counterintelligence

A distinguishing use case for open source intelligence is being able to counter lossy consciousness factors with open source counterintelligence.

The explanation is called protecting intelligence sources: Russia, China - or whoever had their spies inside NSA long before, can now act on the intelligence they got without triggering counterintelligence alarms.

Every country (that can) engages in both intelligence and counterintelligence.

> for intelligence and counterintelligence purposes and to support military operations This is meaningless without oversight.

What happened to him was unquestionably outrageous and a gross violation of his civil liberties - he was reported by an agent of the Army Counterintelligence Corps who was present(!!) and then charged and convicted.

Just to be clear, it wasn't the heads of the whole FBI and CIA; it was the heads of their counterintelligence divisions (or maybe their Soviet counterintelligence divisions - I don't know the org charts precisely), Aldrich Ames (CIA) and Robert Hanssen (FBI).

A gripe I have with the community at large is that the messaging focuses too much on terrorism and not enough on the other functions that are seeing successes everyday (counterintelligence etc...).

Your own link contradicts your definition: In the field of counterintelligence, a double agent (also double secret agent) is an employee of a secret intelligence service, whose primary purpose is to spy on a different target organization, but who, in fact, is a member of the target organization.

It's right there in the mission statement: >intelligence information from foreign signals for intelligence and counterintelligence purposes "Intelligence purposes" i.e.

NSA goes to great lengths to narrowly tailor and focus its signals intelligence operations on the collection of communications that are most likely to contain foreign intelligence or counterintelligence information.”"