CIA-equivalent to "The Feds"

I'm looking for a word or short phrase to refer to the CIA or CIA operatives which has a similar connotation to "feds" used to refer to the FBI or other federal groups. Specifically I'm looking for something used pejoratively, whether or not that use is common within America itself.

I've tried finding synonyms to things like Feds, Pigs, Spy, etc., but didn't find anything that felt obviously applicable to the CIA specifically. "Feds" itself doesn't feel appropriate to use for an agency which works outside of the US, even though the CIA is technically a US federal agency.

Sample Sentence: "We were in Russia on vacation, when the [American CIA] overthrew the government."


There is no official shorthand, and no colloquialism that applies to all aspects of the CIA, where the Feds refers to the collective FBI.

Spook refers to a spy specifically (a data analyist at the CIA is not a spook). If you said "We were in Russia on vacation, when the spooks overthrew the government." it would be understood that you are referring to the American CIA but only because spooks would have been active in causing the overthrow. You would not say "The spooks collated bank records and informed the local fusion center of inaccuracies."

And while others are pointing out that Feds has been used to refer to any federal agent and even moreso any authority via slang, it is commonly used to refer to FBI specifically. Nobody refers to the US Postal Inspection Service as "the feds." It is originally short for "Federal Bureau of Investigation" originating from mobsters referring to it in 1935.

Prior to the FBI existing in 1935 the term "feds" was not used to refer to NBCI or BOI though they were around for 40 years.