How to Use counterespionage in a Sentence

counterespionage

noun

• Strzok has served in the FBI for more than two decades, and eventually became the lead agent on the bureau’s counterespionage team.
  — Andrew Prokop, Vox, 13 Aug. 2018
• Yet it should be noted that leakers and counterespionage agents are nothing new.
  — Ron Grossman, chicagotribune.com, 15 May 2017
• As a result, the pace of play in the postseason sputtered as teams employed multi-sign sequences with the bases empty in acts of counterespionage.
  — Alex Speier, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Jan. 2020
• The vaunted G-men who had rocketed to fame as dauntless crimebusters now looked like the Keystone Cops of counterespionage.
  — Bertrand M. Patenaude, WSJ, 8 Oct. 2020
• Either way, the counterespionage measures have added time to games, with pitchers taking longer between pitches.
  — Dave Sheinin, courant.com, 13 Nov. 2019
• Deception often lies at the heart of espionage and counterespionage; success for both spies and spy hunters can hinge on finding a foolproof way to deceive their targets.
  — Yudhijit Bhattacharjee, New York Times, 7 Mar. 2023
• In Gibson’s 2021, dolphins excel at decryption; the Navy likes to shanghai them into service during times of war for use in counterespionage.
  — Jason Kehe, Wired, 11 Jan. 2021
• Nobody who has done counterespionage work would think this is a case that’s been prosecute – would be prosecuted, ever.
  — Margaret Hartmann, Daily Intelligencer, 16 Apr. 2018
• According to experts in the counterespionage field, those annual losses have since increased many times over.
  — John Whalen, WIRED, 1 Oct. 1995
• The official did not give his name but was identified as the director of the counterespionage department of Iran’s Intelligence Ministry.
  — Washington Post, 22 July 2019
• The counterterrorism center will be led by Pierre de Bousquet de Florian, former head of a French counterespionage agency.
  — Washington Post, 7 June 2017
• China’s Ministry of State Security, an intelligence and counterespionage agency that doesn’t have a spokesman or website, couldn’t be reached for comment.
  — Chun Han Wong, WSJ, 27 Dec. 2018
• China’s recent raids on American firms and the expansion of a counterespionage law are sending a chill through the foreign business community and ratcheting up the risks of operating in the country.
  — Ann Scott Tyson, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 May 2023
• The Iranian official did not give his name but was identified as the director of the counterespionage department of Iran's Intelligence Ministry.
  — Aya Batrawy, chicagotribune.com, 22 July 2019
• The Iranian official did not give his name but was identified as the director of the counterespionage department of Iran’s Intelligence Ministry.
  — Nasser Karimi, BostonGlobe.com, 22 July 2019
• Iran has made similar uncorroborated claims about its efforts in counterespionage this year, often in the wake of political clashes with the United States.
  — Ruby Mellen, Washington Post, 22 July 2019
• To fight Kaos, the counterespionage organization Control had the greatest technology, most unfathomable in the 1960s.
  — Andy Kessler, WSJ, 30 Jan. 2022
• Yet no successful counterespionage program can be mounted if the president denies Kremlin intervention in the elections.
  — Trudy Rubin, The Mercury News, 18 Apr. 2017
• The Senate report laid out how those fears fueled an aggressive, unauthorized counterespionage effort inside a department that houses scientific agencies staffed by researchers from around the world.
  — New York Times, 16 July 2021
• There are walls and labyrinths that separate counterintelligence and counterespionage from criminal law.
  — Isaac Chotiner, Slate Magazine, 25 July 2017
• The government introduced a new counterespionage law in 2014 that laid out demands for vigilance against foreign intelligence gathering.
  — Chris Buckley, New York Times, 28 Jan. 2016
• Operating with little oversight, the obscure unit opened cases ranging from counterespionage to background searches on US residents who wrote innocuous letters to the department’s top official, the review found.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 3 Sep. 2021
• Operating with little oversight, the obscure unit opened cases ranging from counterespionage to background searches on U.S. residents who wrote innocuous letters to the department’s top official, the review found.
  — Shawn Boburg, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Sep. 2021
• Before the trip, Flynn received a classified counterespionage briefing at D.I.A. headquarters.
  — Adam Davidson, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2017
• Haugen argued that Facebook understaffs a counterespionage team, which is overwhelmed by Chinese and other state actors who use the platform to track political opponents and spread disinformation.
  — Eamon Barrett, Fortune, 7 Oct. 2021
• And her role on Facebook’s civic integrity team, working on misinformation and counterespionage, uniquely positioned her to have insight into some of the company’s most significant challenges.
  — Washington Post, 11 Oct. 2021
• Jay Bratt, the prosecutor leading the department’s counterespionage work, advocated seeking a judge’s warrant for an unannounced search at the property to quickly recover any sensitive documents still there.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 1 Mar. 2023
• Businesses are also alarmed by China’s ever-tightening national security laws, which include a stringent counterespionage law that took effect on Saturday.
  — Ana Swanson, New York Times, 4 July 2023
• The Jiangsu television report said some companies in the fast growing industry have ignored national security risks and failed to fulfill their responsibilities and obligations of counterespionage.
  — Nectar Gan, CNN, 9 May 2023
• Haugen worked on Facebook’s Civic Integrity team, focusing on misinformation and counterespionage.
  — Washington Post, 22 Oct. 2021

Last Updated: 17 Jul 2024