Usually means: Internal group undermining own country.
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(Note: See fifth_columnism as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (fifth column)

noun:  A group of people which clandestinely undermines a larger group, such as a nation, to which it is expected to be loyal.
noun:  Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see fifth, column.

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