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Intelligence officer

noun

A person secretly employed in espionage for a government. Synonyms: intelligence agent, operative, secret agent.

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"Intelligence officer" Quotes from Famous Books

... enormous quantities of munitions and stock. The success of these operations was due, not only to the energy of Benson and his men, but to the untiring exertions of Colonel Wools-Sampson, who acted as intelligence officer. If, during his long persecution by President Kruger, Wools-Sampson in the bitterness of his heart had vowed a feud against the Boer cause, it must be acknowledged that he has most amply fulfilled it, for it would be difficult to point to any single man who has from first ...

— The Great Boer War • Arthur Conan Doyle

... Major, still doubting, asked to see the rest of the English troops, and on being informed that these were all, would have rushed back to spring the mines that would have blown the place to pieces. But the Intelligence Officer had not wasted his time the previous night, and had very carefully cut the wires that led apparently so innocently from the central office of the fort. My friend brought this Major, a man of great importance in his district, ...

— Sketches of the East Africa Campaign • Robert Valentine Dolbey

Words linked to "Intelligence officer" : bridge agent, undercover agent, foot, agent provocateur, intelligence agent, operative, codetalker, windtalker, case officer, agent-in-place, NOC, provocateur, agent, walk-in, spy