Editing Sleeper agent (section)

====Books and films====
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* In ''[[The Manchurian Candidate]]'' (the novel and its film adaptations), some Americans are captured by Soviet intelligence forces, given posthypnotic commands, and returned to their lives in the U.S.
* In the 1977 film ''[[Telefon (film)|Telefon]]'', Russian agents believe they are ordinary Americans until their memories are unlocked with a special activation phrase.
* The 1978 book ''[[Eye of the Needle (novel)|Eye of the Needle]]'' by [[Ken Follett]] and [[Eye of the Needle (film)|1981 film of the same name]] both show how a sleeper agent, Henry Faber ([[Donald Sutherland]]), operates in his target country.
* In the 1987 film ''[[No Way Out (1987 film)|No Way Out]]'', protagonist U.S. naval officer Tom Farrell, played by Kevin Costner, is revealed, in a twist at the end of the film, to be a Soviet spy under deep cover in the USA.
* In the British comedy-drama ''[[Sleepers (TV series)|Sleepers]]'', two Russian agents have integrated so well into their lives as British citizens, that when receive their activation signal, they go on the run.
* In the 2010 film ''[[Salt (2010 film)|Salt]]'', a CIA officer goes on the run when accused of being a sleeper agent by a Russian defector.
* The film ''[[Killers (2010 film)|Killers]]'', also released in 2010, has an assassin trying to leave his life as a government operative behind by getting married and living a domestic life, but he is then followed by many killers, who are near the end revealed to be sleeper agents working for his father-in-law, himself a former assassin.
* In the 2012 film ''[[Thuppakki]]'' and its 2014 remake ''[[Holiday: A Soldier Is Never Off Duty]]'', the sleeper cells attack the city of [[Mumbai]].
* The 2013 film ''[[Viswaroopam]]'' has an unravelling plot where the sleeper agents are scraping [[caesium-137]] from oncological equipment to build and trigger a dirty bomb in New York City. The main character, Wisam Ahmed Kashmiri, is also a sleeper agent against [[Al-Qaeda]] for [[Research and Analysis Wing|RAW]], posing as a Hindu Kathak teacher, Viswanathan in New York City. 
* In the 2015 film ''[[American Ultra]]'', small-town stoner Mike Howell spends most of his time getting high and writing graphic novels. What Mike does not know is that he was trained by the CIA to be a lethal killing machine. When the agency targets him for termination, his former handler activates his latent skills, turning the mild-mannered slacker into a deadly weapon.
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* Gustaf Skördeman's 2020 book ''Geiger'' shows a sleeper agent being activated in Sweden during the Cold War.<ref>{{Cite web |author = Anon. | date=2024-04-25 | title=Geiger | work = [[Goodreads.com]] | url=https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51483947-geiger |access-date=2024-04-25 | language=en}}{{better source|date=May 2025}}</ref>{{better source|date=May 2025}}
<!--* The 2021 film ''[[Black Widow (2021 film)|Black Widow]]'' involves Russian sleeper cells in the United States during the [[Cold War]], raising and brainwashing adopted girls, eventually bringing them to Russia, where they are trained to be Black Widow operatives.

====Television====
* The first season of the 2011–2020 series ''[[Homeland (TV series)|Homeland]]'' involves a recovered hostage who is accused of being a terrorist sleeper agent.
* The 2013–2018 television series ''[[The Americans]]'' features a pair of KGB agents posing as an average American family. It is set during the Cold War in the 1980s.
* In a season one episode of the modern-day [[Sherlock Holmes]] adaptation, [[Elementary (TV series)|''Elementary'']], a murder victim and her husband are unmasked as Russian sleeper agents by the main character.

====Video games====
* The main character "Alex Mason" of the 2010 video game ''[[Call of Duty: Black Ops]]'' is brainwashed by the Soviet Union,(Friedrich Steiner and Lev Kravchenko) In Vorkuta .His task was to kill President Kennedy. Until Reznov intervene to made him kill Dragovich instead.
*In the 2016 video game ''[[Tom Clancy's The Division]]'' players take control of a Sleeper Agent looking to protect what remains when New York falls to the "Dollar Virus" sending to the city into a pandemic frenzy.
*The main character of the 2020 video game ''[[Cyberpunk 2077]]'', in the storyline of its Phantom Liberty expansion pack, activates sleeper agent Solomon Reed by using the deprecated land-line system in order to get help with extracting the president of the New United States of America.
*In ''[[The Outlast Trials]]'', players control a "Reagent". They must complete "Trials" within the Sinyala Facility in [[Arizona]] during the height of the [[Cold War]] to earn their freedom. The game's many endings imply the successful transformation of these individuals into sleeper agents; a result of the harsh conditioning experienced through the Trials.

====Music====
*Taylor Swift's 2024 song “[[The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived]]” includes a line “...were you a sleeper cell spy? In fifty years will all this be declassified?” as a hyperbolic metaphorical explanation for why a man left her abruptly without explanation.
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