They started this counter intelligence investigation with no evidence of.
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Protected by Cuban counter-intelligence agents, Venezuela's government pounces on dissent.
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There was already pending a counter-intelligence investigation under President Obama.
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Hoover reigned over the FBI's infamous COINTELPRO, short for Counter Intelligence Program.
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Members of our office periodically briefed the FBI about counter-intelligence information.
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In Russia we conduct counter-intelligence activity against those suspected of espionage.
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The ministry is responsible for counter-intelligence, foreign intelligence and national security.
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British counter-intelligence was far more effective than the counterpart efforts in America.
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The academy teaches students foreign languages, counter-intelligence and investigative skills, and cryptography.
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So he&aposs the head of counter intelligence, Peter Strzok was number two.
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You don&apost start a counter-intelligence investigation against an American Presidential candidate.
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Trump attacks American intelligence and counter-intelligence officers who work to defeat them.
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You could have put it in Washington Field Office, could have put it in New York but the decision that Counter Intelligence made was it&aposll be kept tighter and leak proof which it was in the Counter Intelligence Division.
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He is a guy who was the assistant director of the FBI counter-intelligence.
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Akhmetshin openly described his years as a military counter-intelligence officer, serving in Afghanistan.
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There was no evidence of crimes or intelligence to justify a counter intelligence probe.
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One section of the film is dedicated to US counter-intelligence efforts to manipulate ufologists.
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They launched this massive counter-intelligence investigation based off of Papadopoulos saying something to Downer.
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I would also envision an uptick in counter-intelligence efforts focusing on staff and employees.
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After all, the main goal of counter-intelligence work is not spectacular prosecutions and convictions.
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The next year he served in the Army's Counter Intelligence Corps, assigned to the Pentagon.
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The FBI who was in charge of counter intelligence investigations should look at people like that.
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He should never has recused himself, he didn&apost need to on a counter intelligence operation.
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A hostile foreign government, counter-intelligence officials say, could adapt technology at the point of manufacture.
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The Interior Ministry oversees the police, the state security apparatus and counter-intelligence, among other duties.
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What happened from there is American intelligence, counter- intelligence and law enforcement trying to stop them.
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It is also expected to include $307 million for FBI counter-intelligence efforts against Russian cyberattacks.
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This is the guy that six days earlier opens up a counter intelligence investigation against Trumps campaign.
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Late July 2016 - The FBI begins a counter-intelligence investigation of Russian meddling in the election. Aug.
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Was it, perhaps, that FBI counter-intelligence officials genuinely believed Flynn had been compromised by the Russians?
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One, the FBIs most senior counter intelligence agents visited London in the first week of May 2016.
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The subscription business model allows companies to run CounterCraft's so-called "counter-intelligence campaigns" internally and externally.
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He&aposs the only person in America who opened up a counter intelligence investigation against Trump&aposs campaign.
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First reported by Reuters, the allegations are being made by William Evanina, the head of U.S. counter-intelligence.
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The FBI launched a counter-intelligence investigation in July 2016 into contacts between Trump campaign associates and Russia.
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The aid DHS provides involves more coordination than fingers-on-keyboards help from hackers or counter-intelligence professionals.
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But in recent days official newspapers have been crowing about a reported victory for China's counter-intelligence efforts.
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I had a caller on my radio program tonight and he said, he used to work counter intelligence.
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"The FBI is our counter-intelligence agency — domestically in the United States," he told the Washington Examiner Wednesday.
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Vindman said that he basically brushed it off, but informed his chain of command and counter intelligence officials.
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His reviews were compiled into a book, "Counter Intelligence: Where to Eat in the Real Los Angeles," in 2000.
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His administration is also investigating the origin of the counter intelligence operation into Russian interference during the 2016 election.
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Foreign counter-intelligence services have long been worried about a growing overlap between Russian spy agencies and organised crime.
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The FBI learned the information about Papadopoulos in late July and opened a counter intelligence investigation at that point.
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John McCain passed material compiled "by a former western counter-intelligence official" to FBI director James Comey in December.
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That, no doubt, is why the special counsel regulations do not authorize an appointment in a counter-intelligence case.
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But this sting operation resembled something more like an amateur public relations exercise than a serious counter-intelligence operation.
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Right now, the investigation into the Russian meddling is a "counter-intelligence investigation, not a criminal investigation," he said.
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We have degraded our counter intelligence operations and left a group of negotiators in the diplomatic circles in charge.
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Western counter-intelligence agencies have been sounding warnings about them for just as long—if more quietly than today.
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U.S. companies hit by recent attacks included Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co and International Business Machines Corp The National Counter-Intelligence and Security Center, which coordinates counter-intelligence efforts within the U.S. government, launched the outreach campaign to address persistent concerns that many companies are not doing enough to guard against cyber theft.
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And to use that to conduct counter intelligence against an American political campaign is a strange -- would be strange development.
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COUNTER INTELLIGENCE Bergdorf Goodman isn't far from my apartment, so I'll window shop on Madison Avenue and end up there.
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So let me say a word about how we handled the potential impact of our investigation on counter-intelligence matters.
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Efforts by Chinese intelligence to build influence in Czech political circles have raised eyebrows in the Czech counter-intelligence service.
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It is important to understand that FBI counter-intelligence investigations are different than the more-commonly known criminal investigative work.
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Can you tell us a bit about how Huawei approaches operational security and how much you spend on counter intelligence?
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It is important to understand that FBI counter-intelligence investigations are different than the more-commonly known criminal investigative work.
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Actually they&aposre not part of the counter intelligence division-- INGRAHAM: Which they were trying to pass them off as, correct?
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CNN Intelligence Analyst Phil Mudd, who worked in counter-intelligence for the CIA, warned that Trump risked badly damaging his credibility.
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The GRU's main role is military intelligence, according to the ECFR, while its secondary roles include political, economic and counter intelligence.
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And yes, the Justice Department is investigating the roots of the counter-intelligence investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election.
