As the National Counterintelligence Executive, Evanina is the head of counterintelligence for the U.S. government and chief counterintelligence adviser to the director of National Intelligence.
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"You have an enduring threat from a counterintelligence perspective," Evanina, the National Counterintelligence Executive and director of National Counterintelligence and Security Center, told CNN in a telephone interview.
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Because what we're supposed to be all about is counterintelligence, and following money is counterintelligence 101.
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Bill Priestap, the assistant director of the Counterintelligence Division at the F.B.I., briefed Kushner on the counterintelligence threats he faced.
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Although the FBI has a broad counterintelligence mandate, hate groups enjoy constitutional protections that make them presumptively off-limits for counterintelligence investigations.
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"[China] is the most severe counterintelligence threat facing our country today," said Bill Priestap, the FBI's assistant director of the Counterintelligence Division.
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"As requested we, ADS&CI [the NSA's associate director security & counterintelligence] and FBI, have conducted extensive research into [Snowden's statement to the European Parliament]," the NSA counterintelligence official wrote.
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As the National Counterintelligence Executive, he leads the National Counterintelligence and Security Center, whose mission is to lead and support the counterintelligence and security activities of the U.S. Government, the U.S. Intelligence Community, and U.S. private sector entities who are at risk of intelligence collection, penetration or attack by foreign and other adversaries.
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"The Chinese counterintelligence threat is more deep, more diverse, more vexing, more challenging, more comprehensive and more concerning than any counterintelligence threat I can think of," FBI Director Christopher Wray said.
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But a president cannot obstruct justice by shutting down a counterintelligence investigation, or by threatening to shut it down, or by redirecting counterintelligence resources to focus on some threats rather than others.
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The threshold of evidence needed to open a counterintelligence investigation is relatively low, and Barr has suggested that the department may need to tighten procedures for counterintelligence investigations that involve political campaigns.
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The FBI launched a counterintelligence investigation on July 193, 2016.
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Giuliani is also the focus of a related counterintelligence inquiry.
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Yes. That's the stuff of counterintelligence nightmares, is it not?
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COONS: A critical role that the FBI provides its counterintelligence.
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The FBI opened the Russia counterintelligence investigation in summer 2016.
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They're doing a criminal investigation, we're doing a counterintelligence investigation.
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Against intelligence and counterintelligence, against the latest developments and technologies?
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The FBI and, later, Mueller, were conducting a counterintelligence investigation.
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The probe reportedly includes a "counterintelligence" aspect, CNN reported Wednesday.
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But the new document raises bigger concerns over counterintelligence threats.
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The National Counterintelligence and Security Center (NCSC) on Monday unveiled the new National Counterintelligence Strategy, which emphasizes the need to defend against foreign operations aimed at democratic systems and at taking down critical infrastructure.
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Still, recent weeks have offered another example of Trump's counterintelligence neglect.
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And the use of spies is common in a counterintelligence probe.
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They used our intelligence services by opening up a counterintelligence investigation.
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So our criminal investigative work, our counterintelligence work, our counterterrorism work.
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These kind of charges are not commonly pursued in counterintelligence cases.
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However, the FBI's counterintelligence investigation was in existence before Mueller's appointment.
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"Hill in her testimony also described Sondland as a "counterintelligence risk.
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Yes, Vindman said, following standard counterintelligence protocol despite the obvious joke.
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Ms. Rangappa was an F.B.I. special agent focusing on counterintelligence investigations.
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The company is also stepping up its counterintelligence and security measures.
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"Big data is the new wave for counterintelligence," Mr. Lewis said.
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The F.B.I. conducts two types of inquiries, criminal and counterintelligence investigations.
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"This will be a complex intelligence and counterintelligence challenge," he said.
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The prosecutor's office denied that Mr. Herman worked for Ukrainian counterintelligence.
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She is a FBI former special agent, specializing in counterintelligence investigations.
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He was the second-highest ranking counterintelligence official at the bureau.
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Counterintelligence is not a proceeding for purposes of the obstruction laws.
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But what came next caught everyone — including counterintelligence veterans — off guard.
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Counterintelligence investigations examine the connections between American citizens and foreign governments.
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Thus, the counterintelligence investigations into the 1985 losses lasted 16 years.
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This is important, because Mueller was also conducting a counterintelligence investigation.
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The use of informants is commonplace in counterintelligence and criminal investigations.
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Some legal experts have said the counterintelligence probe Mueller inherited from Comey may prove more significant than his criminal inquiry, though it is not clear to what degree counterintelligence findings will be included in the report.
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Schiff had issued a subpoena for all of Mueller's counterintelligence materials, but he had proposed that the Justice Department begin the effort by providing 12 specific sets of counterintelligence materials that were referenced in the Mueller report.
