| 单词 | dead letterbox |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdead letterbox 3. A person (more fully live letterbox) or place (more fully dead letterbox) through which spies pass information. Cf. letter drop n. (b) at letter n.1 Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > investigation, inspection > secret observation, spying > [noun] > information exchange letterbox1940 drop1959 treff1963 post office1965 1940 Strand Mag. Oct. 427/2 The ‘letter-box’ was an oak, which no one on earth would have known for a hollow tree; but hollow it was, and a canister lay within. 1955 J. Thomas No Banners xvi. 144 A circuit had to be organized into leak-proof compartments with letter-boxes or couriers as the only links between them. 1969 D. Hurd & A. Osmond Smile on Face of Tiger vii. 241 The silly girl popped out of the Home Office and they [sc. minutes] were in her usual letter-box within the hour. 1971 ‘R. Petrie’ Thorne in Flesh xv. 187 Aury, apparently, had been a live letterbox for a French security organisation. 1971 N.Y. Times 1 Oct. 18/5 The clip allegedly showed a Soviet official picking up secret material from a ‘dead letter box’. 2006 Sunday Tel. (Nexis) 3 Dec. 1 Agents communicate via ‘live letter boxes’ where secret material is carried by one spy to another or via ‘dead letter boxes’ where the material is left in a covert location. 2007 C. Aubin in B. de Graaf et al. Battleground Western Europe 39 Gerhard Born..acted as a letterbox in the Netherlands for German intelligence networks based in Cologne. < as lemmas |
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