counterspy
Example Sentences
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Once-secret government documents are revealing new, long-hidden details on one of the CIA’s biggest Cold War controversies, involving defecting Soviet intelligence agents and U.S. counterspy programs targeting the Kremlin’s strategic deception operations against the West.
From Washington Times • Jan. 1, 2023
Angleton, who died in 1987, remains a towering figure in intelligence circles among both supporters and detractors, a shadowy master counterspy who became the subject of both novels and nonfiction for decades.
From Washington Times • Jan. 1, 2023
We’re still haunted by the legacy of these spectral figures, their legacy of doubling and doubt—and, yes, the shadowy counterspy linked to both.
From Slate • Apr. 10, 2013
It might have been something he led certain acolytes to believe after Philby’s defection, to maintain his reputation as all-knowing counterspy.
From Slate • Apr. 10, 2013
A French counterspy had gotten his hands on a British spy’s list of ships carrying war supplies from French ports.
From "George Washington, Spymaster" by Thomas B. Allen
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