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Mueller was told to do a counterintelligence investigation into what Russia did.
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C.: No. Well, you talk about a counterintelligence investigation, I get that.
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The FBI, in 2016, opened a counterintelligence probe into the Trump campaign.
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There was no issue of opening a counterintelligence investigation into a campaign.
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It has to do with the need for a strong counterintelligence entity.
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This is not the way counterintelligence is normally done in the FBI.
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The investigation started out as a counterintelligence probe, not a criminal one.
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All major American law enforcement, intelligence and counterintelligence agencies agree with this.
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A former military intelligence officer and special agent of U.S. Army Counterintelligence.
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Reagan never tried to obstruct a lawful counterintelligence or law-enforcement investigation.
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The Russia matter proper really does require counterintelligence investigators and prosecutorial expertise.
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Alejandro Trelles Shaw, a retired counterintelligence officer, watched the speech at home.
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CNN previously reported that a counterintelligence probe of Giuliani is also underway.
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Within the F.B.I., Chinese counterintelligence has not been the best career path.
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It is unclear whether Mr. Mueller is still pursuing the counterintelligence matter.
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Since then, counterintelligence officials have tracked the couple's visits to the island.
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Counterintelligence investigators also examined whether Trump himself was somehow a Russian asset.
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Instead, a generic briefing was given about counterintelligence threats, without such details.
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Jeff Asher was a counterintelligence analyst for the CIA for five years.
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Mr. Priestap led the F.B.I.'s counterintelligence division from 2015 through 2018.
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Mr. Priestap led the F.B.I.'s counterintelligence division from 2015 through 2018.
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By then, the counterintelligence investigation into Trump's campaign was seven weeks old.
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If we consider the counterintelligence investigation, the spying, the spygate, all appropriate descriptions.
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During his FBI career, Strzok rose to deputy assistant director, focusing on counterintelligence.
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You know, a lot of people forget -- counterintelligence investigations aren&apost criminal investigation.
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So, he&aposs conflating these two things, counterintelligence investigation and political dirty tricks.
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There are parts of it that look and feel a lot like counterintelligence.
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FBI counterintelligence investigations can take years and don't often lead to criminal charges.
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"People liked him," Bob Anderson, the FBI's former head of counterintelligence, told me.
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On at least one occasion, they met alone, which counterintelligence officials considered risky.
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Soon after, CNN reported that there was a counterintelligence aspect to the investigation.
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FBI counterintelligence officials are hopefully focused on where all of this is headed.
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And was "CD" a reference to the counterintelligence division or the cyber division?
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And keep in mind, and counterintelligence investigations are never designed to become public.
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These eight features of a counterintelligence operation are only the pieces we know.
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Third, strengthen counterintelligence resources to keep up with the changing landscape of technology.
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Then the decision would be distributed to counterintelligence officers stationed at Soviet embassies.
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In collaboration with the F.B.I., he laundered some of their counterintelligence for them.
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" Counterintelligence officials have described it as handling information "like a state intelligence service.
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When he was hired, Mr. Mueller inherited supervision of an F.B.I. counterintelligence investigation.
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The memo does not mention that Mr. Ohr worked on counternarcotics, not counterintelligence.
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They were not prosecutors or counterintelligence officers or even spokesmen from Downing Street.
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BURR: Isn't content an important part of the forensics from a counterintelligence standpoint?
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Mr. Page later traveled to Moscow again, raising new concerns among counterintelligence agents.
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John Cornyn (R-Texas), referring to the counterintelligence investigation of the Trump campaign.
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Where is our government, and — more to the point — where is American counterintelligence?
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Trump's past business dealings have been an area of interest to counterintelligence officials.
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And Blunt received immunity from prosecution so as to avoid compromising counterintelligence operations.
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Because it is a counterintelligence investigation, it can just go on and on.
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Counterintelligence cases are among the most difficult, time-consuming inquiries the F.B.I. conducts.
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Those not contacted include former FBI counterintelligence agent Peter Strzok; former FBI general counsel Jim Baker; former chief of the National Security Division's Counterintelligence and Export Control Section David Laufman; and former head of DOJ's National Security Division Mary McCord.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I&aposm going to differ -- MEADOWS: They don&apost work and counterintelligence.
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If the report is correct, it indicates there's a counterintelligence investigation of Carter Page.
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Gutnikov later joined Smersh, the military counterintelligence unit, that spun off from the NKVD.
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I believe they never should have opened a counterintelligence investigation into a political party.
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Alternatively, the FBI counterintelligence investigation that began before Mueller was appointed could have continued.