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They never could have opened a criminal investigation based on that and so instead they used the excuse of counter-intelligence.
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The President's actions also risk undermining the ongoing criminal and counter-intelligence investigations and the independence of federal law enforcement agencies.
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"This was an impressive strategy that played out," Frank Figliuzzi, former assistant director of the FBI's counter intelligence division, told CNN.
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The armed forces and Sapo counter-intelligence agency had also been assigned increased duties related to the election in September 2018.
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On Monday, he thanked the FSB for what he said was its successful counter-intelligence work in keeping the arms projects secret.
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And in fact, it&aposs before that, then we have got a counter-intelligence at the level of a third world country.
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A counter-intelligence force would be formed to catch rogue officers and records of those previously implicated in crimes would be reviewed.
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Yet this is subject to a continuing counter-intelligence investigation, and therefore most likely to be kept under wraps by Mr Barr.
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He's opposed to an "open-ended commitment" in Syria, but supports maintaining a "very limited" counter-intelligence and special operations presence there.
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The New York Times and the Washington Post identified the investigator as FBI agent Peter Strzok, the deputy head of FBI counter-intelligence.
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But Mr Trump's fondness for Russia really is unusual, and he entered office under a counter-intelligence investigation for his links with Russia.
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Another CV describes an individual who worked at Huawei but was a representative of a government entity responsible for espionage and counter intelligence.
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"[W]e're not excluding the possibility of investigating anything related to Russian intelligence and counter-intelligence activities," a spokesman said in an email.
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Less than an hour after Dobbs' show wrapped, Trump sent his tweet claiming the FBI's counter-intelligence campaign dated back to December 2015.
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Many of the black community's most radical leaders were either assassinated or their organizations destroyed by the FBI's counter-intelligence program, he says.
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In 5000, the New York Times broke the story of a secretive government UFO program run by Pentagon counter-intelligence staffer Luis Elizondo.
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But the confluence of these two tasks—a counter-intelligence operation that has dragged in the denizens of the White House itself—is unprecedented.
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We... NUNES: Very, very concerning, not a way to run a counter-intelligence system in the united states or any country, for that matter.
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I understand that this Committee has a unique jurisdiction, and that you are interested in further understanding the counter-intelligence implications of our investigation.
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There are more than 200 entries in "Counter Intelligence" — a fraction of the reviews he would eventually generate, but enough to dizzy the mind.
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"We've got a very, very, very good counter-intelligence apparatus," said Robert Litt, a former general counsel for the U.S. Director of National Intelligence.
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He might also exercise his right to avoid self-incrimination given the current criminal and counter-intelligence investigation into his business dealings in Ukraine.
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Regardless, it's clear that top officials used unverified information in a court document to fuel a counter-intelligence investigation during an American political campaign.
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There would be a process that would allow counter-intelligence work to proceed legally – if it could be established that the concerns were valid.
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William Evanina, the U.S. counter-intelligence chief, told Reuters in an interview that intelligence and law enforcement officials have told LinkedIn, owned by Microsoft Corp.
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And the guidelines are very specific particularly to counter intelligence investigations and even more particularly when you are directing your source towards an American citizen.
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They insist the dossier is the reason the FBI began a counter-intelligence probe, which led to the Mueller special counsel in the first place.
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So people went to vote on November 8th having no idea that there was an active counter-intelligence investigation going on of the Trump campaign.
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Russia's foreign ministry and its counter-intelligence service, the Federal Security Service (FSB), did not immediately respond to questions submitted by Reuters about the case.
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He was sacked last year after, he claims credibly, denying Mr Trump's request to back-pedal a counter-intelligence investigation into the president's campaign team.
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For these reasons, questions about what the FBI has done with the counter-intelligence information obtained from our investigation should be directed to the FBI.
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But we have to be sensitive that there is an ongoing FBI counter-intelligence investigation and there are classified aspects that could be asked about.
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Deibert's idea when he launched Citizen Lab was to make it some sort of "counter-intelligence," or the CSI for civil society on the internet.
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In response to questioning from both Democrats and Republicans, Mueller repeatedly declined to discuss the origins of the counter-intelligence investigation or the Steele dossier.
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"We see counter-intelligence as a necessary stance in cyber security independent of the technology that supports it," adds co-founder and CMO Dan Brett.
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In Venezuela, U.S. journalists were arrested and detained by the country's military counter-intelligence agency earlier this year at the command of President Nicolás Maduro.
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That Huawei&aposs CEO Ren Zhengfei is a former member of Chinese counter-intelligence (Ren was formerly an engineer in the People&aposs Liberation Army).
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In 2015, Ma Jian, then counter-intelligence chief at the ministry, was put under investigation for corruption and expelled from the party the following year.
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And the guidelines are very specific to particularly in counter intelligence investigations and even more particularly when you are directing your source towards an American citizen.
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The bungled raid on the OPCW took place in April, when Dutch counter-intelligence, tipped off by British counterparts, detained and expelled the four GRU men.
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It kept stringent limitations in place, requiring the FBI to certify the records sought related to counter-intelligence investigations of a foreign power or its agents.
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Wow, Strzok-Page, the incompetent & corrupt FBI lovers, have texts referring to a counter-intelligence operation into the Trump Campaign dating way back to December, 85033.
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One intelligence source told Insider that modern counter-intelligence methods almost guarantee that most attempts to give operatives a fake ID will now be found out.
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"Regardless, it's clear that top officials used unverified information in a court document to fuel a counter-intelligence investigation during an American political campaign," he added.
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At a national level, the FBI had for years been tapping its Counter Intelligence Program, or COINTELPRO, to disrupt domestic political organizations it deemed too radical.
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"That the Republican and Democrat nominee for President received a standardized briefing on counter-intelligence is hardly a news story," White House spokesman Raj Shah told NBC.
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Rapiz sold 50,000 pesos ($940) worth of methamphetamine to undercover police in Dipolog on Monday night, said Romeo Caramat, head of the police counter-intelligence task force.
