counterespionage [
`kaʊntɚ'ɛspɪənɪdʒ]
counterespionage[ noun ]
spying on the spies
<noun.act>
- The weekend edition of Liberation reported that agents of the French counterespionage agency shot the footage in early 1989.
- Among them was Hans-Joachim Tiedge, West Germany's counterespionage officer in charge of catching East German spies.
- And visitors get an earful of the KGB's counterespionage victories.
- The head of Sweden's secret service resigned Monday, a day before a report was to be submitted to the government on the counterespionage agency.
- Some also broke into the section for counterespionage activities, but did not succeed in discovering the identities of the section's workers, Winderlich said.
- He then moved into intelligence work, serving as a member of the counterintelligence and counterespionage organization in 1969-1970.