intelligence agent

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intelligence agent - a person secretly employed in espionage for a governmentintelligence officer, operative, secret agentagent - a representative who acts on behalf of other persons or organizationsagent-in-place - an operative serving as a penetration into an intelligence targetagent provocateur, provocateur - a secret agent who incites suspected persons to commit illegal actsbridge agent - an operative who acts as a courier or go-between from a case officer to a secret agent in a hostile areacase officer - an operative who also serves as an official staffer of an intelligence servicecodetalker, windtalker - a secret agent who was one of the Navajos who devised and used a code based on their native language; the code was unbroken by the Japanese during World War IIfoot - a member of a surveillance team who works on foot or rides as a passengerNOC - an undercover agent who is given no official coverspy, undercover agent - (military) a secret agent hired by a state to obtain information about its enemies or by a business to obtain industrial secrets from competitorswalk-in - an operative who initiates his own defection (usually to a hostile country) for political asylum