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Last December, the Czech counter-intelligence service, BIS, said in its annual report that Russia's intelligence services were behind cyber attacks targeting the Foreign Ministry in 2017.
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An FBI informant did meet with three of his campaign advisers in the early months of the counter-intelligence investigation into Russian meddling in the presidential race.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's military counter-intelligence agency is investigating 64 suspected "extremist Islamists" working for the armed forces, a spokesman for the Defence Ministry said on Wednesday.
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Coupled with the obvious partisan bias revealed in those who directed the counter-intelligence operation, it is hard to conclude these representations were innocently or ignorantly made.
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His father served in the Army Counter Intelligence Corps in Vienna, spent 24 years on active duty with the Air Force and became a high school teacher.
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It had been a plausible story until investigators from the U.S. Army Counter Intelligence Corps found that Reimer had been granted citizenship in Nazi Germany in 1944.
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According to Reuters, American counter-intelligence chiefs think that China is running a "super-aggressive" campaign on LinkedIn to recruit experts in health care, green energy and technology.
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Gruevski handed power to a caretaker government last January following opposition allegations that he and his counter-intelligence chief had tapped the phones of more than 20,000 people.
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"Strzok-Page, the incompetent & corrupt FBI lovers, have texts referring to a counter-intelligence operation into the Trump Campaign dating way back to December, 2015," the president wrote.
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Tusk was called as a witness in an investigation into former heads of military counter-intelligence (SKW) suspected of cooperating with foreign intelligence services without his official permission.
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WARSAW, Sept 2 (Reuters) - Poland's President Andrzej Duda said on Monday that the country's counter-intelligence services had detected what could be Chinese espionage activities on its territory.
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Another issue is that as much of Mueller's investigation represents a counter intelligence probe into election meddling by Russian spy agencies, some findings might need to remain classified.
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The military counter-intelligence agency is looking into 64 suspected Islamists, 268 suspected right-wing extremists and six suspected left-wing extremists in the armed forces, the newspaper said.
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The official said the FBI is interested in who was at the event and what was said, in the context of the counter-intelligence investigation into Russian election meddling.
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The service's head of counter-intelligence, Daniel Stenling, cited membership of NATO - which Sweden has debated joining - and security around the Baltic Sea as two important issues for Russia.
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Mr Mueller's most significant work could involve a counter-intelligence probe built around closely-held secret evidence of National Security Agency intercepts of Russians talking to Russians, they say.
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Macedonia was thrown into political turmoil in 2015 when opposition parties accused the prime minister and his counter-intelligence chief of orchestrating the wiretapping of more than 20,000 people.
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Macedonia has been in turmoil since February last year, when the opposition accused then Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski and his counter-intelligence chief of wiretapping more than 20,000 people.
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Sure, the anti-Trump text messages exchanged between Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, two FBI ofificials involved in the counter-intelligence operation into Russia interference in 2016, were inappropriate.
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Comey was overseeing a counter-intelligence probe on suspected election interference by Moscow and his dismissal led to the Department of Justice's appointment of Mueller, a former FBI director.
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The bill will provide a $307 million increase above the administration's request for counter-intelligence efforts to fight Russian cyberattacks in 2018, when mid-term congressional elections will be held.
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Macedonia has been in turmoil since the opposition accused then Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski and his counter-intelligence chief last year of orchestrating the wiretapping of more than 20,000 people.
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Growing disgruntlement in the security forces increases the importance of the several hundred Cuban counter-intelligence agents (supplied in return for cheap oil) who also prop up Mr Maduro's rule.
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"It's clear that top officials used unverified information in a court document to fuel a counter-intelligence investigation during an American political campaign," Nunes said in a statement on Wednesday.
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"In Bradlee's memoir, he revealed that he caught CIA counter intelligence master James Angleton breaking into Mary's studio the night of the murder and looking for her diary," explains Burleigh.
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Congressional sources from both parties who have reviewed the texts say they have no reason to believe the text is referring to a counter-intelligence investigation into the Trump campaign.
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"Wow, Strzok-Page, the incompetent & corrupt FBI lovers, have texts referring to a counter-intelligence operation into the Trump Campaign dating way back to December, 2015," Trump tweeted in June.
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"I believe this is the most severe counter-intelligence threat facing our country today," Bill Priestap, an assistant director in the FBI's counterintelligence division, told a Senate committee December 12.
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The retreat from Kurdish areas left a ton of intel in the hands of the RussiansYet, with one exception, little has been written on the longer-term (counter-)intelligence implications.
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The counter-intelligence probe started because Australian officials warned their US counterparts that a Trump aide -- George Papadopoulos -- had been bragging that he knew the Russians had dirt on Clinton.
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In his new position Cohen will focus on counter intelligence and strengthening the U.S.'s posture toward countries like Russia, China and Iran, according to someone familiar with Cohen's thinking.
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Wang, 60, a vice minister of public security, will likely replace Chen Wenqing as minister of state security, a secretive body responsible for counter-intelligence, foreign intelligence and national security.
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"We can report that no information indicating an immediate threat scenario was discovered," said Garry Reid, a director for defense intelligence, counter-intelligence, law enforcement and security, briefing Pentagon reporters.
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With the imprimatur of the FISA court judge's ruling, legitimacy — and as much transparency as could be prudently offered in a counter-intelligence case — would be brought to the process.
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Mueller, after closing his investigation, didn't put counter-intelligence conclusions in writing but instead set up a process to pass counterintelligence information to the FBI, he told Congress in July.
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"It's clear that top officials used unverified information in a court document to fuel a counter-intelligence investigation during an American political campaign," Nunes said in a statement Wednesday evening.
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As part of the counter-intelligence investigation, Turkish officials seized an encrypted computer located in a hidden compartment at what the official told Reuters was the spy ring's base in Istanbul.
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Go one level deeper, and it is intriguing because it offers a rare glimpse of the tools available to Mr Mueller as he conducts the counter-intelligence part of his probe.
