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counterespionage

kown tuh re spee uh noj

  • n  spying on the spies

  • 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.
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  • 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."

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