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Definition of: fifth column
A group, within a city or country, of civilian sympathizers with an enemy, who act as spies, saboteurs, and propagandists: first applied to Franco agents and sympathizers in Madrid by Gen. Emilio Mola (1887–1937), who led four armed columns against that city in 1936.
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