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counterspies

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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

As a result, the system was not secure enough to withstand targeting from MSS electronic counterspies.

From Washington Times • Nov. 2, 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