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Moreover, the Post reported, the FBI counterintelligence probe into Flynn's call is still active.
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The related counterintelligence investigation is only sparingly mentioned in one paragraph of the report.
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What documents the committee wants: The documents are related to foreign intelligence and counterintelligence.
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He was polygraphed by counterintelligence authorities and his family background was investigated and vetted.
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What is anomalous is the effort by some Republicans to undermine legitimate counterintelligence concerns.
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But few details have been made public about the counterintelligence aspect of the investigation.
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During the 1950s, his family said, he briefly worked for the Army in counterintelligence.
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"There were counterintelligence activities undertaken against the Trump campaign," Barr told host Jan Crawford.
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Nor are the counterintelligence implications of Mueller's findings, which aren't part of the report.
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BURR: At what point would that recruitment become a counterintelligence threat to our country?
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Counterintelligence 101 is following the money, because following money is how you compromise people.
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And the FBI's job is to protect this country ... and to lead our counterintelligence.
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Pakistani military officials described the capture of Mr. Jadhav as a major counterintelligence victory.
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Mr. Strzok is considered one of the bureau's most experienced and trusted counterintelligence investigators.
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It is hard to say because nearly everything that counterintelligence agents do is classified.
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And instead what they did, Mark, and this harks back to Comey&aposs testimony that we talked about before the House, they assigned to Mueller a counterintelligence investigation, which is irregular because in the Justice Department, counterintelligence investigations don&apost get prosecutors.
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Schiff has argued the counterintelligence information would help the House Intelligence Committee find out if Trump "or the people in his campaign had been compromised," while Nunes has said he was seeking information to find out about the origins of the counterintelligence probe.
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They increased enforcement of FARA as part of a move to do "everything we could to meet the counterintelligence mission of the Justice Department," said David Laufman, the former chief of the department's counterintelligence and export control section who oversaw the enforcement surge.
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JORDAN: And has Peter Strzok been removed from his position as deputy head of counterintelligence?
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This is counterintelligence investigation involving something very specific, involving the Trump campaign, Trump campaign members.
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But they said it relates to ongoing counterintelligence investigations and special counsel Robert Mueller's probe.
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One, as a counterintelligence person, I'm thinking, 'That's crazy,' without any Americans being present, one.
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But the DIA has a problem—Soviet counterintelligence agents murdered their last pair of spies.
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Why it matters: "This is incredibly significant," said Asha Rangappa, a former FBI counterintelligence agent.
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On March 2, a disturbing report hit the desks of U.S. counterintelligence officials in Washington.
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Lindsey Graham, however, dismissed the need for a special prosecutor because it is "counterintelligence" investigation.
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Here is the point, a counterintelligence investigation is designed to protect American institutions from infiltration.
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Initially, FBI counterintelligence investigators saw the campaign as possible victims being targeted by Russian intelligence.
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The report also says FBI counterintelligence agents were conducting an investigation into the phone call.
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The criminal probe is the focus of his 448-page report—counterintelligence is hardly mentioned.
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Strzok was one of the FBI's top counterintelligence officials and helped lead the Russia probe.
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The special counsel ultimately may report findings of clear, compelling indicators of legitimate counterintelligence concern.
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Recent breaches and exploitations of the private sector illustrate the breadth of counterintelligence-related threats.
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Baker acknowledged it was not the normal way for counterintelligence evidence to enter the FBI.
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There are very specific rules governing the FBI's ability to initiate and conduct counterintelligence investigations.
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Here are eight signs pointing to a counterintelligence operation deployed against Trump for political reasons.
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But, he said, Comey would not have opened a counterintelligence investigation on a mere hunch.
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This was the genesis of an F.B.I. counterintelligence investigation, as the Nunes memo itself admits.
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Mr. Strzok had been considered one of the most experienced and trusted F.B.I. counterintelligence investigators.
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Since 2013, he said, the F.B.I.'s counterintelligence division had been running its own investigation.
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The informant was an American professor who had helped the F.B.I. with previous counterintelligence investigations.
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Officials called it one of the most serious recent counterintelligence cases they had seen. 7.
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One, and probably first and foremost, is the counterintelligence concerns that we have about blackmail.
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It is why the F.B.I. counterintelligence investigation, also quietly progressing in the background, is critical.
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Did you notify the president that he was not under counterintelligence investigation by the FBI?
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Strzok, the deputy assistant director of counterintelligence, was far from the most senior person involved.
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In spring last year, Mr. Strzok, the counterintelligence supervisor, reported to Mr. Comey that Mrs.
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I, on the other hand, say counterintelligence is right at the heart of our obligations.
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The F.B.I. began a counterintelligence investigation last July into Russian contacts with any Trump associates.
