intelligence officer
Government secret gatherer
An intelligence officer is a professional who gathers, analyzes, or manages secret information for a government agency or military organization.
The role encompasses field operatives who recruit sources and collect intelligence abroad, as well as analysts who interpret data at headquarters: She spent twenty years as a CIA intelligence officer.
Distinguished from intelligence agents, who are typically the recruited sources rather than the officers handling them.
- operativeCovert field agent
- espionageCovert intelligence gathering
- secret agentClandestine government operative
- field agentDeployed intelligence operative
- spyCovert information gatherer
disguise · agent · classified information · burned agent · tradecraft · cover story · clandestine · codebreaking · dead drop · brush pass · handler · station chief · file · defection · national security · counterterrorism · dossier · legend
- espionagespy, spies, double agent, double agents, spying
- Spy Fictionspy, secret agent, double agent, MI6, CIA
- Agentssecret agent, FBI agent, CIA agent, federal agent, field agent
- expertsexperts, expert, specialist, masters, specialists
- investigatorsdetective, investigator, inspector, sleuth, gumshoe
- military jobssoldier, infantryman, marine, sailor, combat medic
intelligence officerdiplomat
Official foreign representative
ambassador · consul · attaché · cultural attaché · press secretary
intelligence officerasset
Item of value owned
source · informant · person of interest · enemy agent · double agent
intelligence officerwhistleblower
Insider who reports misconduct
leaker · dissident · Edward Snowden · traitor · foreign agent
officer, intelligent, intelligence, intellectual, intellect, intelligible, intelligently, intellectuals, intelligibility