Agent may refer to:
Espionage, investigation, and law
- Espionage § Agents in espionage, spies or intelligence officers
- Law of agency, laws involving a person authorized to act on behalf of another
- Agent of record, a person with a contractual agreement with an insurance policy owner
- Election agent, a person responsible for the conduct of a political campaign
- Free agent, a sports player who is eligible to sign with any club or franchise
- Literary agent, an agent who represents writers and their written works
- Modeling agency, a person or a corporation which represents fashion models
- Press agent, a professional publicist
- Foreign agent, a person who carries out the interests of a foreign country
- Political agent (disambiguation)
- Patent attorney, an attorney who represents clients in patent matters
- Real estate agent, an intermediary between sellers and buyers of real estate
- Registered agent, in the US, receives service of process for a party in a legal action
- Shipping agent, a person responsible for handling shipments and cargo
- Sports agent, a legal representative for professional sports figures such as athletes and coaches
- Talent agent or booking agent, a person who finds jobs for entertainment professionals
- Trade mark agent, a person who represents clients in trade mark matters
- Travel agent, a retailer that provides travel and tourism related services
- Special agent, an American criminal investigator or detective for example
Arts and entertainment
Fictional characters
- Agent (comics), a Marvel Comics character
- Agent (The Matrix), a group of characters in the series
- The Agents, superhuman characters in Seven Samurai 20XX
Film and television
- The Agent (1922 film), featuring Oliver Hardy
- The Agent (2010 film), a short film
- Agent (film), an upcoming spy thriller film
- Agent (TV series), a Polish reality competition
Music
- Agent (band), an American hardcore band from Long Island, New York
- Agents (Finnish band), a Finnish schlager/rock'n'roll band
- The Agents (Australian band), led by James Griffin
- "Intro: The Agent", by Rhymefest from El Che (2010)
- "The Agent" (Little Man Tate song) (2006)
Other uses in arts and entertainment
- Agent (video game), a stealth action game
Science and technology
Biology and chemistry
- Biological agent, a bacterium, virus, protozoan, parasite, or fungus used as a weapon
- Chemical agent, used as a chemical weapon
Computing
- Agent architecture, a blueprint for software agents and control systems
- Agent-based model, a computational model for simulating the actions and interactions of individuals
- Intelligent agent, an autonomous, goal-directed entity which observes and acts upon an environment
- Software agent, a piece of software that acts for a user or other program
- User agent, software that is acting on behalf of a user
Other uses
- Agency (philosophy), the capacity of an actor to act in a given environment
- Agency (psychology), an attribute of humans and non-human animals
- Agent (economics), an actor and decision maker in a model
- Agent (grammar), in linguistics, the thematic relation of a cause or initiator to an event
- Agent noun, a word identifying an actor, derived from a word denoting an action
- Cleaning agent, a substance used to remove bad smells, clutter, dirt, dust, or stains on surfaces
See also
- All pages with titles containing Agent
- All pages with titles beginning with Agent
- Agency (disambiguation)
- Agent 13 (disambiguation)
- Agent X (disambiguation)
- Bot (disambiguation)
- Get Smart, an American comedy TV series which parodies the secret agent genre
- Secret Agent (disambiguation)
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Agents in espionage
In espionage jargon, an "agent" is the person who does the spying. They may be a citizen of a country recruited by that country to spy on another; a citizen of a country recruited by that country to carry out false flag assignments disrupting his own country; a citizen of one country who is recruited by a second country to spy on or work against his own country or a third country, and more.
In popular usage, this term is sometimes confused with an intelligence officer, intelligence operative, or case officer who recruits and handles agents.
Among the most common forms of agent are:
- Agent provocateur: instigates trouble or provides information to gather as many people as possible into one location for an arrest.
- Intelligence agent: provides access to sensitive information through the use of special privileges. If used in corporate intelligence gathering, this may include gathering information of a corporate business venture or stock portfolio. In economic intelligence, "Economic Analysts may use their specialized skills to analyze and interpret economic trends and developments, assess and track foreign financial activities, and develop new econometric and modelling methodologies."[17] This may also include information of trade or tariff.
