The phrase "agents were responsible" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing accountability or liability in a situation involving agents, such as in legal, business, or organizational contexts.
Example: "In the investigation, it was concluded that the agents were responsible for the breach of protocol."
Alternatives: "agents were accountable" or "agents held liable."
Iranian officials said they had evidence that American agents were responsible, which the United States denied.
Assuming that Israeli agents were responsible, Dubai may be the only place they could kill Mr. Mabhouh, said Robert Baer, a former C.I.A. operative in the Middle East.
Nor did the charge, made public in 1991, that Libyan agents were responsible for murdering 270 people in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, or the subsequent UN sanctions imposed to force the suspects to surrender.
At that time, Ms. Lindauer told an online newsletter in 2000, she met a businessman who told her that Syrian-based agents were responsible for the bombing of Pan American Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland.
Citing unnamed Egyptian officials, the same newspaper floated charges that Iranian intelligence agents were responsible for the kidnap and murder of Egypt's ambassador in Iraq in July 2005.A similar campaign has unfolded in Saudi Arabia, where increasingly internet chat sites, several of which are widely believed to be infiltrated by police agents, are rife with spurious tales of Shia perfidy.
Under the watchful eyes of the Stasi, whose file cabinets stretched for miles, case agents were responsible for keeping tabs on individuals and groups.
TEPAC agents are responsible for implementing the plan's response aspect – crucial not only to save lives, but also to limit cholera transmission and to prevent the current outbreak from becoming endemic.
The agents are responsible for screening sea containers for possible weapons of mass destruction, a United States Customs spokesman said.
India is dependent on oil imported from Iran and has not yet endorsed the Israeli view that Iranian agents are responsible for the blast.
