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Re:The secret lives of MI6’s top female spies by twic on Thursday December 15, 2022 @05:29AM (#33997549)
That's not the correct definition. A spy is someone who does spying, and spying is obtaining information illicitly. Like the Cambridge Five:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_Five

Or Aldrich Ames:

https://www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/aldrich-ames

Someone who manages spies is an intelligence officer.

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