abstract:In espionage, a field agent is an agent who works in the field as opposed to one who works at the office or headquarters. A field agent can work alone or in a group but usually has a case officer who is in charge.
Their answers are monitored, with any unusual physiological responses passed on to "a human fieldagent" who then subjects them to "a more careful interview process, " said CBP spokesman Bill Brooks.
One line of inquiry this week will likely be the so-called Phoenix memo, a missive written July 2001 by a fieldagent in Arizona who urged a broad review of Middle Eastern men taking flight lessons in the United States and raised the prospect that Osama bin Laden was involved.