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Recent Examples of counterintelligence
Buma focused on counterintelligence and counterproliferation matters.
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Scott MacFarlane, CBS News, 20 Mar. 2025
Schumer's bill, the Operational Security (OPSEC) Act of 2025, would establish a new office to train administration officials in security protocols and to identify counterintelligence operations.
—Stephen Neukam, Axios, 2 Apr. 2025
And in an era of rampant counterintelligence programs conducted on anti-war and hippie movements, where did the FBI fit into all this?
—Elisabeth Garber-Paul, Rolling Stone, 10 Mar. 2025
Experts say this is a potentially serious counterintelligence problem that could allow foreign intelligence services to gain insight into a target’s social network or even identify individuals who could be paid or coerced to act against them.
—Dhruv Mehrotra, Wired News, 27 Mar. 2025
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Scott MacFarlane, CBS News, 20 Mar. 2025
Schumer's bill, the Operational Security (OPSEC) Act of 2025, would establish a new office to train administration officials in security protocols and to identify counterintelligence operations.
—Stephen Neukam, Axios, 2 Apr. 2025
And in an era of rampant counterintelligence programs conducted on anti-war and hippie movements, where did the FBI fit into all this?
—Elisabeth Garber-Paul, Rolling Stone, 10 Mar. 2025
Experts say this is a potentially serious counterintelligence problem that could allow foreign intelligence services to gain insight into a target’s social network or even identify individuals who could be paid or coerced to act against them.
—Dhruv Mehrotra, Wired News, 27 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for counterintelligence
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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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After the 9/11 attacks and the rise of Islamist terrorism, ASIO ran down its counterespionage capabilities in favor of counterterrorism.—
Clive Hamilton,
Foreign Affairs,
26 July 2018
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But his espionage comedy The Phoenician Scheme, playing in competition here at the Cannes Film Festival, shows glimmers of something that might be called anger, or at least frustration, over the greed and immorality of people who have too much—and yet only want more.—
Stephanie Zacharek,
Time,
19 May 2025
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The espionage comedy flaunts an excellent Benecio del Toro as Zsa-zsa Korda, a serpentine 1950s industrialist, who, after surviving another assassination attempt on his life, begins to consider his legacy.—
Lovia Gyarkye,
HollywoodReporter,
18 May 2025
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According to a new assessment from no fewer than 11 countries’ intelligence agencies, the hacker group has been targeting a broad array of technology and logistics firms involved in providing aid to Ukraine.—
Andy Greenberg,
Wired News,
24 May 2025
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The group is a terrorist organization made up of operatives, spies and intelligence officials from agencies around the world who want to create a new world order.—
Keith Langston,
People.com,
24 May 2025
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“Counterintelligence.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/counterintelligence. Accessed 1 Jun. 2025.
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