Italy's spymaster identified an Italian occasional spy named Rocco Martino on Thursday as the disseminator of forged documents that described efforts by Iraq to buy uranium ore from Niger for a nuclear weapons program, three lawmakers said Thursday.

Gabriel Allon, an art restorer and an occasional spy for the Israeli secret service, uncovers a Qaeda plot against the Vatican.

Gabriel Allon, an art restorer and an occasional spy for the Israeli secret service, investigates a terrorist bombing in Rome.

There are plenty of diplomats -French, Chinese and otherwise - in Washington, and, the record shows, an occasional spy.

Writer, compulsive traveller and occasional spy, Somerset Maugham bought Villa Mauresque in 1928 and began a period of sensationally prolific literary output amid the French Riviera's most beautiful people.

An art restorer and occasional spy for the Israeli secret service investigates a terrorist bombing.

She also appeared in the Bond satire Casino Royale (1967) as Vesper Lynd, an occasional spy who persuades Evelyn Tremble, as played by Peter Sellers, to carry out a mission.

Besides Okasa and a couple of one-shot ninja adversaries, the series mostly featured corrupt businessmen, and the occasional spy or terrorist, as villains.

Two months ago, Italian intelligence officials concluded that a set of documents at the center of the supposed Iraq-Niger link had been forged by an occasional Italian spy.

Such authenticities could well be taken from expatriate mythology, which tries to identify the occasional real spies who float through the expatriate community.