Sentence examples for had no agents from inspiring English sources
Intelligence Stretched Thin The C.I.A. Counterterrorism Center, established in 1986 and staffed with C.I.A. and F.B.I. analysts, had no agents of its own in the field.
But Clarridge had no agents in the field to command, and he was constantly undermined by bureaucratic timidity and turf battles.
They had no agents in Iraq since 1998, and even before then relied heavily on information supplied by UN weapons inspectors (some of whom were moonlighting as spies).
When a new agency station chief arrived in East Berlin in 1988 to begin his assignment, says Mr. Bearden, "the C.I.A. had no agents inside the internal security apparatus" of its foreign intelligence arm.
The criticism came to a head in a hearing a year ago, when Representative Dennis J. Kucinich, an Ohio Democrat, induced the Pentagon's acting inspector general, Thomas Gimble, to concede that he had no agents deployed in Iraq, more than two years after the invasion.
The C.I.A.'s vital South Group, made up of eight stations in central Asia — all threatened by fundamentalist organizations, especially in Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, with links to the Taliban and bin Laden — had no agents by the mid-nineteen-nineties, Baer said.
Ms. Manheim said she had no agent.
By this time Mr. Maguire, who had no agent himself, was broke.
No, when I first read the script I had no agent at the time.
In fact, a number of F.S.G. authors — including McPhee, Singer, and, later, Philip Roth — had no agent.
