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The Spy Who Came In From The Cold
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- The Service gave me a phony British passport; I went to the Royal Scandinavian Bank in Copenhagen and the National Bank of Finland in Helsinki, deposited the money and drew a passbook on a joint account—for me in my alias and for someone else—the agent I suppose in his alias.†
Chpt 9alias = alternative name
- The Service gave me a phony British passport; I went to the Royal Scandinavian Bank in Copenhagen and the National Bank of Finland in Helsinki, deposited the money and drew a passbook on a joint account—for me in my alias and for someone else—the agent I suppose in his alias.†
Chpt 9
- All I knew was the alias.†
Chpt 9 *
- Was the alias of the agent always the same?†
Chpt 9
- In the same way I used a different alias and of course a different passport for each trip.†
Chpt 9
- Did the Copenhagen or Helsinki banks ever write to you in London—to your alias, I mean?†
Chpt 13
- He went there under an alias to meet an American agent we have who was attending a world scientists' conference.†
Chpt 14
Definitions:
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(1)
(alias) an alternative nameIn some contexts, an "alias" refers to a false name -- as in one used by a criminal. In other instances, it may be a common name by which someone is known, but which is not on their birth certificate.
In computer software, aliases are commonly used to provide shortened names that identify files within a local scope. - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)