WordNet
n. a person secretly employed in espionage for a government [syn: secret agent, intelligence officer, operative]
Usage examples of "intelligence agent".
From a source I shan't describe, I have learned that he joined a nomad band, later got into trouble with it, and took passage on a southbound ship of Riverfolk together with an Ythrian who may or may not have met him by chance but is almost certainly an Intelligence agent of the Domain.
He may be a Roman legionnaire, or he may be an intelligence agent of Terra's empire among the stars.
An intelligence agent I presume in England tipped a friendly amateur here that a courier was en route to you with something that'd interest us.
She was also a close friend of Ahmat, who could be damaged by his association with her, and Evan had hurt the young sultan enough without adding a turned intelligence agent to the list.
That was, indeed, the ideal post for an intelligence agent, since with the job came access to everything, plus foreknowledge of any counterintelligence operations under way.
An intelligence agent-I presume in England-tipped a friendly amateur here that a courier was en route to you with something that'd interest us.