Secret agent (disambiguation)
Encyclopedia
A secret agent is a spy, a covert agent
engaged in espionage
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Secret agent may also refer to:
Covert agent
-Covert agents in the United States:As it is used in the United States Intelligence Community, it is legally defined in 50 USCA §426.The definition is subject to judicial interpretation, but a reading of the plain language of that statute reveals that a covert agent can be an employee of the US...
engaged in espionage
Espionage
Espionage or spying involves an individual obtaining information that is considered secret or confidential without the permission of the holder of the information. Espionage is inherently clandestine, lest the legitimate holder of the information change plans or take other countermeasures once it...
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Secret agent may also refer to:
Films and television
- Secret Agent (1936 film), directed by Alfred Hitchcock
- Secret Agent (animated short)Secret Agent (animated short)Secret Agent is the last of seventeen animated Technicolor short films based upon the DC Comics character Superman. Produced by Famous Studios, the cartoon was originally released to theaters by Paramount Pictures on July 30, 1943.- Plot :...
(1943), the last of Paramount's "Superman" cartoon shorts - Secret Agent (1947 film)Secret Agent (1947 film)Secret Agent is a 1947 Soviet spy film directed by Boris Barnet based on a novel The deed remains unknown by Mikhail Maklyarsky with Pavel Kadochnikov in the leading role...
, a 1947 Russian film by Boris Barnet - The Secret Agent (1996 film), directed & written by Christopher HamptonChristopher HamptonChristopher James Hampton CBE, FRSL is a British playwright, screen writer and film director. He is best known for his play based on the novel Les Liaisons dangereuses and the film version Dangerous Liaisons and also more recently for writing the nominated screenplay for the film adaptation of...
based on the novel by Joseph Conrad - The Secret Agent (documentary) (2004), a documentary by BBC-TV about the British National Party
- Danger ManDanger ManDanger Man is a British television series that was broadcast between 1960 and 1962, and again between 1964 and 1968. The series featured Patrick McGoohan as secret agent John Drake. Ralph Smart created the program and wrote many of the scripts...
, a 1960s British television series, the second, hour-long version of which was retitled Secret Agent for U.S. broadcasts
Music
- Secret Agent (Chick Corea album), 1978
- Secret Agent (Judie Tzuke album)Secret Agent (Judie Tzuke album)Secret Agent is the title of the eleventh studio album by the British singer-songwriter Judie Tzuke, released in 1998.-Track listing:# "Tonight"# "Swallowing"# "Both Alone"# "That's Where My Heart Used to Be"# "The Girl I Want to Be"# "Secret Agent"...
, 1998 - Secret Agent, a James Bond-themed Internet radio channel on SomaFMSomaFMSomaFM is a listener-supported, commercial-free Internet-only streaming music station, which started broadcasting out of founder Rusty Hodge's basement garage in the Bernal Heights neighborhood of San Francisco, California...
- "The Secret Agent", a song by Hawkwind from the album Electric TepeeElectric TepeeElectric Tepee is the seventeenth studio album by the English space rock group Hawkwind, released in 1992. It spent one week on the UK albums chart at #53....
Videogames
- Secret Agent (video game), a 1992 computer game by Apogee Software
- Sly SpySly SpySly Spy, known in Japan as and known in Europe as Sly Spy: Secret Agent, is an arcade game developed and published by Data East in 1989...
, a 1989 arcade game, known outside the U.S. as Secret Agent