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as in spy
a person who tries secretly to obtain information for one country in the territory of another usually unfriendly country as the nation's top intelligencer, the director of the CIA should have been more skeptical of the information he was being fed

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Noun
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Noun
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Noun
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    Norah O'Donnell, CBS News, 2 Mar. 2025
Noun
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    Greg Wehner, Fox News, 28 Feb. 2025
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Noun
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Noun
  • After being asked by the FBI employee, Pang also agreed to provide two US military uniforms for operatives to wear inside the base during the attack, and a cell phone that could be used as a test for a detonator, court documents say.
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“Intelligencer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/intelligencer. Accessed 14 Mar. 2025.

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