11.   Instead of relying on case officers who recruit people to steal information, Chinese intelligence operations focus on scientist-to-scientist technical meetings in China.

12.   Mendez worked with Hollywood makeup men and hardened CIA case officers to perfect the craft of creating counterfeit people.

13.   Readers must look at some of the tales Baer recounts with the same skepticism a case officer applies to information some agents bring him.

14.   Robert Baer, a CIA case officer in the Middle East and Asia for more than two decades, was upbeat.

15.   Station chiefs and case officers had great discretion in choosing their recruits.

16.   The committee also said that the nation needed to increase its front line field officers, clandestine case officers and defense attaches.

17.   The House committee focused in its report on the shortage of intelligence analysts and case officers with foreign language skills.

18.   The old approach, where a case officer goes out and meets a source up in the mountains in Afghanistan, you are risking getting someone killed.

19.   The risk runs from having a case officer killed to annoying another government.

20.   Traditionally, the quality of information picked up by case officers is questionable at best.