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a person who tries secretly to obtain information for one country in the territory of another usually unfriendly country as the nation's top intelligencer, the director of the CIA should have been more skeptical of the information he was being fed

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Noun
  • Now, as Food reporter Cindy Carcamo reported this week, the union jobs at the Original Pantry Cafe are under threat.
    Laurie Ochoa, Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2025
  • Melvin appeared earnestly surprised when reporters took out their phones to post the news to social media.
    Andrew Baggarly, The Athletic, 22 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The titular protagonist is a former military spy turned maverick detective and, importantly, bookshop owner.
    Jamie Lang, Variety, 25 Feb. 2025
  • First came Witness by the American journalist Whittaker Chambers, a former communist and Soviet spy who eventually broke with the party and became a political conservative.
    Michael Kimmage, Foreign Affairs, 25 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • More about Jonathan Swan Maggie Haberman is a White House correspondent, reporting on the second, nonconsecutive term of Donald J. Trump.
    Eric Lipton, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2025
  • They are named for George Polk, a CBS News correspondent who was murdered in 1948 while covering the civil war in Greece.
    The New Yorker, The New Yorker, 17 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The show follows a Secret Service agent caught in a web of conspiracy after the U.S. president is assassinated, with no suspect in sight.
    Brittney Melton, NPR, 28 Feb. 2025
  • Caro Quintero was released when a court overturned his 40-year sentence for the 1985 kidnapping and killing of DEA agent Camarena.
    Greg Wehner, Fox News, 28 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • In Nicole Cuffy’s new novel, journalist Faruq Zaidi embeds himself inside a California cult following the death of his devout Muslim father.
    Shannon Carlin, TIME, 1 Mar. 2025
  • Source: The National Weather Service This article was generated by the Kansas City Star Bot, software that analyzes structured information, such as data, and applies it to articles based on templates created by journalists in the newsroom.
    KANSAS CITY STAR WEATHER BOT, Kansas City Star, 1 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • After being asked by the FBI employee, Pang also agreed to provide two US military uniforms for operatives to wear inside the base during the attack, and a cell phone that could be used as a test for a detonator, court documents say.
    Dalia Faheid, CNN, 28 Feb. 2025
  • So the big reveal on the Epstein Files is that SOME of them were given to a group of right-wing social media operatives?
    Dan Perry, Newsweek, 28 Feb. 2025
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“Intelligencer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/intelligencer. Accessed 5 Mar. 2025.

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