Sentence examples for by a Soviet agent from inspiring English sources

BBC Audio £15.99, 3hrs The Circus has been infiltrated at the highest level by a Soviet agent.

Only years later, when Pericles, working as a diplomat in Brussels, is recruited by a Soviet agent, does the prophecy come true.

One remarkable document, the text of a report by a Soviet agent in Spain sent to none other than Kliment Voroshilov, Stalin's army chief, outlines a full strategy for going "decisively and consciously to battle" against the Republican government of Francisco Largo Caballero, the Socialist premier who, in the view of Moscow's agents, "is making desperate efforts to isolate the Communists".

In "Night Soldiers," Khristo Stoianev, on the run from local fascists, is recruited by a Soviet agent and finds himself trapped in the paranoid and murderous N.K.V.D. at the time of the purges — he is pushed, like tumbleweed in a storm, from Moscow to the Spanish Civil War, then to the shady émigré community of Paris, French prison, the French resistance and eventually New York.

He was assassinated by a Soviet agent in 1921.

His plans to leave the country, along with the fact that he was killed by a Soviet agent, also indicate political reasons for his death.

In subsequent deliveries, mediated by Sax or a Soviet agent, Hall handed over technical details that contributed directly to the Soviet Union's first atomic bomb, which was tested in 1949.

In a turn of events worthy of one of Greene's novels, the official was a Viennese emigre called Peter Smolka, who had earlier been recruited as a Soviet agent by Kim Philby.

By Anthony Lane Tom Hanks is a lawyer who defends a Soviet agent in Steven Spielberg's film, written by Matt Charman and the Coen Bros.

Prompted by CIA fears that Wilson was a Soviet agent - put in place after the KGB had, the spooks believed, poisoned Hugh Gaitskell, the previous Labour leader - these MI5 men burgled the homes of the prime minister's aides, bugged their phones and spread black, anti-Wilson propaganda throughout the media.

Shortly after, he was introduced by James Klugmann, a communist from Cambridge, to a Soviet agent who invited him to aid the antifascist movement.