sleeper cell
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"Were you writing a book? / Were you a sleeper cell spy? / In 50 years will all this be declassified / And you'll confess why you did it?"
From BBC • Apr. 19, 2024
In 2007, a new squad supervisor directed a major intelligence initiative against a purported Hezbollah sleeper cell in Silicon Valley.
From New York Times • Sep. 1, 2021
Her group, the Stonehenge Alliance, which had become something of a sleeper cell, snapped back into action, writing to ministers even before the new scheme was announced by David Cameron in December 2014.
From The Guardian • Feb. 8, 2019
Belgian authorities described Mr. Assadi as the leader of a Belgium-based sleeper cell.
From Washington Times • Jul. 12, 2018
You're a --" I fished in my memory for vocabulary words culled from spy thrillers -- "you're a sleeper cell.
From Little Brother by Doctorow, Cory
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