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  1. A group within a country secretly aiding an
  2. enemy attacking from without. The term
  3. originated 1936 during the Spanish Civil War,
  4. when Gen Mola boasted that Franco supporters
  5. were attacking Madrid with four columns and
  6. that they had a `fifth column' inside the
  7. city.
  8.