counterspy
- n a spy who works against enemy espionage
- It is imbued with a messianic ideology that makes it relatively immune to the lure of cash, the counterspy's usual inducement.
- At times, the strain of maintaining his three identitiescitizen, Communist, counterspywas almost more than Philbrick could stand.
- Among other things, said Capital, the report showed that the best-placed East German agent in Bonn was not Guillaume but Nollau, 63, a self-effacing career counterspy who had .