desk officer
Headquarters intelligence analyst
A desk officer is an official who manages a specific portfolio from an administrative position rather than in the field.
In intelligence agencies and foreign ministries, desk officers specialize in particular countries or regions: the State Department's Iran desk officer.
The term emphasizes that the work happens at headquarters, processing information and coordinating policy rather than gathering intelligence or conducting diplomacy on the ground.
- analystOne who examines systematically
- intelligenceMental ability, cognitive capacity
- classified intelRestricted government information
- bureauOffice or furniture chest
- briefingConcise information session
classified · cable · embassy · foreign · state department · CIA · paperwork · need to know · clearance · cubicle · reports · liaison · diplomat · Washington · case file · assignment · regional · national security
- Intelligence Analystssenior analyst, junior analyst, CIA analyst, defense analyst, military analyst
- spiesJames Bond, spy, Jason Bourne, secret agent, Ethan Hunt
- diplomacyembassy, ambassador, ambassadors, treaty, treaties
- diplomatsambassador, diplomat, consul, envoy, emissary
desk officerfield agent
Deployed intelligence operative
field officer · case officer · operative · operator · undercover agent
desk, officer, desks, officers, office, offices, official, officials, officially