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counterspy

[kaun-ter-spahy] / ˈkaʊn tərˌspaɪ /
NOUN
double agent
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Postal service and couriers and internet service providers must assist counterspy probes, the law says.

From Washington Times ● Jul. 5, 2023

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

If Philby was, as many have called him, the spy of the century, James Angleton was the counterspy of the century.

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

The CIA is the agency chiefly involved in spies and counterspies.

From Slate ● Jul. 1, 2026

U.S. intelligence officials have said Chinese counterspies rolled up scores of recruited U.S. agents in China beginning in 2010.

From Washington Times ● Jul. 21, 2022

Court documents say the books were found in August 2012 when FBI counterspies carried out a covert search of a Honolulu hotel room where Mr. Lee was staying.

From Washington Times ● Jan. 22, 2018

The first targets of Iraq’s counterspies were CIA contacts in the fledgling Iraq National Intelligence Service, or INIS, set up by the CIA in 2004, Maguire and others say.

From Newsweek

Such a move has to be arranged in a complicated way, with cutouts, coded letters, and a “safe house,” a place where the case officer and his agent will not be detected by counterspies.

From "George Washington, Spymaster" by Thomas B. Allen




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