Definition of "counterspy" []

• A spy working in opposition to enemy espionage. (noun)

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• ""I Led Three Lives" was on before I was ten years old, and I remembered the term counterspy for years ... with the wrong meaning of counter"
• "Amis meant civil servant as a euphemism for "counterspy," or, stated even more bluntly, a professional assassin."
• ""Traitor" is an updated variation on the story of the 'counterspy' who is known only to one person in the not-so-safe and not-so-cooperative bureaucracy."