Agent-in-place (Noun)
Meaning
An operative serving as a penetration into an intelligence target.
Classification
Nouns denoting people.
Examples
- The company's financial officer was secretly an agent-in-place working for their competitor to uncover trade secrets.
- She posed as an administrative assistant but was actually an agent-in-place feeding sensitive information to the opposing nation.
- The rogue agent-in-place managed to gain top clearance and had been feeding classified intel to enemy forces for years.
- Following a lengthy investigation, a trusted colleague was discovered to be an agent-in-place employed by a rival corporation.
- Their organization had unknowingly employed the agent-in-place for over a decade, who was quietly stealing research and providing it to foreign interests.