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(espionage, slang) The American intelligence services (from a British perspective) or the British intelligence services (from an American perspective). quotations
[T]he grounded fieldmen, the trainers and the case officers who made their own murmured caucus always – they saw the question solely in operational terms. […] They saw the shotgun marriage with the Cousins as just another skilful bit of tradecraft in a long and delicate poker game.Referring to the Central Intelligence Agency of the United States.
1977, John le Carré [pseudonym; David John Moore Cornwell], chapter I, in The Honourable Schoolboy, London: Hodder and Stoughton, page 16
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