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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A person pretending to work as a spy for one government while actually working as a spy for another government.
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- noun espionage A
spy who pretends to work for one side, when they are truthfully working for the other/ passing information to the other.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a spy who works for two mutually antagonistic countries
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