Pentagon intelligence and security operations within the country are supposed to be limited to matters of direct military concern, such as counterespionage, protection against .
Already, the FBI has placed counterespionage squads of at least seven agents in all 56 of its field division offices over the past year.
Until he took over the service last month, Hellenbroich had been in charge of the Office for Protection of the Constitution (OPC), West Germany's counterespionage agency.
David S. Kris in AFP Today's case is the result of an outstanding long-term counterespionage effort by many agents, analysts and prosecutors that has thus far yielded three convictions,said David Kris, assistant federal attorney general for national security....
Stella Rimington in Houston Chronicle I wanted to move Liz Carlyle from the work she had been doing before, which was terrorism, to the counterespionage area,Rimington said. "And then I thought, what is it the Russians will be worrying about."