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"we have 63 legal attaché offices—commonly known as legats—and more than two dozen smaller sub-offices in key cities around the globe, providing coverage for more than 180 countries, territories, and islands."

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> FBI personnel abroad serve under the authority of the Department of State, chief of mission at United States embassies, at the pleasure of ambassadors and host country governments.

These are known agents of the United States.

I had meant “precludes availability for covert foreign missions.”

I am not sure of this, however, to me, it does not stand a reason test to use an FBI agent as a CIA agent when they have entirely separate functions and responsibilities.

Yep, not uncommon for FBI HRT agents to be embedded with Joint Special Operations command deployments. I imagine other teams are as well.

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