counterspy
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Once-secret government documents are revealing new, long-hidden details on one of the CIA’s biggest Cold War controversies, involving defecting Soviet intelligence agents and U.S. counterspy programs targeting the Kremlin’s strategic deception operations against the West.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 1, 2023
A 1975 report to a presidential commission probing the agency’s domestic activities includes testimony by the former CIA counterspy chief who was forced out of his job in December 1974.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 1, 2023
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
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
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
Shanghai’s MSS bureau is focused on conducting operations against the United States and thus the information contained in the database would be useful for FBI and CIA counterspies engaged in tracking Chinese intelligence operations.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 6, 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
