Talk:Sleeper agent

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Ummm, The addition of fictional sleeper agents w/ sf examples is I trust well meant, but... The definition isn't different as implied and certainly isn't as suggested (post capture torture = sleeper agent). There are certainly sf sleeper agents which better fit the definition, and there are numerous ones in other fiction. Along the lines suggested the Manchurian Candidate is one, and there was a Donald Pleasance episode in the original Outer Limits which employed the device (multiple agents activated by phone calls after years...), the Romulan agent on the station in Trouble w/ Tribbles is probably a better example from Star Trek. And there are probably better examples from actual history than those here.

I would suggest that added category would be better served with other than the current examples. I suggest they be removed. Thoughts, comments, reactions? The alternative definition is certainly inapposite. ww 18:39, 14 Jul 2004 (UTC)