Sentence examples for confidential agent from inspiring English sources

Stated that he was the personal, confidential agent of Harold McCormick of Chicago.

I'll also be taking Graham Greene's The Confidential Agent (Vintage £8.99).

The Confidential Agent (1939); The Power and the Glory (1940); The Quiet American (1955).

It was very much like the place I'd anticipated earlier in 'The Confidential Agent'.

Derby appointed a London art dealer (who has chosen to remain anonymous) as their confidential agent in New York.

An East German listing of Nazis published in 1965 listed him as "confidential agent of Nazi General Gehlen".

The Guardian discovered that BAE was paying secret sums of money to confidential agents all around the world through a global system of offshore anonymous companies.

One of BAE's former confidential agents, Count Alfons Mensdorff-Pouilly, was today charged by the Serious Fraud Office with bribery over arms deals.

In his court filings, Danos paints in rarely seen detail a picture of a company that regularly paid huge sums to confidential agents to make sales around the world, although he does not directly accuse them of bribery.

Into the den of this crew of potential cutthroats, Pinkerton dispatched his most trusted confidential agents, including Mrs. Kate Warne, a young widow who was the first female professional detective in America; she was hired by the wily Pinkerton, and it turned out to be one of the best management decisions he would ever make.

After listening to reports from his confidential agents, Tyler decided that the 'lawless assemblages' had dispersed and expressed his confidence in a "temper of conciliation as well as of energy and decision".