eli5: How do ‘Sleeper Agents” work?
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A sleeper agent is an agent who doesn’t do any actual spy work for a long period of time, like years or decades. This agent spends their time living a normal life, cultivating important relationships and making a career, preferably in an area like defense, diplomacy etc. Since they never do any spy work, they don’t get caught, and this allows them to get to really important positions deep and high in their field, with considerable access to information, resources and decision-making. Then, possibly decades later, they can be activated by their actual foreign country to a disastrous effect.
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