Hoping to influence the new administration on North Korea, South Korea secretly dispatched its intelligence chief to Washington recently, following the foreign minister by only two days as part of a series of high-level briefings.
Levinson told colleagues that he was working on a cigarette-smuggling investigation, but the Washington Post reported, in 2013, that he had actually been on a C.I.A. contract, and was dispatched by intelligence analysts who had no authority to run operations overseas.
The other building damaged in the compound was the Patrols Branch, responsible for maintaining and dispatching the intelligence vehicles that prowl the Damascus area.
A1 Memo at Center of Leak Case Prosecutors in the C.I.A. leak case have shown intense interest in a 2003 State Department memorandum that explained how a former diplomat came to be dispatched on an intelligence-gathering mission and the role played by his wife, people who have been officially briefed on the case said.
Desperate to stem their losses, the Soviet government asked their socialist Algerian allies for intelligence help; and the Algerian intelligence services dispatched their own men to Afghanistan to pose as "mujahedin" alongside real Algerian Islamists fighting for Osama bin Laden.
Manning was dispatched to work in intelligence at a forward operating base in Iraq.
Others suspect that the fake Taliban leader, whose identity is not known, may have been dispatched by the Pakistani intelligence service, known by its initials, the ISI.
His advisers dispatched researchers to gather intelligence on Mr. Lowy, who had worked as a patent and an entertainment lawyer but had no known experience in criminal law.
The French authorities said they heard Marie Dedieu, 66, had died via intelligence officers dispatched by Paris to the region to seek her release.
With a freer hand under Mr. Sharif, the intelligence agency dispatched military advisers to a former Soviet base in Rishikor, southwest of Kabul, to set up a training camp for volunteers sent by Pakistani religious parties to fight in Afghanistan and Kashmir.
