Intelligence Service. He set the standard for modern espionage, turning it from a gentleman's amateurish game to a ruthless and professional methodology for the achievement of military and political ends.
In intelligence organizations, agent handling is the management of so-called agents (called secret agents or spies in common parlance), principal agents, and agent networks (called "assets") by intelligence officers typically known as case officers.
"The crash approach, or 'love at first sight' in GRU jargon, has a number of irrefutable advantages. Contact with the future agent takes place only once, instead of at meetings over many months, as is the case with the gradual approach. After the first contact the newly recruited agent will himself take action on his own security.
Mission: Impossible (1996). In Prague, Czech Republic, a group of IMF agents, an independent espionage agency employed by the U.S. government, is tasked with preventing rogue operative Alexander ...
Brazilian Intelligence Agency (ABIN); Federal Police Department (DPF) (counterintelligence agency); Gabinete de Segurança Institucional (Institutional Security Bureau) (GSI) Responds directly to the president's office and the armed forces.