Mole

A mole is a deep-cover human-intelligence asset working in a sensitive position for an organization of interest, but whose supreme loyalty is to a sponsoring group or person outside the organization. Most real life moles such as Kim Philby and Jonathan Pollard feed information held by the governments for which they work to enemy regimes, but it is also conceivable that a mole can be someone working for one part of the government who feeds information to someone in another part of the government.

In the latter case, not all moles are aware of working as such, let alone would they be willing or interested. A sponsor can put forward an assignment to conduct a "security audit" or a "background investigation," and the official/s tasked to conduct it will not be aware that their reports are being used for unauthorized purposes.

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