- Agent-of-influence: provides political influence in an area of interest, possibly including publications needed to further an intelligence service agenda.[13] The use of the media to print a story to mislead a foreign service into action, exposing their operations while under surveillance.
- Double agent:
engages in clandestine activity for two intelligence or security
services (or more in joint operations), who provides information about
one or about each to the other, and who wittingly withholds significant
information from one on the instructions of the other or is unwittingly
manipulated by one so that significant facts are withheld from the
adversary. Peddlers, fabricators,
and others who work for themselves rather than a service are not double
agents because they are not agents. The fact that double agents have an
agent relationship with both sides distinguishes them from
penetrations, who normally are placed with the target service in a staff
or officer capacity."[18]
- Redoubled agent: forced to mislead the foreign intelligence service after being caught as a double agent.
- Unwitting double agent: offers or is forced to recruit as a double or redoubled agent and in the process is recruited by either a third-party intelligence service or his own government without the knowledge of the intended target intelligence service or the agent. This can be useful in capturing important information from an agent that is attempting to seek allegiance with another country. The double agent usually has knowledge of both intelligence services and can identify operational techniques of both, thus making third-party recruitment difficult or impossible. The knowledge of operational techniques can also affect the relationship between the operations officer (or case officer) and the agent if the case is transferred by an operational targeting officer] to a new operations officer, leaving the new officer vulnerable to attack. This type of transfer may occur when an officer has completed his term of service or when his cover is blown.
- Sleeper agent: recruited to wake up and perform a specific set of tasks or functions while living undercover in an area of interest. This type of agent is not the same as a deep cover operative, who continually contacts a case officer to file intelligence reports. A sleeper agent is not in contact with anyone until activated.
- Triple agent: works for three intelligence services.[how?]
Less common or lesser known forms of agent include:
- Access agent: provides access to other potential agents by providing offender profiling information that can help lead to recruitment into an intelligence service.
- Confusion agent: provides misleading information to an enemy intelligence service or attempts to discredit the operations of the target in an operation.
- Facilities agent: provides access to buildings, such as garages or offices used for staging operations, resupply, etc.
- Illegal agent: lives in another country under false credentials and does not report to a local station. A nonofficial cover operative can be dubbed an "illegal"[19] when working in another country without diplomatic protection.
- Principal agent: functions as a handler for an established network of agents, usually considered "blue chip".
Law
Espionage against a nation is a crime under the legal code of many nations. In the United States, it is covered by the Espionage Act of 1917. The risks of espionage vary. A spy violating the host country's laws may be deported, imprisoned, or even executed. A spy violating its own country's laws can be imprisoned for espionage or/and treason (which in the United States and some other jurisdictions can only occur if they take up arms or aids the enemy against their own country during wartime), or even executed, as the Rosenbergs were. For example, when Aldrich Ames handed a stack of dossiers of U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) agents in the Eastern Bloc to his KGB-officer "handler", the KGB "rolled up" several networks, and at least ten people were secretly shot. When Ames was arrested by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), he faced life in prison; his contact, who had diplomatic immunity, was declared persona non grata and taken to the airport. Ames' wife was threatened with life imprisonment if her husband did not cooperate; he did, and she was given a five-year sentence. Hugh Francis Redmond, a CIA officer in China, spent nineteen years in a Chinese prison for espionage—and died there—as he was operating without diplomatic cover and immunity.[20]
In United States law, treason,[21] espionage,[22] and spying[23] are separate crimes. Treason and espionage have graduated punishment levels.
The United States in World War I passed the Espionage Act of 1917. Over the years, many spies, such as the Soble spy ring, Robert Lee Johnson, the Rosenberg ring, Aldrich Hazen Ames,[24] Robert Philip Hanssen,[25] Jonathan Pollard, John Anthony Walker, James Hall III, and others have been prosecuted under this law.
