case officer
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7.5
- noun
- Jargon
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agente de caso
- The former Republican chairman of the House Intelligence Committee and ex-CIA case officer offered no reason for vacating the CIA directorship, and there was no successor ready to go.
- CIA case officer
And I had an interview with a former CIA case officer named Bill Wood.
- And I had an interview with a former CIA case officer named Bill Wood.
- And it was more about Elliott, who was Philby's case officer, if I can say that at the time.
- CIA guys are called case officers.
- At the end of that book, in fictional character, he says, I was Lee Harvey Oswald's case officer.
Examples
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An MI6 case officer takes a strange girl from an embassy party back to his hotel room where he has an unsecured briefcase full of Egyptian Air Defense codes.
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As a young man, he was assigned to the London station in 1941, where he served as the NKVD case officer for technical intelligence throughout the war.
Academic text (1996) -
I am your case officer.
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If you would give me your current name and ID number, I can put you in touch with your new case officer.
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And I had an interview with a former CIA case officer named Bill Wood.
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You're going to make a hell of a case officer.
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And it was more about Elliott, who was Philby's case officer, if I can say that at the time.
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I think the Agency has grossly underestimated you, and I'm recommending you for a senior case officer position.
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The Mossad has only between 1,200 and 1,500 employees at any time and fewer than forty case officers called katsas.
Fiction book (1994) -
The agent met with her case officer to discuss the operation's details.
Synonyms
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3.7
A person who works for the government to collect and report secret information about threats to the country
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3.0
A person who secretly works for a government to get information about the country's safety
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5.8
A person who secretly gets information for another country or company
How Senior
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound is partly compositional: a B1 learner who knows 'case' and 'officer' can infer an officer responsible for a case or file, so the general idea of someone in charge is clear. However, the specific, domain‑restricted meaning in intelligence (an agent who handles covert sources) is specialized and not predictable from the parts alone, making the expression only partially transparent.
Etymology
Case officer may come from the simple image of a police case and an officer: picture an officer with one file who looks after the people and work in that case. That's why the term now means an agent who recruits and manages secret sources.