X writes in the foreword to one of his celebrated novels:
"The origin of my use of the word 'Y' to describe a long-term penetration agent is a small mystery to me, as it was to the editors of the Oxford English Dictionary, who wrote to me asking whether I had invented it.......But the OED couldn't find the trace and neither could I, so for a long time, I thought perhaps I had. Then one day, I received a letter from a reader, referring me to page 240 of Francis Bacon's.........."
Identify X (a person) and Y (a word).
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