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Article: Espionage
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- Encyclopedia of Espionage, Intelligence, andSecurity
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Espionage
Espionage is the use of spies, or the practice of spying, for the purpose of obtaining information about the plans, activities, capabilities, or resources of a competitor or enemy. It is closely related to intelligence, but is often distinguished from it by virtue of the clandestine, aggressive, and dangerous nature of the espionage trade.
The term
espionage
comes from a French word meaning
to spy.
The Middle French
espionner
appears to be related to the Old Italian
spione,
which in turn is linguistically akin to the Old High German
spehon.
This is interesting philologically, since French, Italian, and German have very different historic roots: the first two derived from ...
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700+ words
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