Crossword clues for counterintelligence
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also counter-intelligence, 1940, from counter- + intelligence.
Wiktionary
alt. counterespionage n. counterespionage
WordNet
n. 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
Wikipedia
Counterintelligence (CI) refers to information gathered and activities conducted to protect against espionage, other intelligence activities, sabotage, or assassinations conducted for or on behalf of foreign powers, organizations or persons or international terrorist activities, but not including personnel, physical, document or communications security programs.
Usage examples of "counterintelligence".
The agents from the Egyptian counterintelligence branch suggested that Nancy bring this newly discovered asset to the attention of one of their agents, who was attempting to infiltrate Middle Eastern terrorist groups.
Starik had continued to observe him from afar when Angleton was in Italy after the war, and later when he returned to Washington to run the Counterintelligence arm of the CIA.
As such it has all of the intelligence, counterintelligence, and covert action responsibilities of other foreign intelligence agencies.
The military entrance polygraph is conducted by the military services on military assignees before their acceptance for a position at NSA and is directed toward counterintelligence questions.
If, on the other hand, it was Harrod or Komulakov, then the people who were shadowing him were likely countersurveillance or counterintelligence spooks-there to either protect Newman or finger him if he was disloyal.
The Congressional Intelligence Oversight Committee is directly responsible for approving programs of counter proliferation counterterrorism, counternarcotics, counterintelligence, and covert activities abroad.
Through the summer the counterintelligence people of both First and Second Chief Directorates had delivered him the three traitors in quick succession.
By the time Amadori was made a lieutenant in 1972, he was one of the top men in charge of Franco's counterintelligence team.
ARMY DEFECTORS FROM CUBA COMMISSIONED Fort Benning, Saturday-In a first for the army, two highly regarded former officers in Castro's military machine, experts in sabotage, espionage, covert operation, intelligence, and counterintelligence, have been commissioned with the ranks of first lieutenant at this base, announced General Ethelred Brokernichael, chief of Information and Public Affairs.
That was, indeed, the ideal post for an intelligence agent, since with the job came access to everything, plus foreknowledge of any counterintelligence operations under way.
The MVD, or Ministry of Internal Affairs, conducted most government intelligence, counterintelligence, and national police activities inside the Russian Federation.
Constantly at loggerheads with its bigger rival, the KGB, the GRU was responsible for all military intelligence at home and abroad, counterintelligence, and internal security within the armed forces.
There was no point in mounting a huge counterintelligence operation, sealing all the leaks and security holes that he could, if Iraq was going to pull out.
It is the sister organization MI-5, or the Security Service, responsible for counterintelligence within the United Kingdom’.
The memo was tided "Instructions for Separation of Certain Foreign Counterintelligence and Criminal Investigations" and it imposed a "draconian" wall between Counterintelligence and criminal investigations.