Sentence examples for most important spy from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

To American counterintelligence experts, Mr. Yurchenko's revelation about Mr. Howard seemed to explain why the C.I.A.'s most important spy in Moscow, Adolf G. Tolkachev, a Soviet aviation design scientist, had been arrested just months earlier.

Perhaps the most important spy he captured was Adolf Tolkachev, a Soviet scientist who had provided the C.I.A. with thousands of pages of secret documents on Soviet military aircraft designs and who is credited with helping the United States Air Force design new planes that could defeat the best the Soviets had on their drawing boards.

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.

Russian investigators believe that agents inside their own intelligence service provided information that led to the arrests of Aldrich H. Ames and Mr. Hanssen, the two most important Russian spies discovered in the past decade inside the American government.

When the coach stopped as usual at Milton Keynes he bought a Sunday newspaper and discovered for the first time that his hostess had been one of the most important Soviet spies of the 20th century, rivalling Kim Philby and Klaus Fuchs.