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This can be useful in capturing important information from an agent that is attempting to seek allegiance with another country. Unwitting double agent, an agent who offers or is forced to recruit as a double or re-doubled agent and in the process is recruited by either a third party intelligence service or his own government without the knowledge of the intended target intelligence service or the agent.Re-doubled agent, an agent who gets caught as a double agent and is forced to mislead the foreign intelligence service.The fact that doubles have an agent relationship with both sides distinguishes them from penetrations, who normally are placed with the target service in a staff or officer capacity." Peddlers, fabricators, and others who work for themselves rather than a service are not double agents because they are not agents. Double agent, "is a person who engages in clandestine activity for two intelligence or security services (or more in joint operations), who provides information about one or about each to the other, and who wittingly withholds significant information from one on the instructions of the other or is unwittingly manipulated by one so that significant facts are withheld from the adversary.There are several types of agent in use today.
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In popular usage, this term is often erroneously applied to a member of an intelligence service who recruits and handles agents in espionage such a person is referred to as an intelligence officer, intelligence operative or case officer. In espionage jargon, an agent refers to the person who does the spying a citizen of one country who is recruited by a second country to spy on or work against his own country or a third country.