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A polity is an identifiable political entity – a group of people with a collective identity, who are organized by some form of institutionalized social relations, and have a capacity to mobilize resources.[1] A polity can be any other group of people organized for governance (such as a corporate board), the government of a country, or of a country subdivision. A polity may be a republic administered by an elected representative, or the realm of a hereditary monarch.
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Politics (from Greek: Πολιτικά, politiká, 'affairs of the cities') is the set of activities that are associated with making decisions in groups, or other forms of power relations among individuals, such as the distribution of resources or status. The branch of social science that studies politics and government is referred to as political science.
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The law of agency is an area of commercial law dealing with a set of contractual, quasi-contractual and non-contractual fiduciary relationships that involve a person, called the agent, that is authorized to act on behalf of another (called the principal) to create legal relations with a third party.[1] Succinctly, it may be referred to as the equal relationship between a principal and an agent whereby the principal, expressly or implicitly, authorizes the agent to work under their control and on their behalf. The agent is, thus, required to negotiate on behalf of the principal or bring them and third parties into contractual relationship. This branch of law separates and regulates the relationships between:
- agents and principals (internal relationship), known as the principal-agent relationship;
- agents and the third parties with whom they deal on their principals' behalf (external relationship); and
- principals and the third parties when the agents deal.
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A fiduciary is a person who holds a legal or ethical relationship of trust with one or more other parties (person or group of persons). Typically, a fiduciary prudently takes care of money or other assets for another person. One party, for example, a corporate trust company or the trust department of a bank, acts in a fiduciary capacity to another party, who, for example, has entrusted funds to the fiduciary for safekeeping or investment. Likewise, financial advisers, financial planners, and asset managers, including managers of pension plans, endowments, and other tax-exempt assets, are considered fiduciaries under applicable statutes and laws.[1] In a fiduciary relationship, one person, in a position of vulnerability, justifiably vests confidence, good faith, reliance, and trust in another whose aid, advice, or protection is sought in some matter.[2]: at p. 68 [3] In such a relation, good conscience requires the fiduciary to act at all times for the sole benefit and interest of the one who trusts.
A fiduciary is someone who has undertaken to act for and on behalf of another in a particular matter in circumstances which give rise to a relationship of trust and confidence.
Fiduciary duties in a financial sense exist to ensure that those who manage other people's money act in their beneficiaries' interests, rather than serving their own interests.
A fiduciary duty[5] is the highest standard of care in equity or law. A fiduciary is expected to be extremely loyal to the person to whom he owes the duty (the "principal") such that there must be no conflict of duty between fiduciary and principal, and the fiduciary must not profit from their position as a fiduciary,[6] unless the principal consents.[7] The nature of fiduciary obligations differs among jurisdictions. In Australia, only proscriptive or negative fiduciary obligations are recognised,[3]: at p. 113 [8]: at p. 198 [9] whereas in Canada, fiduciaries can come under both proscriptive (negative) and prescriptive (positive) fiduciary obligations.[10][11]
In English common law, the fiduciary relation is an important concept within a part of the legal system known as equity. In the United Kingdom, the Judicature Acts merged the courts of equity (historically based in England's Court of Chancery) with the courts of common law, and as a result the concept of fiduciary duty also became applicable in common law courts.
When a fiduciary duty is imposed, equity requires a different, stricter standard of behavior than the comparable tortious duty of care in common law. The fiduciary has a duty not to be in a situation where personal interests and fiduciary duty conflict, not to be in a situation where their fiduciary duty conflicts with another fiduciary duty, and a duty not to profit from their fiduciary position without knowledge and consent. A fiduciary ideally would not have a conflict of interest. It has been said that fiduciaries must conduct themselves "at a level higher than that trodden by the crowd"[12] and that "[t]he distinguishing or overriding duty of a fiduciary is the obligation of undivided loyalty".[13]: at par. 289
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Materiality is the significance of facts to the matter at hand.[1]
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