Counterintelligence

Definition: Counterintelligence

Counterintelligence

Noun

1. Intelligence activities concerned with identifying and counteracting the threat to security posed by hostile intelligence organizations or by individuals engaged in espionage or sabotage or subversion or terrorism.

Domain	Definition
Military	Those activities which are concerned with identifying and counteracting the threat to security posed by hostile intelligence services or organizations, or by individuals engaged in espionage, sabotage, subversion or terrorism. See also counterespionage; countersabotage; countersubversion; counterterrorism; protective security; security; security intelligence. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonym: Counterintelligence

Synonym: Counterespionage. (additional references)

Crosswords: Counterintelligence

English words defined with "counterintelligence": censoring, censorship, Central Intelligence Agency, CIA, counter-sabotage, countersubversion ♦ security review. (references)

Specialty definitions using "counterintelligence": counter-espionage, COUNTERINTELLIGENCE AGENT. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	21st Century U.S. Army Counterintelligence Field Manual (reference) Chasing Spies: How the FBI Failed in Counterintelligence but Promoted the Politics of McCarthyism in the Cold War Years (reference) Dirty Tricks or Trump Cards: U.S. Covert Action & Counterintelligence (reference) Intelligence Requirements for the 1980's: Counterintelligence (reference) Law Enforcement Counterintelligence (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Vol. 8-FBI Counterintelligence (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Counterintelligence [IMPORT] (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Civil Liberties	Slovak Republic	In February 1999, police arrested two former high officials in the SIS, former Chief of the SIS Counterintelligence Unit Jaroslav Svechota and Deputy Director of the Surveillance Unit Robert Beno, for involvement in the 1995 effort to discredit the chairman of the Slovak Bishops Conference. (references)
Human Rights	Macedonia	Two days after the beating, the Ministry of Interior's Office of Professional Responsibility, acting on orders from then-Interior Minister Dosta Dimovska, suspended five officers of the Security and Counterintelligence Agency, including Ljupco Andonovski, the agency's chief officer in Skopje. (references)
Political Economy	Kazakhstan	The Committee for National Security (KNB) is responsible for national security, intelligence, and counterintelligence. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Speaker	Phrase(s)
Fred Thompson	I don't know, Bob, but I'll tell you this. I am very concerned about our intelligence community. Our counterintelligence capabilities, our counterterrorism capabilities are not what they should be. There needs to be major reform in the CIA and the FBI.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Counterintelligence" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Counterintelligence" is used about 15 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	15	90,616

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "counterintelligence"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		kundërzbulim. (various references)

Bulgarian		контрашпионаж (counterespionage). (various references)

Chinese		反间谍. (various references)

Czech		kontrarozvìdka, kontrašpionáž (counter espionage). (various references)

Farsi		سازمان ضدجاسوسی . (various references)

Italian		controspionaggio (counterespionage). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		防諜 (counterespionage), 反�" . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ぼうちょう (attendance, auditing, counterespionage, expansion, growth, hearing, increase, listening, protection against the tide, swelling), は�"か�" (animosity, antipathy, complexity and simplicity, press and slack of business, revolt). (various references)

Korean		방첩. (various references)

Pig Latin		ounterintelligencecay

Portuguese		contraespionagem (counterespionage). (various references)

Russian		контрразведка (counterespionage, counter-espionage, counter-intelligence). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		kontraobaveštajna služba, kontršpijunaža. (various references)

Spanish		contrainteligencia. (various references)

Swedish		säkerhetstjänst, kontraspionage (counterespionage). (various references)

Turkish		karşı casusluk (counterespionage). (various references)

