What is the difference between a CIA Agent and a CIA Officer?

What is the difference between a CIA Agent and a CIA Officer?

Ronald Kessler (Author of "The Terrorist Watch: Inside The Desperate Race To Stop The Next Attack") gives expert video advice on: What is the 'CIA'?; What does the CIA do?; Where is the CIA located? and more...

A CIA officer is the full-time CIA employee who is a patriot in his own country, and he in turn recruits what are called agents. These agents are people, for example, in Russia, who might have secrets, who are Russian citizens, or, for example, may be someone in Al-Qaeda who might turn against Al-Qaeda. Those are traitors to their own cause, and if they're caught they can be prosecuted and killed.