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
• Flynn interrupted the briefer and tried to correct him; Trump asked whether China or Russia posed a greater counterintelligence threat.
  — New York Times, 15 Jan. 2017
• The whole counterintelligence world was not something he was drawn to.
  — Esther Zuckerman, GQ, 28 Mar. 2018
• 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
• And counterintelligence agencies are better equipped to detect the origins of any threat to the German election.
  — The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Sep. 2017
• But the trip was one of the triggers of a counterintelligence investigation begun by the F.B.I. later that month.
  — Mark Mazzetti and Adam Goldman, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2017
• 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
• Saccone served as a counterintelligence officer in the Air Force.
  — Washington Post, 14 Mar. 2018
• 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
• The two were found to be having an affair; Strzok, a senior counterintelligence official, was reassigned from the Mueller probe after the discovery of the text messages between them.
  — Jamie Dupree, AJC.com, 23 Jan. 2018
• The official said the FBI is interested in who was at the event and what was said, in the context of the counterintelligence investigation into Russian election meddling.
  — Ken Dilanian, NBC News, 13 June 2017
• It was opened in the ordinary course in our counterintelligence division.
  — Time Staff, Time, 17 Apr. 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
• His assassination is only the latest embarrassing counterintelligence failure by Iran at the hands of Israel’s Mossad spy agency.
  — Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 July 2024
• 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

Last Updated: 28 Nov 2024