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Recent Examples of counterintelligence
But after this conflict, with a heightened sense of insecurity, Iran’s counterintelligence operatives will be on particularly high alert.
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Richard Nephew, Foreign Affairs, 26 June 2025
The timing has transformed what might have been a routine budget hearing into a debate over national security priorities, with lawmakers arguing that cuts to counterterrorism, counterintelligence and threat screening programs could leave the nation vulnerable.
—Adeola Adeosun, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 June 2025
Ernesto Borges Pérez, a former Cuban counterintelligence officer who served 27 years in prison after he was convicted of spying for the U.S., was released Thursday from the high-security Combinado del Este prison in Havana.
—Nora Gámez Torres, Miami Herald, 25 Apr. 2025
Given a fake postmortem identity by British counterintelligence officers — no effort to find his family is made — he is dressed in a military uniform, sealed in a cooler, then ejected from a submarine near the coast of Spain.
—Jesse Green, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2025
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Richard Nephew, Foreign Affairs, 26 June 2025
The timing has transformed what might have been a routine budget hearing into a debate over national security priorities, with lawmakers arguing that cuts to counterterrorism, counterintelligence and threat screening programs could leave the nation vulnerable.
—Adeola Adeosun, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 June 2025
Ernesto Borges Pérez, a former Cuban counterintelligence officer who served 27 years in prison after he was convicted of spying for the U.S., was released Thursday from the high-security Combinado del Este prison in Havana.
—Nora Gámez Torres, Miami Herald, 25 Apr. 2025
Given a fake postmortem identity by British counterintelligence officers — no effort to find his family is made — he is dressed in a military uniform, sealed in a cooler, then ejected from a submarine near the coast of Spain.
—Jesse Green, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for counterintelligence
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But the ruling raises serious questions about the agency, which focuses on counterespionage, terrorism and sabotage.—
Willem Marx,
NPR,
3 July 2025
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China’s recent expansion of its counterespionage law to cover a much wider array of information, coupled with raids on some advisory firms and a pickup in exit bans on foreigners, has made the business environment more uncertain.—
Jami Miscik,
Foreign Affairs,
24 May 2023
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This wealthy municipality west of Lisbon was a turn-of-the-century haunt for aristocrats in search of its therapeutic thermal waters, before finding wartime fame in the 1940s as a den of espionage on both sides thanks to Portugal’s neutrality.—
Zoë Dare Hall,
Forbes.com,
18 July 2025
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In Trumbull’s case, he was arrested under a charge of espionage.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
17 July 2025
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Trump also hinted on Tuesday that Obama could be prosecuted after the latter’s administration reportedly ignored intelligence community assessments suggesting that Russia wasn’t directly meddling in the 2016 election.—
Ross O'Keefe,
The Washington Examiner,
23 July 2025
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Within 3-6 years: Widespread artificial general intelligence (AGI) emerges, with machines rivaling our brightest minds across intellectual domains.—
Arafat Kabir,
Forbes.com,
23 July 2025
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“Counterintelligence.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/counterintelligence. Accessed 29 Jul. 2025.
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