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The former Yugoslav republic has been in turmoil since February 2015, when the opposition accused then-Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski and his counter-intelligence chief of wiretapping more than 20,000 people.
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation is also conducting a wide ranging counter-intelligence investigation into alleged Russian interference and potential collusion with Trump associates, though its findings may never become public.
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Macedonia was thrown into political turmoil in 2015, when opposition parties accused then-Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski and his counter-intelligence chief of orchestrating the wiretapping of more than 20,000 people.
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His testimony to ASIO, the Australian counter-intelligence agency, demonstrates "how Beijing's spies are infiltrating Hong Kong's democracy movement, manipulating Taiwan's elections and operating with impunity in Australia," per The Age.
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"We can report that no information indicating an immediate threat scenario was discovered," Garry Reid, the Defense Department's director for defense intelligence, counter-intelligence, law enforcement and security, told reporters Thursday.
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Saccone, 60, a former Air Force counter-intelligence officer, has described himself as "Trump before Trump was Trump," and in January he led the race by more than 10 percentage points.
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He&aposs the lead investigator that starts off the counter intelligence investigation using our intelligence agencies to go after and target the Trump campaign, this is the gut who leads that off.
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FBI Director James Comey told Congress that the bureau has launched a counter-intelligence investigation into whether there was collusion between Trump campaign staff and the Russian government to affect the election.
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Two years of political turmoil were triggered in 2015 after opposition parties accused then prime minister Nikola Gruevski and his counter-intelligence chief of orchestrating the wiretapping of more than 20,000 people.
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He specifically mentioned Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino; Maikel Moreno Pérez, president of Venezuela's Supreme Tribunal of Justice; and Ivan Rafael Hernandez Dala, the commander of Venezuela's Directorate General of Military Counter-Intelligence.
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Russian military and intelligence services have a powerful capacity to manufacture and distribute fraudulent materials in ways and for purposes that are well known throughout law enforcement, intelligence and counter-intelligence circles.
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As war approaches, she applies to join the Women's Armed Forces but is instead summoned to a job in the burgeoning secretarial pool of M.I.5, the British domestic counter-intelligence agency.
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The tiny ex-Yugoslav republic has been in turmoil since February 2015, when the opposition accused then-Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski and his counter-intelligence chief of wiretapping more than 20,000 people.
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I had gotten a copy of "Counter Intelligence," a 2000 collection of restaurant reviews by the food critic Jonathan Gold, who died this week at 57, as a gift before my trip.
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The first document is a correspondence between the Deputy of Counter Intelligence and the Head of the Judiciary Office of the Armed Forces, Hojatol-Islam Bahrami, on the day before Levinson disappeared.
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William Evanina, the U.S. counter-intelligence chief, told Reuters in an interview that intelligence and law enforcement officials have told LinkedIn, owned by Microsoft, about China's "super aggressive" efforts on the site.
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Washington (CNN)Congressional leadership did not object when former acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe informed them that the FBI had opened a counter-intelligence investigation into President Donald Trump, McCabe said Tuesday.
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Hector Alejandro Cabrera Fuentes and one of his companions were caught with images of the license plate number of a US counter-intelligence informant at Miami International Airport, the Miami Herald reported.
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It is quite possible that no charges will ever be leveled against Trump aides and that the FBI counter-intelligence operation will find that there was no wrongdoing or collusion by Trump aides.
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Three days later, when a man whose passport identified him as Aleksei Morenets was arrested in The Hague by officers of the MIVD, the Dutch counter-intelligence agency, he still had the receipt.
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He said then that security forces outside his control - including units reporting to two counter-terrorism agencies, two Defence Ministry directorates and regional security commands - overlap with his ministry's own counter-intelligence efforts.
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The Counter-Intelligence Unit of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards interrogated her several times over the next few days, arrested her and released her on bail, Ghahremani said in an interview with VICE News.
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This would be disturbing because this has often been a complaint by many people that you see things shift over to counter-intelligence when they don&apost have the facts on their side.
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But evidence gathered by the FBI so far points to groups that are known to U.S. counter-intelligence for carrying out intrusions for the Russian government, the officials briefed on the probe say.
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The Venezuelan government will deport U.S. freelance journalist Cody Weddle, who was arrested and detained in Caracas on Wednesday after the country's military counter-intelligence agency raided his home, reports the Washington Post.
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What is the evidence basically that launches -- COMEY: The question is, you open a counter intelligence investigation to understand are any Americans in cahoots with the foreign intelligence activities of an adversary nation.
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However, in exchange for their service to their communities, their own government through a joint effort by the federal, state and local effort called the Counter Intelligence Program or COINTELPRO covertly attacked them.
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There will be four subcommittees that will oversee: technological problems like artificial intelligence; counter-intelligence, proliferation, and terrorism; intelligence management and reform, including security clearances; and then finally, defense and war fighter support.
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Increasingly, when American industry is forced to abandon these markets, the gap is filled by Russian and Chinese companies, and their presence inhibits future American defense industrial partnerships because of counter-intelligence concerns.
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On that first post-"Counter Intelligence" trip to Los Angeles, I had a few meals at restaurants he recommended: Korean hot pots in Koreatown, Persian sandwiches on Westwood, Oaxacan mole in Mid-City.
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Because the nature of the hostile foreign nation is well known, counter- intelligence investigations tend to be centered on individuals the FBI suspects to be witting or unwitting agents of that foreign power.
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Related to that visit is a copy of a schedule for a briefing over lunch to discuss Iraq, Bosnia, Somalia, counter-intelligence, counter-narcotics and "CIS Ops," an apparent reference to former Soviet states.
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The real issue regarding obstruction of justice is whether the president repeatedly fired those investigating the Russian attack against America that intelligence, counter-intelligence and law enforcement unequivocally state has happened, and continues today.
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At a meeting conducted at the Justice Department on Wednesday, executives from Apple, Twitter, Snapchat, Facebook, and MTV offered their input to top counter intelligence officials, according to an industry source familiar with the meeting.
