control-agent

Updated: May 25, 2025

We seldom if ever arrest any of the spies we track down, but keep watching, watching, watching, hoping that sooner or later the master-spy will be betrayed into our hands." "You don't think then," said Jane disappointedly, "that old Mr. Hoff is one of the important spies." "We can't tell yet. He may be just one of the cogs perhaps what they call a control-agent. We don't know yet.

William Andrew Johnston - The Apartment Next Door