Adjective an undercover operation to infiltrate the terrorist organization for months she's been an undercover agent pretending to be a drug dealer Noun within the city was a well-organized fifth column, and these undercovers would make themselves known as soon as the invading forces breached the city limits
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Viewers are likely to be most engaged by a sequence where the journalists and filmmakers are detained at an airport in Zambia, prompting some guerrilla filmmaking that will draw comparisons to similar undercover scenes from Blackfish. Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Sep. 2022 At first, Vi is reluctant while Veronica is more than willing, but soon mother and daughter are undercover spies, neither of whom would be suspected.Sun Sentinel, 7 Sep. 2022 Any truth to the rumors that Sam Vidlak is an undercover informant for Jonathan?oregonlive, 2 Sep. 2022 The undercover video of Gary Garcia Snyder, a Yuma Republican now running for the state Senate, launched the case against Fuentes and Juarez. Ray Stern, The Arizona Republic, 1 Sep. 2022 Morgan is chronicling his experiences — from the loss of his son to his Army service and undercover work busting child prostitution rings in Southeast Asia — in a new memoir called God, Family, Country out Sept. 27. Rachel Desantis, Peoplemag, 25 Aug. 2022 The convictions may boost public understanding of the FBI’s tactics in combating domestic terrorism, particularly use of undercover operatives, said Dennis Lormel, president of the Society of Former FBI Agents. John Flesher, ajc, 24 Aug. 2022 Defense attorneys repeatedly criticized the investigation, arguing that their clients were big talkers whose worst instincts were preyed upon by undercover FBI personnel who pretended to befriend them. Mitch Smith, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Aug. 2022 Taron Egerton plays Jimmy Keene, a man who is given the opportunity to shorten his 10-year prison sentence by becoming an undercover informant at a maximum-security prison, in this Apple TV Plus series based on the real-life Keene’s 2011 memoir. Bethonie Butler, Washington Post, 23 Aug. 2022
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That’s the trademark of a crack undercover: a genius for playing yourself. Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 30 Jan. 2022 Of the several hundred people who do face-to-face ops, most have only handled a couple of cases as the primary undercover. Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 30 Jan. 2022 In 2016, Kun Shan Chun, an FBI employee, pleaded guilty to operating undercover for China over the course of several years, accepting cash, using prostitutes, and living in exuberant accommodations overseas.Fox News, 22 Apr. 2020 But unlike seismic shifts of the past — ingrained into the American consciousness through a single catastrophic event — the novel coronavirus crept in undercover, one mind-boggling announcement at a time. Mandy Mclaren, The Courier-Journal, 20 Mar. 2020 This story has been corrected to show that the affidavit by FBI agent Tripp Godbee describes the actions of another agent working undercover to monitor online groups and were not the actions of Godbee.Washington Post, 9 Dec. 2019 Erica Meier, for one, leads a watchdog group called Animal Outlook, which gets the undercover, boots-on-the-ground activists into dairy farms, slaughterhouses, egg barns, and feedlots to collect images and video footage of how animals are treated. Chase Purdy, Quartz, 13 Feb. 2020 The show supplied a group of volunteers willing to go in undercover, and Horton was able to play a role in the selection of the final seven. Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al, 19 Nov. 2019 On Sunday, the actress officially joins the cast of the ABC drama as Nyla Harper, a former undercover detective turned John Nolan’s (Nathan Fillion) new training officer. Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 16 Oct. 2019 See More