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The conversation between Papadopoulos and the diplomat, Alexander Downer, in London was a driving factor behind the FBI's decision to open a counter-intelligence investigation of Moscow's contacts with the Trump campaign, the Times reported.
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Comey also told Trump that he was not under investigation as part of the FBI's counter-intelligence probe — prompting Trump to press Comey, saying, "We need to get that fact out," according to the testimony.
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Trump repeats this over and over again based on a spurious claim: That the FBI's counter-intelligence investigation was begun because of the opposition research document put together by former British Intelligence officer Christopher Steele.
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As I read through "Counter Intelligence," a straightforward collection of Mr. Gold's reviews for LA Weekly and a handful of other publications that sparkled with wit and curiosity, I could feel my culinary consciousness expanding.
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David Laufman, a former senior counter-intelligence official at the Justice Department who helped investigate Russian interference, said that the probe has also sent a clear message to U.S. officials: challenge Trump at your peril.
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The hacker group is also believed to be linked to former U.S. Air Force counter-intelligence officer Monica Witt, who defected to Tehran in 2013 and is now wanted by the FBI for alleged espionage.
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Drafted a year later into the Army, he took part in the D-Day invasion of Normandy and the Battle of the Bulge while in a Counter Intelligence Corps unit of the Fourth Infantry Division.
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In the case of "The Americans", it can be laughable: one of the series' funniest moments comes when the head of counter-intelligence at the FBI discovers that his secretary has secretly married a KGB officer.
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Graham promised an investigation into those text messages as well as into the origins of the FBI's counter-intelligence probe -- up to and including questions about the FISA warrant granted the FBI to surveil Carter Page.
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So, we are now supposed to take the word of the FBI and the Department of Justice when they started this investigation or the FBI did under the guise of it being a counter intelligence investigation.
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According to testimony on Thursday, prosecutors also assembled dossiers on four defense lawyers and a Navy Times reporter, assigning a counter-intelligence clerk to obtain personal information on the five from at least one military database.
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Monica Witt, a former Air Force counter-intelligence officer, is accused of defecting to Iran in 2013, after leaving the military in 2008 after more than a decade's service and later working as a defense contractor.
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First reported by The Washington Post, the talks were focused on letting UK agencies, such as counter-intelligence unit MI5, serve "production orders" on U.S. firms demanding data for "live intercepts" in inquiries involving UK citizens.
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And if they used the lesser standards of a counter intelligence investigation -- INGRAHAM: Explain that for us for people you don&apost understand, to open counter intel investigation, you don&apost need a criminal predicate, correct?
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Perhaps the most tantalizing tidbit from the 2,800 pages of declassified documents comes from the files of this man, James Jesus Angleton, the devious CIA counter intelligence chief who misled the Warren commission at critical points.
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And now, going into the second year, and all of the evidence that has come out of this, what we have discovered is a system that used our -- the counter-intelligence investigation, that&aposs very important.
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Close by, the words "Very Truly yours," are blown up from a letter, framed, and slashed by a signature of the director of the COunter INTELligence PROgram (COINTELPRO) — John Edgar Hoover in "Untitled (Hoover Signature)" (2016).
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In addition, there were agents and analysts from the FBI who were not on our team, but whose job it was to identify counter-intelligence information in our files and disseminate that information to the FBI.
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The dispute erupted last Friday when federal police arrested the head of the Senate police force for counter-intelligence efforts to protect senators implicated in a sprawling graft scandal, mostly by sweeping their homes for bugs.
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Gandarilla had served as head of the department of counter-intelligence for 16 years, becoming the First Deputy Interior Minister in 2015, according to a brief government statement broadcast by state-run television on Monday evening.
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The spending bill also includes a $307 million increase over the Trump administration's request for the FBI's budget, which appropriators said would be used in part for counter-intelligence efforts to protect against Russia cyber attacks.
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Burkhard Even, head of counter-intelligence at the BfV agency, said Russian-backed media had spread low-level propaganda which did not have a significant impact on voters, but there was no sign of anything worse.
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Herman said he had been contacted by someone close to the Kremlin about plans to kill Babchenko but that he instead turned this information over to the Ukrainian authorities and worked on counter-intelligence operations with them.
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They can issue a criminal subpoena through a grand jury, and for matters involving counter-intelligence issues, they can get a national security letter, which is a classified administrative subpoena that doesn't require a judge's prior approval.
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That was the verdict of the Republican chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Representative Devin Nunes of California, at whose hearing the FBI director, James Comey, revealed the existence of the counter-intelligence probe, opened eight months ago.
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Bob Anderson, who served as Mr Mueller's assistant director of counter-intelligence when both men were at the FBI, warns that proving Mr Trump or a member of his cabinet intentionally worked for the Russians will be hard.
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You had the New York Times report come out this week, crossfire hurricane was the code name they used of this counter-intelligence investigation, and there was a meeting that Papadopoulos had with someone over in Great Britain.
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A former counter-intelligence agent, Gilmore served as governor of Virginia from 1998 to 2002 -- after stepping down as state attorney general to focus on his campaign -- and spent 2001 as the chairman of the Republican National Committee.
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Congress doesn't investigate crimes, though, and Chaffetz' declaration that Flynn likely broke the law suggests he may have serious legal trouble and/or be cooperating with the FBI's criminal- and counter-intelligence probe of the same subversion campaign.
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The German military's counter-intelligence agency is looking into 275 suspected right-wing extremists in its ranks, including a soldier heard saying "Heil Hitler", the Defense Ministry has told parliament in a letter seen by Reuters on Sunday.
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The new schedule also features a number of themed shows, such as the low end-focused "United States of Bass", "Music in Film" for cinephiles, and "Counter Intelligence", exploring the legacies of influential record stores around the world.
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As we learned this week, those agents were Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya and Rinat Akhmetshin — Russian military veteran, former counter intelligence operative, and according to published reports, a gun for hire in opposition research, propaganda and disinformation campaigns.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The chairman of the European Union's leaders, Donald Tusk, will go to Poland on April 19 to testify before a prosecutor as a witness in an investigation Poland has launched against two former military counter-intelligence chiefs.
