How to Use counterintelligence in a Sentence

counterintelligence

noun
  • The whole counterintelligence world was not something he was drawn to.
    Esther Zuckerman, GQ, 28 Mar. 2018
  • 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
  • At least one of the agents was involved in counterintelligence, according to the person.
    Maggie Haberman, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Aug. 2022
  • None of that seemed to matter to the FBI’s counterintelligence agents.
    Jacob Silverman, The New Republic, 21 Sep. 2020
  • And counterintelligence agencies are better equipped to detect the origins of any threat to the German election.
    The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Sep. 2017
  • 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 fact that many of those fired handled counterintelligence cases was first reported by the New York Sun.
    Sarah N. Lynch, CBS News, 3 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • So a lot of the counterintelligence training that's given to the troops, the officers, the defense contractors, a lot of it is kind of like, don't be naive, don't be a dolt, in short.
    Dana Taylor, USA Today, 26 Feb. 2026
  • Saccone served as a counterintelligence officer in the Air Force.
    Washington Post, 14 Mar. 2018
  • 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
  • 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
  • If and when American bombs start to fall, Venezuela’s military counterintelligence system will certainly be put to the test.
    Quico Toro, The Atlantic, 4 Nov. 2025
  • One worker joined the FBI and made a career in counterintelligence, sniffing out Chinese spies.
    Hanna Rosin, The Atlantic, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Many of the agents who were terminated were assigned to a squad that worked on global counterintelligence cases, including those involving Iran.
    Sarah N. Lynch, CBS News, 3 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • The agents would be reassigned from counterintelligence and public corruption divisions to overnight patrol shifts alongside city police.
    Robert Birsel, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Aug. 2025
  • But Hoover died in 1972, Angleton was fired two years later, and counterintelligence fell into chaos.
    Tim Weiner, The New Republic, 27 Mar. 2023
  • And in an era of rampant counterintelligence programs conducted on anti-war and hippie movements, where did the FBI fit into all this?
    Elisabeth Garber-Paul, Rolling Stone, 10 Mar. 2025
  • Part of the reason people doubt Peter is because his father also worked for the FBI and was section chief of counterintelligence.
    Proma Khosla, IndieWire, 21 Jan. 2025
  • Those concerns came as part of a widening counterintelligence investigation.
    Zach Lachance, The Washington Examiner, 29 Mar. 2026
  • The book tells the true story of a Japanese spy and the Navy counterintelligence agent determined to stop him in the tense lead-up to the attack on Pearl Harbor.
    Stephanie Nolasco, FOXNews.com, 9 May 2026
  • 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 next day, Jay Bratt, head of the Justice Department’s counterintelligence division, arrived with a team of agents.
    Anchorage Daily News, 23 Aug. 2022
  • The series will track the pair as they are pulled between allegiance to their homeland, their sense of self and their bonds as a family, while a relentless Korean counterintelligence agent edges closer to exposing them.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 25 Mar. 2026
  • The reassignments have sparked internal frustration, as agents from counterintelligence and public corruption units are diverted from their core investigative roles.
    Amanda Castro hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Aug. 2025
  • By the time of the Assads’ encounter at the Sandbar, however, that focus was expanding decisively to include counterintelligence.
    Adam Ciralsky, Vanity Fair, 19 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • Qrypt had been negotiating its first large contract, with the Pentagon, until a counterintelligence official called about Broidy’s allegations.
    David D. Kirkpatrick, New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Daly was an investigator and counterintelligence operative for the federal law enforcement agency.
    Peter D'abrosca, FOXNews.com, 1 Apr. 2026

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