Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The branch of an intelligence service charged with keeping sensitive information from an enemy, deceiving that enemy, preventing subversion and sabotage, and collecting political and military information.
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- noun
counterespionage
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- noun intelligence activities concerned with identifying and counteracting the threat to security posed by hostile intelligence organizations or by individuals engaged in espionage or sabotage or subversion or terrorism
Etymologies
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Examples
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He claimed that he himself was a member of the CIA (a charge he later recanted) and said he had been recruited “between 1970 and 1971” and trained in counterintelligence in Panama and Venezuela.
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He claimed that he himself was a member of the CIA (a charge he later recanted) and said he had been recruited “between 1970 and 1971” and trained in counterintelligence in Panama and Venezuela.
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He claimed that he himself was a member of the CIA (a charge he later recanted) and said he had been recruited “between 1970 and 1971” and trained in counterintelligence in Panama and Venezuela.
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The website, MyanmarNargis. org, has a few telltale signs of being a false front operation -- what is euphemistically known in the field as "counterintelligence" -- headed up in fact by the SPDC.
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From 1948 to 1972, Mr. Gorham worked in Japanese counterintelligence in the Navy Department's Office of Naval Intelligence.
Don C. Gorham, interpreter/translator Post 2011
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In 1942, he joined the FBI, where he specialized in counterintelligence.
William Broe, former high-level CIA official, dies at 97 T. Rees Shapiro 2010
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Through sources in German counterintelligence he learned that, despite all public claims to the contrary, the Nazis planned to ghettoize all Jews in Hungary and then deport them.42
BARGAINING WITH THE DEVIL ROBERT MNOOKIN 2010
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Through sources in German counterintelligence he learned that, despite all public claims to the contrary, the Nazis planned to ghettoize all Jews in Hungary and then deport them.42
BARGAINING WITH THE DEVIL ROBERT MNOOKIN 2010
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Through sources in German counterintelligence he learned that, despite all public claims to the contrary, the Nazis planned to ghettoize all Jews in Hungary and then deport them.42
BARGAINING WITH THE DEVIL ROBERT MNOOKIN 2010
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Through sources in German counterintelligence he learned that, despite all public claims to the contrary, the Nazis planned to ghettoize all Jews in Hungary and then deport them.42
BARGAINING WITH THE DEVIL ROBERT MNOOKIN 2010
bilby commented on the word counterintelligence
Does this presume there was intelligence in the first place?
March 5, 2009