case officer
Agent's intelligence contact
A case officer is an intelligence agency employee who manages spies and informants in the field.
The case officer recruits assets, maintains contact, receives information, and provides direction—serving as the link between human sources and the agency: Her case officer arranged dead drops throughout the city.
Distinguished from the assets themselves, who gather the intelligence.
One who manages something
- assetItem of value owned
- recruitmentSeeking new personnel
- tradecraftEspionage methods and skills
- clandestineConcealed from authorities
HUMINT · debriefing · covert · source · informant · dead drop · exfiltration · infiltration
Restricted from disclosure
- confidentialMeant to stay secret
- compartmentalizedDivided into isolated sections
- need-to-knowAccess limited by necessity
- encryptedTransformed into cipher
secure communications · covert · discreet · anonymity · cover · alias · assumed identity · deep cover
Supervision or inadvertent omission
- mentorTrusted wisdom-giving advisor
- advisorOne who gives guidance
- coordinatorOne who arranges activities
- supervisorOne who directs workers
liaison · briefing · directing · managing · facilitator · delegation · authority · guidance
handler
One who manages something
- assetItem of value owned
- recruitmentSeeking new personnel
- tradecraftEspionage methods and skills
clandestine · HUMINT · debriefing · covert · source · informant · dead drop · exfiltration · infiltration · brush pass
classified
Restricted from disclosure
- confidentialMeant to stay secret
- compartmentalizedDivided into isolated sections
- need-to-knowAccess limited by necessity
encrypted · secure communications · covert · discreet · anonymity · cover · alias · assumed identity · deep cover · false flag
oversight
Supervision or inadvertent omission
- mentorTrusted wisdom-giving advisor
- advisorOne who gives guidance
- coordinatorOne who arranges activities
supervisor · liaison · briefing · directing · managing · facilitator · delegation · authority · guidance · principal
- espionagespy, spies, double agent, double agents, spying
- Agentssecret agent, FBI agent, CIA agent, federal agent, field agent
- spiesJames Bond, spy, Jason Bourne, secret agent, Ethan Hunt
- Spycraftspy, agent, asset, covert, handler
- administrative lawadjudication, judicial review, regulatory agency, natural justice, rulemaking
- spymastershandler, control, station chief, intelligence chief, operations chief