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Что (кто) такое fifth column - определение


fifth column         
¦ noun a group within a country at war who are working for its enemies.
Derivatives
fifth columnist noun
Origin
1930s: from the Spanish Civil War, when General Mola, leading four columns of troops towards Madrid, declared that he had a fifth column inside the city.
Fifth column         
A fifth column is any group of people who undermine a larger group from within, usually in favor of an enemy group or nation. According to Harris Mylonas and Scott Radnitz, "fifth columns" are “domestic actors who work to undermine the national interest, in cooperation with external rivals of the state.
Fifth Column (intelligence operation)         
Fifth Column was the name MI5, the British Security Service, gave to a World War II operation run from 1942 until at least 1947. It was initially intended to identify people who would be willing to assist Germany in the event of an invasion of the United Kingdom, but as it developed, it also acted to divert its targets away from harmful activities.

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Fifth column
A fifth column is any group of people who undermine a larger group from within, usually in favor of an enemy group or nation. According to Harris Mylonas and Scott Radnitz, "fifth columns" are “domestic actors who work to undermine the national interest, in cooperation with external rivals of the state.
Примеры употребления для fifth column
1. The fifth column have been coming in under nu–Labour.
2. You have proved to be too gullible and naďve, so much so that you have allowed a committed fifth column with a distinct profile to flourish under your very nose; a fifth column that is the final and vital link in these acts of terrorism, a fifth column that is at the crux of this matter.
3. Treating local Poles as a potential fifth column has provoked a strong reaction in Poland.
4. We are a fifth column, a demographic danger, a time bomb.
5. To dismiss Kenneth Clarke as a "frog–eater‘s fifth column" merely reflects xenophobia.