contrainteligencia

Definitions of contrainteligencia
  1. noun
    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
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    contraespionaje
    spying on the spies
    inteligencia de seguridad
    intelligence on the identity and capability and intentions of hostile individuals or organizations that may be engaged in espionage or sabotage or subversion or terrorism
    censura
    counterintelligence achieved by banning or deleting any information of value to the enemy
    contrasubversión
    the aspect of counterintelligence designed to detect and prevent subversive activities
    contrasabotaje
    counterintelligence designed to detect and counteract sabotage
    censura militar
    all types of censorship conducted by personnel of the armed forces
    censura nacional
    censorship under civil authority of communications entering or leaving of crossing the borders of the United States or its territories or possessions
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    operación de inteligencia
    the operation of gathering information about an enemy
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