wirepuller

He is seen to be a cold-blooded international tycoon and wirepuller, whose “digger” image is wholly cynical and whose global ruthlessness is a matter for shame.

He called Johnson a "scheming wirepuller" who ought to rename the White House the "White wash House."

I have never done anything; I have never been a doer, a canvasser, a wirepuller, a manager, in the ordinary sense of these words.

“You were lucky to have such an attractive wirepuller,” I frigidly announced.

Occupation in peace, with a reduced establishment, was not easy to get, and his brother, an inveterate wirepuller, must needs know to whose favor Nelson owed it.