> CIA gets insurance for their agents? The term "agent" in TFA's headline is causing confusion. The actual source quote says "intelligence personnel". The CIA

> CIA gets insurance for their agents? The term "agent" in TFA's headline is causing confusion. The actual source quote says "intelligence personnel". The CIA has many types of employees involved in foreign operations including station staff, case officers, analysts, security, etc. Only a small subset of those are doing what we'd consider "spying" and most of those are "official cover" operatives. That means they publicly work at the U.S. Embassy but as part of the trade delegation or state department. There are very few "Non-official cover" operatives (NOCs), and many of those are contractors or military personnel on loan to the CIA not CIA employees. TFA doesn't say this firm's insurance would be related to NOCs. In general, the vast majority of the work intelligence agencies do isn't even especially secret. Also, a lot of the information gathered is from sources who aren't CIA employees or even contractors, just business people or academics doing what they normally do and getting debriefed for half an hour on the phone about conversations they may have had or things they might have noticed.