Agent of influence is a term describing people who use their position to influence the decision making or public opinion in one country to produce results beneficial to another.
Accused agent of influence and convicted spy Arne Treholt
Alger Hiss was an American government official who, in 1948, was accused of spying for the Soviet Union in the 1930s. The statute of limitations had expired for espionage, but he was convicted of perj
Agent of influence
…the allegation lacks any concrete proof), but as 'agents of influence' working wittingly or unwittingly either for the American CIA or the Soviet KGB Alger Hiss: an agent of influence and spy. At the time of his exposure he had significant support among US politicians and only went to jail for lying under oath…
Hiss in the Johns Hopkins University yearbook, 1926
Hiss (front row, second from left) with Edward Stettinius (front row, far left) in Yalta c. January 1945
President Harry S. Truman addresses the first UN Conference in San Francisco (from left: unknown person, Truman, Harry Vaughan, Edward Stettinius, Hiss) on June 26, 1945.