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Article: Counter-Intelligence
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- Encyclopedia of Espionage, Intelligence, andSecurity
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Counter-Intelligence
Counter-intelligence is the use of intelligence resources to identify, circumvent, and neutralize the intelligence activities of a foreign power. That foreign power may be an enemy nation or a putative ally. In the United States, counter-intelligence is overseen from the Counter-intelligence Center (CIC) of the Central Intelligence Agency
(CIA), although a number of intelligence and law enforcement agencies are concerned with counter-intelligence to some degree.
Not only has the United States faced spying by Soviet and Eastern Bloc, Chinese, and Cuban operatives, but also by semi-friendly nations such as France or Indonesia, and by outright allies such as ...