Case officer

Machine-translated from the French article

A case officer (in British English, agent handler or human source handler in American English, Führungsoffizier in German) is a member of an intelligence service, a civilian or military official, responsible for recruiting and handling intelligence agents. The case officer must be distinguished from the intelligence agent: the latter transmits the intelligence to which they have access, while the case officer recruits the agent and collects that intelligence from them. The CIA long used the term case officer before adopting operations officer as its official title; in Canada, the terms used are handler, source controller or agent controller.