Sentence examples for important spy from inspiring English sources

"He was a very important spy," said Mr. Wise, who interviewed Mr. Howard extensively.

But in the fall of 2002, Curveball was living the life of an important spy.

The reporter Jim Popkin tells the tale of Ana Montes, "the most important spy you've never heard of".

When she was given the task of becoming Maclean's go-between, Harris was told he was the most important spy they had.

The CIA has pulled its station chief from Islamabad, one of America's most important spy posts, after his cover was blown in a legal action brought by victims of US drone strikes in the tribal belt.

At the end of one the most important spy operations run by the C.I.A. against the Soviets during the cold war, for example, the Soviet scientist Adolf Tolkachev was detained in 1985.

Mr. Hanssen is believed to have been one of Moscow's most important spies inside American intelligence during the last years of the cold war.

While MI5 ran other double agents during the war, Juan Pujol was one of the few who volunteered his services, and has since been hailed as one of the most important spies of all time.

But historians say Dr. Koval, who died in his 90s last year in Moscow and whose name is just coming to light publicly, was probably one of the most important spies of the 20th century.

One of those released to the US, Alexander Zaporozhsky, was a KGB colonel whose spying for the US is understood to have led to the unmasking of Robery Hanssen, an FBI officer, and Aldrich Ames, a CIA officer, two of Russia's most important spies in the US.

JW: Well, he was part of this post-OSS group that understood how important spying and covert ops had been in World War II.