intelligence officer

Noun

Meaning

a person secretly employed in espionage for a government

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

operative secret agent intelligence agent scout secret service spy intelligence agency case officer special agent double agent sleeper agent undercover agent intelligence operative secret service man covert agent
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Hypernyms

agent

Hyponyms

foot spy NOC walk-in agent provocateur provocateur

Examples

An unverified dossier composed by a former foreign intelligence officer and funded by the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee played a crucial role in the bureau’s decision to spy on Page, the DOJ inspector general concluded. Source: Internet

An Israeli intelligence officer present in the forward post, wishing to obtain information about the Phalangists' activities, ordered two distinct actions to find out what was happening. Source: Internet

Buttigieg served as an intelligence officer in the Navy and today he spent time at an American Legion Post in Merrimack. Source: Internet

Captain Hayward, an intelligence officer with British I Corps, referred to “four or five wonderful beings,” robed in white, who faced the German lines in brilliant sunlight with hands upraised to halt the advancing enemy. Source: Internet

British intelligence officer Major John André uses a honeypot to trap and arrest Lee at an inn in New Jersey and blackmail him to further help the British cause. Source: Internet

Harry Dunn was killed when he was hit by a car driven by a woman whose husband was an intelligence officer at RAF Croughton, a military base in central England used by U.S. forces. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

intelligence gathering intelligence information intelligence office intelligence operation intelligence operative intelligence quotient