Definition of Counterintelligence

1. Noun. Intelligence activities concerned with identifying and counteracting the threat to security posed by hostile intelligence organizations or by individuals engaged in espionage or sabotage or subversion or terrorism.


Definition of Counterintelligence

1. Noun. counterespionage ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Counterintelligence

counterillumination
counterimage
counterimages
counterimmunoelectrophoresis
counterincision
counterinformation
countering
counterinitiative
counterinitiatives
counterinstance
counterinstances
counterinsurgencies
counterinsurgency
counterinsurgent
counterinsurgents
counterintelligence (current term)
counterinterpretation
counterinterpretations
counterintuition
counterintuitive
counterintuitively
counterintuitiveness
counterintuitivity
counterinvestigation
counterinvestigations
counterinvestment
counterion
counterionic
counterions
counterirritant

Literary usage of Counterintelligence

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. U. S. National Security and Military/Commercial Concerns with the People's edited by Christopher Cox (1999)
"The action plan also directs the creation of counterintelligence training programs and a counterintelligence analysis program. The Department of Energy will ..."

2. Records Relating to American Prisoners of War and Missing in Action from the edited by Charles E. Schamel (1997)
"Records of the counterintelligence Branch of the USARV Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations, Plans and Security (G-2, G-3, and G-5) 11.39 The Deputy Chief ..."

3. U. S. Strategy to Counter Domestic Political Terrorism by James B. Motley (1993)
"... FOR EFFECTIVE counterintelligence Policymakers in the United States must consider extending the intelligence community's knowledge of known world-wide ..."

4. Protecting Critical Information & Technology: Proceedings of the Fourth by DIANE Publishing Company (1997)
"As a result, their intelligence services were given a great deal of attention by United States Government (USG) agencies with counterintelligence ..."

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