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* In the ''[[Star Wars]]'' prequel trilogy, Senator Palpatine becomes Chancellor of the Republic and [[Big Bad|Darth Sidious]] is the mastermind behind [[The Phantom Menace|the invasion of Naboo]] and [[Attack of the Clones|the Separatist Crisis]], which turns into [[Clone Wars|the]] [[The Clone Wars|Clone]] [[Revenge of the Sith|Wars]]. {{spoiler|They're the same person, whose ultimate goal is the downfall of the Republic and destruction of the Jedi Order.}} {{spoiler|And the Emperor, leader of the evil Imperial forces.}}
* {{spoiler|Viggo Mortensen}} does this in ''[[Eastern Promises]]''.
* ''[[The Man in the Iron Mask (1998 film)|The Man in the Iron Mask]]'': The Jesuits are actively opposing the king, so he decides to put a man in charge of finding their general and killing him. Of course, he chooses one of his close allies: {{spoiler|Aramis, who turns out to be the Jesuit general}}.
* ''[[The Departed]]'': {{spoiler|Frank Costello}} is an {{spoiler|FBI informant}}.
** Though that was ''after'' {{spoiler|he had built up his empire}} as a self-defense measure. A better example is {{spoiler|Sullivan}}, Frank's mole in the State Police, who's put in charge of finding the mole in the State police.
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* In ''[[Call of Juarez]]: The Cartel'', the Mendoza Cartel's high-ranking mole inside the U.S. government turns out to be Department of Justice Deputy Assistant Director Shane Dickson, the head of the special task force assembled specifically to deal with the Mendoza Cartel. In fact, the task force was [[Springtime for Hitler|designed to fail from the beginning]], which explains why all 3 members work together so poorly and are so obviously corrupt and/or insane.
* {{spoiler|Albert Wesker, in charge of the S.T.A.R.S. sent to the mansion}}, in [[Resident Evil 1]].
* In ''[[Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning]]'', the [[Big Bad]] of the {{spoiler|House of Sorrows Faction questline}} is the faction's leader {{spoiler|who is actually a Tuatha agent.}} He is even the one who recruits the Fateless One into the faction {{spoiler|and successfully manipulates him/her into removing one of the few obstacles left to his plan to destroy the House of Sorrows and claim its powerful magic for the Tuatha.}}
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* Admiral Canaris who was actually head of the [[Abwehr]] while also being part of the German Resistance.
* At the height of the [[Red Scare]], it was believed by some of the wackier [[Conspiracy Theorist]]s that President [[Dwight Eisenhower]] was a [[Dirty Communist|Soviet]] plant.
* Alfred Redl was the most devastating spy [[The Sound of Martial Music|Austria-Hungary]] ever had, giving [[Tsarist Russia]] virtually every scrap of data he could get his hands on to the point where by the time he was found out and forced to commit suicide, over a year of preparation did not even start to repair the damage by the time [[World War
** Though he was retired when he was found out. Interestingly, he was only found out because he had been so good at his role as a spy master for the Habsburgs: his reforms to the intelligence service had made the counter-intelligence branch quite effective at its job.
* [[Joseph Stalin]] has been accused of this, with some historians suggesting he may have worked as a spy for the Czarist secret police in the days before the Russian Revolution. If true, given that he would later become absolute dictator of the entire country under the movement he spied against and the virtually unchallenged head of the Communist world, it would probably make him the most successful example of a Mole in Charge ever. However, most historians have now dismissed this, as he was always referred to in Czarist police documents as a revolutionary terrorist, whereas their moles were always identified as moles.
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