How to Use counterintelligence in a Sentence

counterintelligence

noun
  • There were counterintelligence chiefs and there was a mole hunt and all these things, and it was sort of squeezed into a two and a half hour movie.
    CBS News, 30 Nov. 2022
  • Nathan Charles, who worked on the case with the D.O.J.’s counterintelligence unit, was less sanguine.
    The New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2022
  • None of that seemed to matter to the FBI’s counterintelligence agents.
    Jacob Silverman, The New Republic, 21 Sep. 2020
  • At least one of the agents was involved in counterintelligence, according to the person.
    Maggie Haberman, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Aug. 2022
  • He was awarded the Bronze Star for his time in the Army's counterintelligence unit developing informants that led to the Gestapo arrests.
    Caitlin Yilek, CBS News, 29 Nov. 2023
  • The need to protect these and later stealth projects spawned a new approach from some corners of the US counterintelligence community.
    Erik German, CNN, 18 Jan. 2023
  • The next day, Jay Bratt, head of the Justice Department’s counterintelligence division, arrived with a team of agents.
    Anchorage Daily News, 23 Aug. 2022
  • And there’s a kicker in Peter’s account, as there almost always is in the mirrored world of counterintelligence.
    Neal B. Freeman, National Review, 29 May 2024
  • He had been trained in counterintelligence operations, and was sent to Vietnam serving as a special field agent in some of the fiercest combat areas.
    Frederick N. Rasmussen, baltimoresun.com, 12 June 2018
  • My mother survived the surveillance of the FBI’s counterintelligence program as a civil rights activist in the 1960s.
    Malkia Devich-Cyril, The Atlantic, 5 July 2020
  • Asylum seekers in Texas were recruited for the flights by a woman who appeared to be a former Army counterintelligence agent.
    J. David Goodman, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2022
  • Officials said a new counterintelligence case against China is being opened every 12 hours, a 13-fold increase over a few years ago.
    Scott Nover, Quartz, 24 Oct. 2022
  • But Hoover died in 1972, Angleton was fired two years later, and counterintelligence fell into chaos.
    Tim Weiner, The New Republic, 27 Mar. 2023
  • Or think of counterintelligence specialists repositioning a satellite from the back of a surveillance van via a phone call.
    Richard Forno, Fortune, 12 May 2023
  • The country, which is not named in court papers, sat on the couple’s offer for months before forwarding it to U.S. counterintelligence officials.
    Salvador Rizzo, Washington Post, 27 Sep. 2022
  • The agent who spoke to me likened their counterintelligence operation to swimming upstream.
    Yudhijit Bhattacharjee, New York Times, 7 Mar. 2023
  • The criminal probe is the focus of his 448-page report—counterintelligence is hardly mentioned.
    Seth Hettena, The New Republic, 25 July 2019
  • We are told it is OK that the government opened a counterintelligence probe into a presidential campaign.
    Kimberley A. Strassel, WSJ, 5 July 2018
  • All of those field offices now have counterintelligence and cyber task forces largely focused on the threat from Chinese intelligence.
    Edward Wong, New York Times, 17 Sep. 2023
  • Our interests are not just about counterintelligence and spy versus spy.
    Caitlin Yilek, CBS News, 16 May 2023
  • Military officials said letting the Chinese spy balloon float across the country and out to sea gave them time to assess it for counterintelligence purposes.
    Katie Rogers, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2023
  • All of those field offices have counterintelligence and cyber task forces largely focused on the threat from Chinese intelligence.
    Edward Wong, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Sep. 2023
  • As a special agent in the OSI, Pitt was tasked with identifying, developing, and working sources in both criminal and counterintelligence fields.
    Bruce Tulgan, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2022
  • The bureau was watching the party as part of its counterintelligence program, Cointelpro.
    Jennie Rothenberg Gritz, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Aug. 2023
  • His assignment was to coordinate counterintelligence teams across the southern part of the country.
    Popular Mechanics, 25 Apr. 2023
  • Former counterintelligence agent Debra Evans Smith also left the bureau last year.
    Jeff Pegues, CBS News, 7 Oct. 2020
  • Why doesn't the president ask his director of National Intelligence, Dan Coats, to look into the counterintelligence side of this?
    Fox News, 3 June 2018
  • The bureau chief said that of the nearly 5,000 active FBI counterintelligence cases, almost half are China-related.
    Jerry Dunleavy, Washington Examiner, 7 July 2020
  • National security experts and even some former Trump staff have called the club a counterintelligence headache.
    Anchorage Daily News, 19 Dec. 2022
  • And just as important, the former assistant director for counterintelligence wants law enforcement agents to stop treating survivors of trafficking as criminals, and instead offer help and support.
    Liam Quinn, Peoplemag, 31 May 2024

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