

Its duties are both those of espionage outside France and counter-espionage within, though each service may overlap the other's territory on occasion.Īs the request made by our official counter-espionage service to the competent German security organisations has been refused, and these organisations now expect our agents to be on the heels of Argoud and other OAS leaders, the operation must, in so far as it is directed against the person of Argoud, be carried out with maximum speed and discretion. The natural areas in which one could find them were bodyguard work, asset protection, industrial counter-espionage, and security consultancy.Īrgentina was regarded as having fairly efficient counter-espionage capabilities, so the debriefing meetings took place in Rio de Janeiro and GELATO was paid a couple of thousand pounds per meeting into a secret account in Luxembourg. They're hardly out of kindergarten and haven't lived enough or been steeped enough in sin to make apprentice counter-espionage agents, junior grade. You know that this counter-espionage and rescue mission was only a cover for the real thing?

His identity was also known to the chiefs of espionage and counter-espionage - it had to be. I'm a counter-espionage agent and humanitarian principles don't matter a damn to me. I'd get no Oscars for counter-espionage but as an arsonist I was neck and neck with the best. Furthermore, CEEOL allows publishers to reach new audiences and promote the scientific achievements of the Eastern European scientific community to a broader readership.An espionage agent, counter-espionage - damned things mean the same to me. CEEOL offers various services to subscribing institutions and their patrons to make access to its content as easy as possible. Currently, CEEOL covers more than 2000 journals and 690.000 articles, over 4500 ebooks and 6000 grey literature document. CEEOL provides scholars, researchers and students with access to a wide range of academic content in a constantly growing, dynamic repository. Currently, over 1000 publishers entrust CEEOL with their high-quality journals and e-books. In the rapidly changing digital sphere CEEOL is a reliable source of adjusting expertise trusted by scholars, publishers and librarians. 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. and defining counter-intelligence have worked, or currently work within the US. Thus, lastly, I argue – by exploring contemporary developments in security services – that activities from these state bureaucracies are best defined by a return to ‘counterespionage’ and a move away from ‘counter-intelligence’.ĬEEOL is a leading provider of academic e-journals and e-books in the Humanities and Social Sciences from and about Central and Eastern Europe. on counter-intelligence theory and practice, and interrogating this. This US intelligence practitioner emphasis in the literature not only undermines the integrity of the concept as it results in mono-cultural understanding but, more profoundly, it has sanitised our understanding of the concept. Espionage is the process of obtaining information that is not normally publicly available, using human sources (agents) or technical means (like hacking into computer systems). Second, the article demonstrates that the overwhelming majority of scholars who have engaged in setting the boundaries and defining counter-intelligence have worked, or currently work within the US intelligence community. First, I argue that previous authors have all attempted to locate the essence of ‘counter-intelligence’ in its activities and not in its goal. By carefully assessing current workson counter-intelligence theory and practice, and interrogating this theorising, I findthree flaws that are necessarily in need of being addressed. It maintains that in terms of engagement with the concept, current theory lagsfar behind our understanding of intelligence – which itself has frequently been accusedof being ‘under-theorised’ in definitional debates. Summary/Abstract: This paper argues that our theorising of ‘counter-intelligence’ leaves much to bedesired. Published by: National Institute for Intelligence Studies Keywords: Counter-intelligence counterespionage intelligence theory intelligence studies philosophy of language Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Security and defense CALLING A SPADE, A SPADE: A RETURN TO ‘COUNTERESPIONAGE’ FROM ‘COUNTER-INTELLIGENCE’ĬALLING A SPADE, A SPADE: A RETURN TO ‘COUNTERESPIONAGE’ FROM ‘COUNTER-INTELLIGENCE’ Author(s): Jules J.S.
