spy rings
Secret agent networks
A spy ring is an organized network of spies working together, typically for a foreign government.
The term emphasizes the interconnected, clandestine nature of espionage operations—members may not know each other's identities, but they form links in a chain of intelligence gathering: The FBI uncovered a spy ring operating out of the embassy.
Also called an espionage ring.
- double agentsSpies betraying their employers
- MI6UK espionage agency
- secret serviceGovernment espionage organization
- KGBUSSR intelligence service
- molesBurrowing insectivore mammals
infiltration · spycraft · agents · intelligence · sleeper cells · surveillance · dead drops · dead letter box · sleeper agents · tradecraft · Bletchley Park · cut-outs · safe house · clandestine · debriefing · handlers · sabotage · Enigma machine
- espionagedouble agent, double agents, moles, secret agents, tradecraft
- secret networkssecret societies, cabals, cells, hidden networks, criminal networks
- secret organizationscabal, secret society, secret societies, conspiracy, sleeper cell
- resistanceresistance, defiance, resistance fighters, civil resistance, resist
- undergroundunderground, subterranean, cave systems, tunnels, tunnel