Sentence examples for counterspy from inspiring English sources

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counterspy

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A spy working in counterintelligence.

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Todd Morris, founder and chief executive of BrickHouse Security, a surveillance and counterspy company, said some limited technologies existed today to help protect people from being recorded.

CounterSpy (£3.05) The latest game from PlayStation Mobile – yes, that PlayStation – CounterSpy is a mobile spin-off from the PS4, PS3 and PS Vita game of the same name: a sneaky side-scrolling action game with impressive graphics.

If so, the first thing our war on terror needs is an Angleton-type counterspy.

After Felt's conviction and subsequent pardon by President Ronald Reagan in 1981, O'Connor says, Felt prepared a manuscript in which he "recounted happier times as a counterspy and crime-busting G-man (including stories that had been left out of his published book)." In this vaguely described later material, O'Connor writes, Felt "edged closer to his Deep Throat identity".

Information about America's spy operations and its counterspy activities must be carefully compartmentalized so that even senior F.B.I. agents like Mr. Hanssen cannot rummage through all active files.

She was a foreign agent in David Harding, Counterspy (1950), and was effective as a snooty society lady in the musical The Petty Girl (1950).

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At the same time, the exploits of spies and counterspies became a staple of the entertainment and publishing industries.

As is customary, city life itself is camouflage for spies and their counterspies.

One downtown building served as a revolutionary headquarters, while counterspies kept an office down the street.

As Rimington once wrote: "I have heard it said that women make particularly good intelligence officers, both spies and counterspies … because they are discreet … psychologically tough, and better than men at keeping their own counsel.

There are no jihads or terrorists in sight and no apocalyptic scenarios, only dirty little secrets, as spies and counterspies from Russia and the United States tangle in a grubby story involving oil, sold secrets, murders and coverups.

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