You know, like in spy and crime shows. Idk why my brain isn’t braining, but can someone please what double and triple agents are? Can there be quintuple agents? How does it all work?
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James Bond flies over to Moscow and pretends to be Yakov Bondikov. He gets a job in the Russian military and starts sending secrets back to England. He is an agent.
But then he decides he doesn’t like England anymore. He tells Russia who he really is, and reveals whatever useful information he knows about England to them. Russia starts advising him not to tell England he hates them, and to continue pretending to be England’s agent. He’ll feed England misleading or less useful information so they still think he’s their agent, but it doesn’t really harm Russia and it hampers England’s goals. He is now a double agent.
But wait! All of that was a ruse! He was only pretending to be a double agent so that Russia would trust him more, and England knows not to trust anything he sends, and he’ll damage Russia when he gets the chance. He is actually a triple agent.
If he actually betrays England after that plan, he’d be a quadruple agent. And so on. So yes, you could theoretically be a quintuple agent. That would mean that you have told both countries that you’re really on their side, and also told them that you’ve told the other country that you’ve told your own country that you’re a double agent… I think?
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