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The spending bill also includes a $307 million increase over the Trump administration's request for the FBI's budget for counter-intelligence efforts to fight Russian cyber attacks this year, according to a summary of the bill seen by Reuters.
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Prior to his demotion to the FBI's Human Resource department, Strzok was a key member of the bureau's counter-intelligence team investigating Clinton's use of a private server for government business conducted while she served as secretary of state.
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Nigel Farage has been named as a "person of interest" in the U.S. counter-intelligence investigation concerning possible collusion between the Russian Kremlin and President Donald Trump's election campaign, according to the U.K.'s The Guardian newspaper, citing sources.
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Trump's allies on Capitol Hill spent almost ten hours interrogating FBI counter-intelligence agent Peter Strzok in a committee hearing on Thursday, relentlessly questioning him over text messages he exchanged with a coworker with whom he had an affair.
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Despite many strident complaints about the need to protect "sources and methods," the president and his defenders in Congress are right to try to bring to light the details of the counter-intelligence investigation of the 2016 Trump campaign.
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VIENNA (Reuters) - Austria's counter-intelligence chief says he is pleased that European Union nerve center Brussels is now a bigger den of spies than Vienna, though hundreds of foreign agents still work under diplomatic cover in the Austrian capital.
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On Friday, NBC News reported that a lobbyist who was once a Soviet counter-intelligence officer participated in the meeting, which was also attended by Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, and the president's former campaign manager, Paul Manafort.
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"It's clear that top officials used unverified information in a court document to fuel a counter-intelligence investigation during an American political campaign," Nunes wrote in a statement on Wednesday afternoon regarding the FBI's objections to the memo's release.
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Lithuania's counter-intelligence chief Darius Jauniskis told Reuters that Russia had attempted to sow chaos in Lithuania by orchestrating a cyber attack in 2012 against the Lithuanian central bank and its top online news website, which brought both down.
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Press freedom advocacy groups have criticized plans to tighten rules against "fake news" and the questioning by the counter-intelligence agency of a Le Monde reporter who broke the so-called Benalla scandal involving current and former officials from Macron's administration.
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"I recently saw that Twitter is cancelling, I don't know, millions of fake accounts, and our request would be maybe LinkedIn could go ahead and be part of that," said Evanina, who heads the U.S. National Counter-Intelligence and Security Center.
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So, let me just remind my viewers, the Ambassador from Australia, $214 million going to the Clinton Foundation is the guy who basically gets the information to say to the FBI, we&aposve got to start a counter-intelligence investigation.
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"Sebastian Gorka is not a Nazi or a security threat because he is some sort of secret British agent," said a member of the Hungarian counter intelligence service, who has reviewed the files a security background check on Gorka from 2002.
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And, you know, when you hear Brennan go crazy and attack Trump like he is, you have to wonder why on earth that this -- why do on Earth was he ever allowed near any counter-intelligence investigation related Mr. Trump.
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The FBI, as part of its counter intelligence probe and the investigation into Russian meddling, has scrutinized some of Donald Trump Jr.'s business dealings and meetings even before the latest meeting was disclosed, one of the US officials said.
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Rubio pointed to a Miami Herald article that noted he had pushed Comey on why he didn't disclose publicly that Trump wasn't under a counter-intelligence investigation and that also mentioned that Rubio dined with the president earlier this week.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Kremlin on Wednesday rejected a British suggestion it might use a former U.S. Marine detained in Russia on espionage charges as a pawn in a diplomatic game and said it reserved the right to conduct counter-intelligence activities.
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The bill will provide a $307 million increase above the administration's request for counter-intelligence efforts to fight Russian cyberattacks in 2018, when U.S. mid-term congressional elections will be held, and $380 million for grants to states to secure U.S. election systems.
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It is easier to get surveillance as a counter intelligence matter because you can use powerful tools like the FISA court even though FISA has a probable cause condition, it is not the same probable cause we have in the 248th Amendment.
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"I was deeply offended to learn that two disgraced FBI agents considered infiltrating our transition team by sending a counter intelligence agent to one of my very first intelligence briefings only 9 days after the election," Pence said in a statement to Axios.
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Sunday's snap election was called after Gruevski stepped down and handed over to a caretaker government in January to end a national crisis caused by opposition allegations that he and his counter-intelligence chief had wiretapped the phones of more than 20,000 people.
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She had confessed to a well-known former hacker that she had submitted records in bulk to Assange; the hacker, in turn, routed the information to military counter-intelligence, and then shared her confessions—written on an encrypted chat service—with the magazine.
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There are dossiers and black lists, agents and double agents, "good trolls" spying on Trump supporters and fake antifa accounts, disinformation and counter-intelligence campaigns carried out on message boards and chat rooms like Discord and sometimes in full view on social media.
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Complex counter intelligence challenge FBI Director Christopher Wray, in the past year, has sought to focus repeatedly on the threat from China and its use of foreign students in US universities to try to get access to sensitive military and civilian research.
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The briefings to educational institutions, venture capitalists and technology firms have been given by Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats, along with officials from the FBI and the National Counter-Intelligence and Security Center, the FT reported, citing officials who attended the briefings.
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She was trained in the Persian language Farsi and granted access to top-secret and "sensitive compartmented" national defense information that included the United States' foreign intelligence and counter intelligence operations and the true names of its intelligence agents and its sources overseas.
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The British have 85033 major intelligence agencies, one for external operations, MI-6 — the Secret Intelligence Service of James Bond fame, MI-5, for domestic counter-intelligence, Defence Intelligence for the military and GCHQ, the U.K. equivalent of our National Security Agency (NSA).
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The speaker continues to have concerns with partisan political research being used for law enforcement and counter-intelligence decision making, and he believes the government must do a better job providing a full picture to the court when applying for FISA warrants.
