From: Marcia Karp

Gunnar Jauch wrote:
> Also the innocuous term "sleeper" got a whole new connotation.
Gunnar,
    "Sleeper" has been around since after WWII (Cold War period) to
describe
someone who lies-in-wait to create mayhem of some sort.  The OED's first
citation is
     1955 H. Roth Sleeper ix. 66 Hollister.. was a sleeper-a member of
the
     Communist Party whose whole life was dedicated to the one big
moment.

There was a great English tv film about two Russian sleepers who'd made
lives in
England that they hated to give up.  Very funny and poignant.
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Not unlike Guiness's greagt parody, OUR MAN IN HAVANNA.

Cheers,
Peter