case officer


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Noun1.case officer - an operative who also serves as an official staffer of an intelligence servicecase officer - an operative who also serves as an official staffer of an intelligence service
action officer - the case officer designated to perform an act during a clandestine operation (especially in a hostile area)
intelligence agent, intelligence officer, operative, secret agent - a person secretly employed in espionage for a government
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Having served as a deep cover case officer with the Central Intelligence Agency, Jones (a pseudonym) became convinced that the Agency has become a corrupt, Soviet-style organization that hinders the success of its agents in the field.
A case folder is created and eventually passed to an authorization officer who will do a preliminary assessment of the case and then assign a suitable case officer actually to process the case to completion.
Written by a former field case officer with the Clandestine Services of the CIA, Memoir of an Alcoholic American Spy is a gripping true-life memoir of how the demons of alcoholism and the neglect of the CIA nearly killed him.
Remarkably, Coe's graduate studies led to a stint as a Central Intelligence Agency case officer in Taiwan.
"Today, operational camouflage is usually shredded within weeks of a case officer's arrival at his station, since the manner, method and paperwork of operatives is just too different from real foreign-service officers....
Gene Stratton is a former CIA case officer, and lived in Greece for seven years, as well as many other locales.
Among the projects in development are: a series on the drug war and a series on one of the oldest terrorist groups; one-hour films about the most-decorated case officer in the CIA's history; Vietnamese catfish, and a finishing school for rap musicians.
The second type you generally encounter in direct support of your operations is a case officer. Case officers are employees of the Directorate of Operations.
By consulting the plan on a periodic basis, the case officer keeps the investigation on the right track.
Sources said Manzoor, Aleem Liaquat (investigation officer of the case), Shahid Mehmood (the case officer) and Qaisar Mehmood (then in charge of NAB intelligence wing) got recorded their statements while a session of cross examination with the complainant was also held.
Melanie Williams, Shropshire Council planning case officer, said: "The proposal is for the erection of a sheltered seated area and improvements to the rear beer garden; increasing the size of the window in kitchen area to act as a serving hatch and internal and external redecoration affecting a Grade II listed building."
WASHINGTON - A former CIA case officer pleads guilty to conspiring to deliver national defense information to China.