intelligence officers
State-employed spies
Intelligence officers are government employees who gather, analyze, or manage secret information about foreign powers, threats, or targets of national interest.
The term covers both analysts working with classified data and operatives conducting espionage in the field: The intelligence officer recruited assets inside the ministry.
Distinguished from intelligence agents, who are typically the foreign nationals recruited to provide information.
- espionageCovert intelligence gathering
- tradecraftEspionage methods and skills
- infiltrationCovert entry into organization
- surveillanceSystematic observation of subjects
- undercoverSecretly engaged in espionage
cover story · safe house · mole · honey trap · agents · counterintelligence · operative · HUMINT · handlers · field agent · clandestine · dead drops · brush pass · informants · spycraft · missions · cryptanalysis · reconnaissance
- espionagespy, spies, double agent, double agents, spying
- military personnelsoldiers, soldier, midshipmen, troops, ensigns
- counterterrorismDelta Force, raid, Navy SEALs, SAS, SWAT
- crime investigatorsdetectives, investigators, forensic accountants, undercover agents, surveillance teams
- Israeli FiguresGolda Meir, Yitzhak Rabin, Benjamin Netanyahu, Ben-Gurion, Gal Gadot
- military officerscolonel, general, major, admirals, field marshals
intelligence officersdiplomats
Foreign government representatives
ambassadors · press secretaries · soldiers · military officers · attachés
intelligence officerswhistleblowers
Those exposing organizational misconduct
leakers · Edward Snowden · defectors · investigative journalists · Julian Assange
intelligence officerstraitors
Those who commit disloyalty
double agents · moles · defectors · turncoats · collaborators
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