counterintelligence | ||
1. | [ noun ] (military) 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 | |
Related terms: | intelligence censoring security_intelligence countersubversion counter-sabotage counterespionage | |
Similar spelling: |
counterinsurgency counterintuitive counterintuitively counterchallenge |