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spying: see espionage espionage (ĕs`pēənäzh'), the act of obtaining information clandestinely. ..... Click the link for more information. . Spying Birch, Harvey a double spy, secretly in the employ of George Washington. [Am. Lit.: Cooper The Spy] Agent 007: super spy, super hero. [Br. Lit.: Herman, 27] (Central Intelligence Agency) U.S. intelligence agency. [Am. Hist.: NCE, 492] early Soviet secret police charged with guarding against counterrevolutionary activity. [Russ. Hist.: Benét, 190] old servant of Darnay; became a spy. [Br. Lit.: A Tale of Two Cities] opponent of foreign evil. [Br. Lit.: The Thirty-Nine Steps in Herman, 38–39] sent by David to inveigle Absalom’s confidence. [O.T.: II Samuel 15:34] the Committee of State Security, USSR agency (begun 1954) with responsibility for espionage and counter–espionage. [EB, V; 780] taciturn, blond partner of Solo from U.N.C.L.E. [TV: “The Man from U.N.C.L.E.” in Terrace, II, 60] Secret Service agent torn between duty and the desire to give up espionage. [Br. Lit.: Le Carré The Spy Who Came In from the Cold in Weiss, 440] (1876–1917) courtesan executed by French for German espionage (1917). [Ger. Hist.: EB, VI: 683]
garrison quartermaster discovered to be French spy. [Am. Lit.: Magill I, 715–717] People’s Commisariat of Internal Affairs, USSR police agency (1934–1943) that carried out purges of the 1930s. [EB, VII: 366] secret police agency, successor to the Cheka. [Russ. Hist.: Benét, 190] anti-hero of The Iperess File. [Am. Cinema: Herman, 28–29] spies on Hamlet and Gertrude. [Br. Drama: Shakespeare Hamlet] Conrad’s novel of the intrigues of a foreign secret agent (1907). [Br. Lit.: Magill III, 949–951] acronym for Smert Shpionam (Death to Spies), a section of the KGB. [EB, IX: 283] British Secret Service hero. [Br. Lit.: Le Cane in Drabble, 558] suave and debonair agent for U.N.C.L.E. [TV: “The Man from U.N.C.L.E.” in Terrace, II, 60] How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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The end and aim of spying in all its five varieties is knowledge of the enemy; and this knowledge can only be derived, in the first instance, from the converted spy. "I don't believe that," said Rosa, smiling; "if that worthy person is spying after any one, it is certainly not after my father. His work included the adjudgment of the arms of Achilles to Odysseus, the madness of Aias, the bringing of Philoctetes from Lemnos and his cure, the coming to the war of Neoptolemus who slays Eurypylus, son of Telephus, the making of the wooden horse, the spying of Odysseus and his theft, along with Diomedes, of the Palladium: the analysis concludes with the admission of the wooden horse into Troy by the Trojans. |
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