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Consequently, the armed forces want applicants to undergo a security check by the military counter-intelligence agency, starting in July 2017, so they can swiftly spot extremists, terrorists and criminals, Welt am Sonntag newspaper said in an article due to be published on Sunday.
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"He said he had nothing to do with Russia, had not been involved with hookers in Russia, and had always assumed he was being recorded when in Russia," said Comey, who had briefed Trump on "salacious material" that had arisen in a counter-intelligence investigation.
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U.S. reporter Cody Weddle, a freelancer who works for the Miami Herald, the Telegraph and a local ABC News affiliate, was arrested in Venezuela on Wednesday by the country's military counter-intelligence agency, according to a tweet from the national press workers union of Venezuela.
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The U.K.'s state counter-intelligence agency MI5 jumped from seventh to first place in the Stonewall charity's Top 100 Employers list for 2016, followed closely behind by Lloyds Banking Group, and trumping Nottingham's public health care provider which took the crown in 2015.
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Law enforcement sources have said that the FBI is pursuing a wide-ranging counter-intelligence investigation of alleged contacts between Trump associates and Russians, as well as two separate investigations into pre-election email hacking linked to Russia which mainly targeted Democratic political operatives.
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There is now an abundance of information gleaned from the redacted FISA warrants and other materials to know that, in commencing this investigation, the Department of Justice blurred the lines between counter-intelligence and criminal investigations and the rules that are supposed to govern each.
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"This raises the question of whether the FBI ever alerted Mr. Trump to the FBI's counter-intelligence concerns regarding his campaign manager and others associated with the campaign -- so that he could take defensive action to prevent the campaign from being infiltrated," Grassley wrote.
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Macedonia, a poor Balkan country of two million people on the front line of Europe's refugee crisis, has been in turmoil since Zaev accused Gruevski and his counter-intelligence chief, Saso Mijalkov, in February last year of orchestrating the wiretapping of more than 20,000 people.
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Barr will also have to decide whether information in Mueller's assessment is likely to raise White House executive privilege assertions -- to protect consultations between the President and his closest advisers, or given that part of the probe is a counter-intelligence investigation should remain classified.
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It is unclear how much evidence Mueller can present on the question of contacts between Russians and people in Trump's orbit since the counter-intelligence side of the investigation -- which could still be going on at the FBI -- involves classified information, sources and methods.
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Currently CEO of national security consulting company Shortwaver, he previously served as the vice president and head of the strategic analysis division at CACI-National Security Research, a large defense contracting company that specializes in cyber analytics, counter intelligence and other services to disrupt terrorist activities.
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FBI agents visited the homes of several employees of Kaspersky Lab, a Russia-based cyber security firm, Tuesday to learn more about "the company's operations as part of a counter-intelligence inquiry," reports NBC's Ken Dilanian and Tom Winter, citing multiple sources familiar with the matter.
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Senior Trump Administration officials participating in the Congressional briefings will include Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolfe, FBI Director Christopher Wray and William Evanina, director of the counter-intelligence agency attached to the Office of Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), according to Congressional and administration officials.
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I mean, I suppose we could debate what "the heart" of a 435-page report is, but the BIG takeaway from Horowitz's report was that there was no "documentary or testimonial evidence that political bias or improper motivation influenced" the decision to open the counter-intelligence probe.
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Atkinson was also concerned that Trump potentially exposed himself to "serious national security and counter-intelligence risks" when he pressed his Ukrainian counterpart to investigate Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden and his son during a July 25 phone call, according to a Justice Department legal opinion.
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DESANTIS: And they did not -- and that was a week after that same Peter Strzok who is saying he is going to stop Donald Trump from being president opens a full-blown counter-intelligence investigation against Trump&aposs campaign based of an off-hand statement at a bar.
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If FBI and DOJ right where that middle line is say that&aposs when we began the investigation, and you now find out that a counter-intelligence investigation was started against a Presidential campaign a week after the guy gets the nomination to be Republican candidate for President.
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Imagine if the Bush administration had used a counter- intelligence operation against the Obama campaign over nothing, because right now, there has been no criminal evidence to show there was any wrongdoing to justify the wiretapping and the secret subpoenas and even the opening up of the investigation.
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Instead of toying with the country's freedoms, the White House should spearhead unconventional policy responses, either legal in nature (such as subjecting Rosatom's European nuclear power plants to careful inspections or fighting for better campaign financing disclosures) or involve cyber counter-intelligence that can debunk the Kremlin's propaganda war.
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Macedonia, a poor Balkan country of two million people on the front line of Europe's refugee crisis, has been in turmoil since the opposition accused then-Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski and his counter-intelligence chief in February last year of orchestrating the wiretapping of more than 20,000 people.
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"I think there's going to be an overriding interest in transparency here as to the facts of what campaign officials and other U.S. persons did with respect to the probe," said Ryan Fayhee, a former DOJ National Security Division prosecutor who handled counter-espionage and counter-intelligence matters.
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He served with the Counter-Intelligence Corps of the Fourth Infantry Division, whose job was to interview Nazi deserters and sympathizers, and was stationed for a while in Tiverton, Devon, the setting of 'For Esmé — with Love and Squalor,' probably the most deeply felt of the 'Nine Stories.
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When Congressman Devin Nunes defended releasing his memo in spite of FBI complaints earlier this week, he claimed "top officials used unverified information in a court document to fuel a counter-intelligence investigation during an American political campaign," suggesting (as President Trump has) that feds were going after the campaign itself.
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When Americans have a higher chance statistically of being crushed to death by their own furniture than being killed in a terrorist attack, we should question why our money is being used to fund a reiteration of the now defunct Counter Intelligence program, that was disbanded by the FBI in 1971.
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It is time for the United States (and the United Kingdom) to pull their weight: by publishing more evidence, by signalling political consequences for the perpetrators, by treating Wikileaks as a legitimate counter-intelligence target, and by providing not only physical but also improved digital security to candidates and campaigns in the future.
