counterspy
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counterspies
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Angleton, who died in 1987, remains a towering figure in intelligence circles among both supporters and detractors, a shadowy master counterspy who became the subject of both novels and nonfiction for decades.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 1, 2023
Kenneth deGraffenreid, a former deputy national counterintelligence executive and a senior counterspy official, said cuts in the number of Chinese diplomats are justified to combat Beijing’s spying operations in the U.S.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 28, 2020
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
CIA counterspies at the Counterintelligence Mission Center over the last several years studied dozens of cases of foreigners working for the agency who were killed, arrested, imprisoned or otherwise compromised.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 6, 2021
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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