CIA officer
American intelligence agent
A CIA officer is an employee of the Central Intelligence Agency who conducts intelligence operations—recruiting and handling foreign agents, gathering information, or running covert activities abroad.
Distinguished from CIA *agent*, which properly refers to the foreign nationals recruited by officers to provide intelligence.
The CIA officer posed as a cultural attaché at the embassy.
- spyCovert information gatherer
- agentOne who acts independently
- clandestineConcealed from authorities
- LangleyIntelligence agency location
- intelligenceMental ability, cognitive capacity
operative · handler · asset · covert · classified · need to know · surveillance · mole · double life · deep cover · extraction · tradecraft · cover · dead drop · station chief · counterintelligence · clearance · briefing
- Agentssecret agent, FBI agent, federal agent, field agent, double agent
- government jobscivil servant, civil servants, federal jobs, public servant, government jobs
- public workerscivil servant, firefighter, mail carrier, social worker, teacher
- interrogatorsinterrogator, questioner, cross-examiner, inquisitor, debriefer
CIA officerFBI agent
Federal law enforcement officer
sheriff · DEA agent · ATF agent · police officer · police detective
CIA officerwhistleblower
Insider who reports misconduct
Edward Snowden · journalist · investigative journalist · investigative reporter · leaker
CIA, officer, office, officers, official, officially, unofficial, officiate, officiant