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- 1. an agent who pretends to act as a spy for one country or organization while in fact acting on behalf of an enemy: "a suspected double agent"
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In the field of counterintelligence, a double agent is an employee of a secret intelligence service for one country, whose primary purpose is to spy on a target organization of another country, but who is now spying on their own country's organization for the target organization. Wikipedia