counterintelligence

Activities aimed to protect intelligence operations from enemy intelligence agencies

EntityQ501700

Also known as counter-espionage · counterspy

Subclass of: occupational activity

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Counterintelligence (counter-intelligence) and its primary subfield, counterespionage (counter-espionage), are activities aimed at protecting an agency's intelligence program from an opposition's intelligence service. It includes gathering information and conducting activities to prevent espionage, sabotage, assassinations or other intelligence activities conducted by, for, or on behalf of foreign powers, organizations or persons.

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21 statements · 29% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations

Practiced by: intelligence agent

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20 identifiers linking counterintelligence across the web's reference databases

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29%

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