spymaster

[spahy-mas-ter, -mah-ster]

noun

1. an espionage agent who directs a network of subordinate agents.

Word History and Origins

Origin of spymaster¹

First recorded in 1940–45; spy + master

Example Sentences

Carvajal had been a feared spymaster who went by the name El Pollo, or The Chicken, but fled Venezuela after calling on the army to back an opposition candidate and overthrow Maduro.

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Skarsgård's spymaster drives a knife into his torso to prevent Imperial interrogators from agonizingly extracting compromising information, but survives and is hospitalized under guard.

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Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, the highest-ranking spymaster in the US, called earlier for Comey to be jailed for "issuing a hit" on Trump while he was travelling in the Middle East.

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He was a high-born bon vivant, just like James Bond, and he was the secret intelligence spymaster in France prior to the war.”

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“One of Aspillaga’s major revelations was that Fidel Castro himself was serving to a large degree as Cuba’s spymaster,” Latell said.

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