The phrase "as a covert agent" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to someone who is working secretly or undercover, often in the context of espionage or intelligence work.
Example: "He operated in the shadows, always careful to maintain his cover as a covert agent."
Alternatives: "in an undercover role" or "as an undercover operative."
Vladimir Kryuchkov, who was the head of the K.G.B. under Gorbachev and directed the August , 1991 coup, was constantly trying to convince Gorbachev that his most liberal adviser, Alexander Yakovlev, was acting as a covert "agent of imperialist intelligence agencies".
That law, all but unused in the intervening decades, is today the basis for a grand jury investigation into the disclosure last year of the identity of Valerie Plame as a covert agent for the Central Intelligence Agency.
"But the idea that a boy at the age of 14 was selected as a covert agent by a foreign government to destabilize India — and the assumption the boy will assume leadership of the Tibetan movement and eventually work against India — is worthy of a cheap spy novel".
Set in a fictitious Middle Eastern city the game sees you play as a covert agent parachuted in from a secretive organisation to secure intel from a group of survivors left in a quarantined city (quarantined due to a zombie outbreak obviously).
A California man pleaded not guilty to acting as a covert agent of the government of Iran and was ordered detained Tuesday by a U.S. judge on charges of secretly monitoring a Jewish center in Chicago and American members of an exiled Iranian opposition group.
And why, in all the times I've heard the story of the outing of Valerie Prame as a covert agent, has no one ever said that aside from anything else, what kind of idiot rebuttal to Joe Wilson's report is it to say, well his wife recommended him???
Mr. Libby is accused of disclosing, was not a covert agent as defined in the federal law that prompted the inquiry by the special prosecutor, Patrick J. Fitzgerald.
Moreover, if Rove did not know whether or not Plame was a covert agent, as he claims, that is all the more reason he should not have revealed her to Matt Cooper and possibly others.
Because it fits into categories that are treated by the law as exceptions, the most important of which is disclosure of a covert agent's identity.
Did they realise at the time that she was a covert agent, rather than an ordinary one?