Ukrainian		контррозвідка (counterespionage). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "counterintelligence": counterintelligences. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Counterintelligence" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: counterintelegence. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "counterintelligence" (pronounced kou'nteri'nte"lijuns or kou'neri'nte"lijuns)
4	-j u n s	allegiance, convergence, diligence, divergence, emergence, indulgence, intelligence, intransigence, negligence, reemergence, resurgence, submergence, vengeance.
3	-u n s	abeyance, abhorrence, absence, abstinence, abundance, acceptance, accordance, acquaintance, acquiescence, adherence, admirations, admittance, adolescence, affluence, alliance, allowance, ambiance, ambience, ambivalence, ambulance, annoyance, appearance, appliance, arrogance, ascendance, assistance, assurance, attendance, audience, avoidance, balance, belligerence, beneficence, benevolence, bioscience, brilliance, cadence, capacitance, chrominance, circumference, clairvoyance, Clarence, clearance, coexistence, cognizance, coherence, coincidence, coinsurance, comeuppance, competence, compliance, concurrence, condolence, conference, confidence, confluence, conformance, congruence, connivance, conscience, consequence, consistence, continuance, contrivance, convalescence, convenience, conveyance, correspondence, countenance, counterbalance, credence, dalliance, decadence, Defeasance, deference, defiance, deliverance, dependence, deterrence, deviance, difference, disallowance, disappearance, discontinuance, disobedience, dissidence, dissonance, distance, disturbance, dominance, ebullience, elegance, eloquence, eminence, endurance, entrance, equivalence, essence, evanescence, evidence, excellence, existence, expedience, experience, extravagance, exuberance, flamboyance, Florence, forbearance, fragrance, furtherance, governance, grievance, guidance, hindrance, ignorance, imbalance, immanence, imminence, impatience, impedance, importance, impotence, imprudence, inadvertence, incidence, incoherence, incompetence, incontinence, inconvenience, independence, indifference, inductance, inexperience, inference, influence, inheritance, innocence, insignificance, insistence, insolence, instance, insurance, interdependence, interference, intolerance, invariance, irrelevance, irreverence, issuance, jurisprudence, licence, license, luminance, luminescence, maintenance, malfeasance, neuroscience, noncompliance, noninterference, nonviolence, nuisance, obedience, observance, obsolescence, occurrence, omnipotence, omnipresence, opulence, ordinance, Ordnance, overabundance, overconfidence, overdependence, overreliance, parlance, patience, penance, performance, permanence, persecutions, perseverance, persistence, pestilence, petulance, phosphorescence, pittance, precedence, predominance, preeminence, preference, preponderance, prescience, presence, prevalence, prominence, protuberance, provenance, Providence, province, prudence, pseudoscience, quintessence, radiance, reappearance, reassurance, recalcitrance, recognizance, reconnaissance, recurrence, reference, reinspections, reinsurance, relevance, reliance, reluctance, remembrance, reminiscence, remittance, repentance, resemblance, residence, resilience, resistance, resonance, reticence, reverence, riddance, science, semblance, senescence, sentence, sequence, severance, significance, silence, subservience, subsidence, subsistence, substance, surveillance, sustenance, teleconference, temperance, tolerance, transcendence, transference, transience, turbulence, unbalance, utterance, Valence, variance, vehemence, videoconference, vigilance, violence, virulence.
4	-j u n s	allegiance, convergence, diligence, divergence, emergence, indulgence, intelligence, intransigence, negligence, reemergence, resurgence, submergence, vengeance.
3	-u n s	abeyance, abhorrence, absence, abstinence, abundance, acceptance, accordance, acquaintance, acquiescence, adherence, admirations, admittance, adolescence, affluence, alliance, allowance, ambiance, ambience, ambivalence, ambulance, annoyance, appearance, appliance, arrogance, ascendance, assistance, assurance, attendance, audience, avoidance, balance, belligerence, beneficence, benevolence, bioscience, brilliance, cadence, capacitance, chrominance, circumference, clairvoyance, Clarence, clearance, coexistence, cognizance, coherence, coincidence, coinsurance, comeuppance, competence, compliance, concurrence, condolence, conference, confidence, confluence, conformance, congruence, connivance, conscience, consequence, consistence, continuance, contrivance, convalescence, convenience, conveyance, correspondence, countenance, counterbalance, credence, dalliance, decadence, Defeasance, deference, defiance, deliverance, dependence, deterrence, deviance, difference, disallowance, disappearance, discontinuance, disobedience, dissidence, dissonance, distance, disturbance, dominance, ebullience, elegance, eloquence, eminence, endurance, entrance, equivalence, essence, evanescence, evidence, excellence, existence, expedience, experience, extravagance, exuberance, flamboyance, Florence, forbearance, fragrance, furtherance, governance, grievance, guidance, hindrance, ignorance, imbalance, immanence, imminence, impatience, impedance, importance, impotence, imprudence, inadvertence, incidence, incoherence, incompetence, incontinence, inconvenience, independence, indifference, inductance, inexperience, inference, influence, inheritance, innocence, insignificance, insistence, insolence, instance, insurance, interdependence, interference, intolerance, invariance, irrelevance, irreverence, issuance, jurisprudence, licence, license, luminance, luminescence, maintenance, malfeasance, neuroscience, noncompliance, noninterference, nonviolence, nuisance, obedience, observance, obsolescence, occurrence, omnipotence, omnipresence, opulence, ordinance, Ordnance, overabundance, overconfidence, overdependence, overreliance, parlance, patience, penance, performance, permanence, persecutions, perseverance, persistence, pestilence, petulance, phosphorescence, pittance, precedence, predominance, preeminence, preference, preponderance, prescience, presence, prevalence, prominence, protuberance, provenance, Providence, province, prudence, pseudoscience, quintessence, radiance, reappearance, reassurance, recalcitrance, recognizance, reconnaissance, recurrence, reference, reinspections, reinsurance, relevance, reliance, reluctance, remembrance, reminiscence, remittance, repentance, resemblance, residence, resilience, resistance, resonance, reticence, reverence, riddance, science, semblance, senescence, sentence, sequence, severance, significance, silence, subservience, subsidence, subsistence, substance, surveillance, sustenance, teleconference, temperance, tolerance, transcendence, transference, transience, turbulence, unbalance, utterance, Valence, variance, vehemence, videoconference, vigilance, violence, virulence.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-c-e-e-e-e-g-i-i-l-l-n-n-n-o-r-t-t-u"
	-5 letters: electioneering, internucleonic.
	Words containing the letters "c-c-e-e-e-e-g-i-i-l-l-n-n-n-o-r-t-t-u"
	+1 letter: counterintelligences.
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Expression	Frequency per Day
counterintelligence	50
army counterintelligence	6
activity counterintelligence field	6
counterintelligence elicitation	6
corps counterintelligence marine	4
counterintelligence training	3
counterintelligence job	3
army cic corps counterintelligence	3
british counterintelligence mi5	3
agent counterintelligence	3
counterintelligence definition	3
counterintelligence intelligence international journal	3
counterintelligence mohaa	3
counterintelligence in job	2
awareness counterintelligence	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Counterintelligence

Definition: Counterintelligence