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Article: Intelligence Officer
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- Encyclopedia of Espionage, Intelligence, andSecurity
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Intelligence Officer
An intelligence officer is a professional employed by an intelligence service. Members of the intelligence community make sharp distinctions between intelligence officers and intelligence agents, who are outsiders employed by the intelligence agency. Intelligence officers, on the other hand, are operatives of the agency itself, but their professional role
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and the fact that many are military officers and/or intelligence specialists
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gives them particular distinction.
The distinction goes back to World War II and the origins of modern intelligence agencies. At that time, Office of Strategic Services (OSS) manuals defined an operative as "an individual ...
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Article: Intelligence officer removed from post after ...
AP Worldstream;
February 7, 2003 ;
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... ... target was aborted when an Israeli intelligence officer refused to relay crucial information ... required him to disobey, said another intelligence officer, speaking Friday on condition of ... role on another base, said the intelligence officer. The Maariv daily, quoting military ...
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