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On Tuesday night, the President tweeted that "SPYGATE is in full force," referencing December 2015 texts from former FBI agents Peter Strzok and Lisa Page allegedly about a "counter-intelligence operation into the Trump Campaign," despite former FBI Director James Comey's assertion that the FBI's Russia investigation did not begin until July 2016.
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ET (University of Michigan) The Russian lawyer who met with the Trump team after an alleged promise of compromising material on Hillary Clinton was accompanied by a Russian-American lobbyist, a former Soviet counter intelligence officer who's suspected by some U.S. officials of having ongoing ties to Russian intelligence, NBC News has learned.
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San Francisco FBI Special Agent in Charge John Bennett, whose counter-intelligence agents led the two-year probe, said China was the largest practitioner of government-backed economic espionage in Silicon Valley, but he noted that some victim companies remained reluctant to come forward to the FBI, for fear of stock price impact or embarrassment.
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The memo, drafted by staffers working for the Republican majority against the objections of Democrats on the committee, actually notes in passing that the genesis of the counter-intelligence probe into the Trump campaign was a probe into another campaign adviser, George Papadopoulos, who has since pleaded guilty to misleading federal agents about his contacts with Russia.
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Patriotic Republicans and Democrats should draw a clear red line, and enforce it appropriately, if a president falsely accuses his predecessor of committing a crime to divert attention from Congress, law enforcement agencies and counter-intelligence services investigating whether or not there was collusion between anyone associated with him and Russian agents attacking our democracy and supporting his candidacy.
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In June, the chief of staff of the Associate Directorate for Security and Counter Intelligence corrected a document for accuracy to clarify they had "reviewed all of the email and NSANet social media posts authored by Edward Snowden which we have been able to obtain," seemingly suggesting they were not confident they had obtained them all.
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So, this is why at the end of the day, we have to hold these hearings, we have to ask these questions, and ultimately, the President of the United States is going to have to declassify all of this information so the American public knows exactly what the counter-intelligence resources that we have in this country, what were used for.
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While there are various reasons Trump won, whether or not it is ultimately proven that Russia hacked voting on election day, our intelligence and counter-intelligence officials have no doubt that Russia was behind aggressive and sustained cyberattacks against the Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonLewandowski on potential NH Senate run: If I run, 'I'm going to win' Fighter pilot vs.
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From that report:Contrary to earlier reporting in the New York Times, which cited FBI sources as saying that the agency did not believe that the private server in Donald Trump's Trump Tower which was connected to a Russian bank had any nefarious purpose, the FBI's counter-intelligence arm, sources say, re-drew an earlier FISA court request around possible financial and banking offenses related to the server.
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President Trump is now engaged in an all-out attack against all investigations of the Russia scandal that includes — using my words and not Rubio's — a litany of outright lies suggesting that lifetime Republican prosecutors are trying to help Democrats win the midterm elections and suggesting that America's leading law enforcement and counter-intelligence agencies are engaging in a "criminal Deep State" conspiracy against him.
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I&aposm tired of the elitist telling me and everyone else to not to believe our lying eyes when the truth is so painfully obvious whether it&aposs Peter Strzok saying he hated and despised Trump and would stop his becoming President, but it did not affect his work when he&aposs the one who began the counter- intelligence investigation against Trump that we are still living with.
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So here you have information flowing from the Clinton campaign from the Russians, likely, likely, I believe was handed directly from Russian propaganda arms to the Clinton campaign, fed into the top levels of the FBI and Department of Justice to open up a counter-intelligence investigation into a political campaign that has now polluted nearly every top official at the DoJ and FBI over the course of the last couple years.
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JOE DIGENOVA, FORMER US ATTORNEY: Well, I don&apost think there is any doubt that to a reasonable United States Attorney, what you have here is an out of control CIA and FBI doing counter-intelligence investigations against American citizens in the united states and abroad without a proper predicate and without authority in an effort to start another investigation so that they can do damage to the Presidential candidate of the other party.
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I don&apost think there is any doubt based on the available public evidence that John Brennan, James Clapper, James Comey and others worked together to try to start a counter-intelligence investigation against the Trump campaign, and that in the end, in order to get that done, they fabricated information, fed it to people overseas who were American citizens who then mouthed information about that which was picked up by the FBI and used in FISA warrants.
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But similar to how a counter-intelligence officer might view a spy thriller, those in the art world will likely notice that certain liberties are often taken in the museum heist genre: iconic paintings are stolen from museums that have never actually owned them; fictional institutions are invented; forgeries are rarely crafted from era-appropriate materials; and a museum gift shop poster would simply never pass as an authentic oil painting, no matter how impressive the frame.
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The bill would provide a $307 million increase above the administration's request for counter-intelligence efforts to fight Russian cyber attacks in 2018, when U.S. congressional elections will be held, and $380 million for grants to states to secure their election systems The bill allots additional funds to the National Institutes of Health, including a $414 million increase for Alzheimer's disease research, $40 million more for research on developing a universal flu vaccine and $17 million more for antibiotic-resistance bacteria research.
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For all the Republicans' talk of a top-down Democratic plot, Steele and Simpson appear never to have told their ultimate client—the Clinton campaign's law firm—that Steele had gone to the F.B.I. Clinton's campaign spent much of the summer of 2016 fending off stories about the Bureau's investigation into her e-mails, without knowing that the F.B.I. had launched a counter-intelligence investigation into the Trump team's ties to Russia—one fuelled, in part, by the Clinton campaign's own opposition research.
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When Trump criticized NATO, worked against European unity, criticized other democratic leaders, praised foreign dictators, attacked the free press, praised WikiLeaks, attacked a former FBI director in a closed meeting with the Russian foreign minister, criticized the FBI counter-intelligence investigation, failed to unequivocally restate America's commitment under NATO to defend allies from outside attack, suggested a preference for far-right extremists such as Marine Le Pen in France, fomented bitter political divisions at home, repeatedly violated America's tradition of supporting human rights and collapsed America's global image, per a Pew Research poll, he helps Putin attack America while his administration is being investigated about ties to Russia.
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