Mole (espionage)
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
Related e |
Featured: |
In espionage jargon, a mole (also called a penetration agent, deep cover agent, or sleeper agent) is a long-term spy (espionage agent) who is recruited before he has access to secret intelligence, and subsequently works his way into the target organization.
[edit]
See also
- Agent of influence
- Double agent
- Economic and Industrial Espionage
- Espionage
- Sleeper agent
- Insider threat
- Traitor
- The Mole (TV series)
Unless indicated otherwise, the text in this article is either based on Wikipedia article "Mole (espionage)" or another language Wikipedia page thereof used under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License; or on research by Jahsonic and friends. See Art and Popular Culture's copyright notice.