Talk:Organizational structure of the Central Intelligence Agency

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"Contrary to popular belief or what is seen in film and television series, US-born, professional employees trained to work for the National Clandestine Service (CIA) are never referred to as "secret agents", "spies", "agents" or "special agents", they are known as 'Operations Officers' or 'Case Officers', or Officer for short. To highlight this point: within the intelligence community, the equivalent of an FBI Special Agent is a CIA Officer. Within the law enforcement community, the equivalent of a CIA 'agent' is an FBI informant. There does not exist any working title or job position known as 'CIA Agent', agents of the CIA are usually foreigners who pass along secret information to the government through CIA Case Officers, who are posted at US embassies worldwide"

However today I came across this CIA job ad for a "Special Agent/Investigator":

https://www.cia.gov/careers/opportunities/support-professional/special-agent.html

This seems to be a distinct role from the "Officers" as mentioned above, however is it therefore incorrect to say that CIA employees are never referred to as "special agents"?

Smiscandlon (talk) 18:13, 3 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Needs a lead section[edit]

This article needs a lead section, it's far out of sync with Wikipedia's style guide. I can work on it a bit, would be good to have better informed eyes on it too. -Pete Forsyth (talk) 15:51, 5 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]