intelligence chief
Top spy boss
An intelligence chief is the head of a spy agency or intelligence service—someone who oversees covert operations, information gathering, and national security matters: The intelligence chief briefed the president on the threat.
The term applies to leaders at various levels, from a country's top spy to the head of a regional intelligence unit.
- spymasterHead of espionage operations
- directorOne who leads
- CIAU.S. foreign intelligence service
- covertIntentionally concealed
- classifiedRestricted from disclosure
eyes only · need to know · briefing · surveillance · Mossad · agency · clandestine · dossier · counterintelligence · shadow · secrets · MI6 · station · encrypted · clearance · analyst · black ops · black site
- officialsofficial, officials, bailiff, bureaucrat, congressman
- military leadershipgeneral, command, admiral, commander, defense secretary
- spymastershandler, control, case officer, M, C
- Soviet Officialsapparatchik, commissar, general secretary, first secretary, party secretary
- Persian Leadersshah, ayatollah, supreme leader, satrap, vizier
intelligence chieffield agent
Deployed intelligence operative
operative · foot soldier · junior analyst · case officer · asset
intelligence chieffield agent
Deployed intelligence operative
covert operative · undercover agent · boots on the ground · spy · deep cover agent
intelligence, chief, intelligent, intelligently, unintelligent, intelligentsia, intellect, intellectual, intellectually