Covert agent

Definition
A covert agent is

{{Quote|(A) a present or retired officer or employee of an intelligence agency or a present or retired member of the Armed Forces assigned to duty with an intelligence agency &mdash;
 * (i) whose identity as such an officer, employee, or member is classified information, and
 * (ii) who is serving outside the United States or has within the last five years served outside the United States; or

(B) a United States citizen whose intelligence relationship to the United States is classified information, and &mdash;
 * (i) who resides and acts outside the United States as an agent of, or informant or source of operational assistance to, an intelligence agency, or
 * (ii) who is at the time of the disclosure acting as an agent of, or informant to, the foreign counterintelligence or foreign counterterrorism components of the Federal Bureau of Investigation; or

(C) an individual, other than a United States citizen, whose past or present intelligence relationship to the United States is classified information and who is a present or former agent of, or a present or former informant or source of operational assistance to, an intelligence agency.