field agents
Spies deployed abroad
Field agents are personnel who work outside an organization's headquarters, operating in the locations where action happens.
The term appears most often in intelligence and law enforcement contexts: CIA field agents gathered information in the capital.
Insurance companies and sales organizations also employ field agents who visit clients rather than working from offices.
The contrast is always with desk-bound staff at headquarters.
- operativeCovert field agent
- case officerIntelligence operative supervisor
- moleSubterranean insectivore
- infiltratorOne who enters covertly
- deep coverProlonged covert infiltration
counterintelligence · spy · handler · reconnaissance · espionage · detective · ecologist · cryptographer · technician · customs officer · extraction · need to know · informants · surveillance · archaeologist · anthropologist · botanist · installer
- espionagespy, spies, double agents, spying, moles
- sales repssales reps, representatives, sales agents, drummers, pitchmen
- counterterrorismDelta Force, raid, Navy SEALs, SAS, intelligence gathering
- microfinancemicrocredit, small loans, microloan, microloans, group lending
- government workerscivil servants, federal workers, civil servant, bureaucrat, federal employees
- taxationtax, income tax, sales tax, tax return, tax refund
field agentsanalysts
Those who dissect data
support staff · handlers · case managers · desk jockeys · backroom staff
field agentssenior management
Highest-ranking organizational leaders
directors · executives · chiefs · brass · supervisors