Espionage and counter-espionage have greatly flourished during the war.
It was the certainty of retaliation which kept the actual war a cold one—a war of provocation and trickery and counter-espionage, but not of mutual extermination.
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In this perpetual conflict between espionage andcounter-espionageit is, of course, never possible to present a complete account to the public.
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I have never served in either thecounter-espionageor the secret services.
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It provided more leads forcounter-espionagework than any othercounter-espionageoperation.
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Spies are employed to go out and obtain information, and that makes the opponent set upcounter-espionageorganisations to catch them.
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If so, why are we spending so many millions on building up espionage andcounter-espionageservices of our own?
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In this case, as in every other case ofcounter-espionage, it is, of course, essential not to let the others know what you know.
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My point is that it is the breakdown ofcounter-espionagewhich constitutes the worry over this.
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It was not operated on by thecounter-espionageservice.
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I am sure that there is some need for a continuing specialised agency to deal withcounter-espionage.
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Now we are told that thecounter-espionageservices are catching quite a bag of spies.
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We cannot risk a divulging of the secrets either of espionage orcounter-espionage.
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We make criticisms of the low priority given tocounter-espionage.
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They are not engaged in espionage, industrial espionage orcounter-espionage.
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There have been about four directors of thecounter-espionagebranch in the past 10 years.
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They were really furious when thecounter-espionagediscredited the reports—furious because it implied that their town did not deserve a spy.
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