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counterspy

n. A spy working in counterintelligence.

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counterspy

n. a spy who works against enemy espionage [syn: mole]

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Counterspy (radio series)

Counterspy was an espionage drama radio series that aired on the NBC Blue Network (later the ABC) and Mutual from May 18, 1942 to November 29, 1957.

David Harding (played by Don MacLaughlin) was the chief of the United States Counterspies, a unit engaged during World War II in counterintelligence against Japan's Black Dragon and Germany's Gestapo. United States Counterspies was a fictional government agency devised by the program's creator, Phillips H. Lord after Lord "had a certain amount of difficulty with J. Edgar Hoover over story content in Gang Busters." Mandel Kramer played Peters, Harding's assistant.

The program's plots progressed through three phases. During World War II they involved "threats from the Axis powers." After the war ended, Cold War threats took precedence. In the third phase, "they addressed all manner of illegal activities.

Scriptwriters for the series included Milton J. Kramer, Emile C. Tepperman and Stanley Niss.

Counterspy

Counterspy may refer to:

  • CounterSpy (magazine), a magazine edited by Timothy Butz
  • Counterspy (radio series), an espionage drama radio series
  • CounterSpy (software), an antispyware application of Sunbelt Software
  • CounterSpy (video game), a 2014 video game
  • Counterspy (film), a 1953 British film by Vernon Sewell
CounterSpy (software)

CounterSpy is a proprietary spyware removal program for Microsoft Windows software developed by Sunbelt Software.

CounterSpy (video game)

CounterSpy is a side-scrolling stealth video game developed by Dynamighty and published by Sony Computer Entertainment as a cross-buy and cross-save title for the PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, and PlayStation Vita. Subsequently, the game was released on Android and iOS on September 5, 2014.

The games received a mixture of average and positive reviews. It was mostly praised for its art and soundtrack.

Usage examples of "counterspy".

I am a counterspy, dedicated to tracking down foreign agents and traitors in our own country, one of the guardians of the safe, innocent world in which you live.

He said that Sir James was a top counterspy, that he was head of the Imperial Intelligence apparatus for Europe.

Leamas, comes into conflict with the environment of others, Communist espionage agents, when he accepts a mission to act as a counterspy for Control by pretending to defect to the East.

Mattan would never suspect that the household slave of an aged astrologer could be an unsuccessful counterspy or potential bride of Melqart.

His captors evidently had not discovered that he was a human counterspy, or they would have destroyed him out of hand.

Through an underground route of partisans, Grover, after assassinating a German counterspy in Calabria, was whisked by boat and railroad to Gibralter.

Luigi was a spy, or a counterspy, or an operative, or an agent of some strain, or simply a handler or a contact, or maybe a stringer, but he was first and foremost an Italian.

Carollo saw spies and counterspies and Communists everywhere, and claimed to have a dashboard bomb detector in his car.

Cuban counterspies claimed they had been monitoring his transmissions for months and had broken the CIA code.

I realized that the entire palace was honeycombed with spies and counterspies and people who spied for both the king and the queen.