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The F.B.I. began a counterintelligence investigation last year into Russian contacts with any Trump associates.
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Montoya also served as the the Director of the Office of the National Counterintelligence Executive.
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And yet, since the 2016 campaign, Trump and his team's activities have heightened counterintelligence concerns.
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Or was it the proper extension of an FBI counterintelligence investigation into Trump and Russia?
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Little has changed since the Cold War for F.B.I. counterintelligence officers who track Russian spies.
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Counterintelligence is about finding out how America's foreign adversaries are conducting espionage, and preventing it.
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The FBI has been looking into Flynn for months as part of a counterintelligence investigation.
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" That evening, a special agent with the NSA's counterintelligence investigations wrote an email to others at counterintelligence, whose names were redacted: "It's going to need to be crystal clear that we denied having correspondence containing any complaints, not that we denied having any correspondence period.
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"We have an independent basis to want the counterintelligence information, after all of this began as a counterintelligence investigation, to determine, to find out whether the President or people in his campaign had been compromised in any way by a foreign power," Schiff said.
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There was never any evidence of collusion, there was no intelligence to support a counterintelligence probe.
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What they are saying is Peter Strozk opens this massive counterintelligence investigation against Trump&aposs campaign.
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He was the number two person and counterintelligence for the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation.
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Its primary roles include political, economic and counterintelligence, the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) explains.
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No one has given us paragraph one on why they started a counterintelligence investigation against Trump.
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As CNN's Manu Raju notes, the two lawmakers have different motivations for requesting Mueller's counterintelligence information.
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There were no crimes to justify criminal investigation, and no intelligence that justify the counterintelligence probe.
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But the FBI's mission includes counterterrorism and counterintelligence, organized crime, and a range of other responsibilities.
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It doesn't address at all the other half of the investigation, which is the counterintelligence investigation.
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It is a common practice, however, for the bureau to use confidential informants in counterintelligence investigations.
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Deception is a valuable counterintelligence tool for detection and acquiring threat intelligence for strengthening active defenses.
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Law enforcement insists the use of the informant was justified as part of a counterintelligence investigation.
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These include the growing counterintelligence risks posed by actions that aid and abet Russian intelligence operations.
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The Nunes memo does not dispute this point either, stating that Papadopoulos "triggered" the counterintelligence investigation.
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These are policy differences between duly elected presidential administrations, not of criminal or even counterintelligence interest.
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In a 3½-hour interview with the Justice Department's top counterintelligence officials on July 2, Mrs.
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The unit that Montgomery served in, X-2, is credited with establishing the modern counterintelligence community.
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She appears to have had no experience in anything related to the law, Russia, or counterintelligence.
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We went to the FBI, the FBI raised a concern because they work on counterintelligence matters.
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Were there facts sufficient, under the AGG, for the FBI to even initiate a counterintelligence case?
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Decades ago, as an enlisted soldier in the Soviet Army, he had worked for military counterintelligence.
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Once clicked, these ads direct to the website of the FBI's Washington Field Office Counterintelligence Program.
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The intelligence panel Warner sits on is conducting a separate counterintelligence investigation into Russian influence efforts.
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The purpose of a counterintelligence investigation is to stop spies, not find evidence of a crime.
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Poland's counterintelligence service confirmed on Friday that a Chinese citizen suspected of spying had been arrested.
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A top counterintelligence agent, Peter Strzok, exchanged the messages with Lisa Page, a senior F.B.I. lawyer.
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And again, was that statement to congressional leaders and to the president limited to counterintelligence investigations?
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At the White House, Mr. Trump shrugged off accusations of presidential interference in a counterintelligence investigation.
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From 22013 and 22013, Witt's work involved counterintelligence assignments that took her to the Middle East.
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In 2004, the C.I.A.'s director, Porter Goss, forced out career experts over a counterintelligence dispute.
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The Department of Energy's Office of Intelligence and Counterintelligence helps protect sensitive laboratories and nuclear facilities.
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It simply lists the departments he was posted to: the department for fighting counterrevolution; counterintelligence; countersabotage.
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FISA warrants involve the most closely held and strongly guarded secrets in American intelligence and counterintelligence.
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Counterintelligence investigations can last for years, and they rarely become public or lead to criminal charges.
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"When is the last time we had to work on a counterintelligence matter that's so public?"
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"Nothing about FEMA or cyber or counterintelligence," she added, referring to the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
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And Russian informants could still meet their C.I.A. handlers outside Russia, further from Moscow's counterintelligence apparatus.
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The agent, Peter Strzok, is considered one of the most experienced and trusted F.B.I. counterintelligence investigators.
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He added that the review could lead to new rules for counterintelligence investigations of political campaigns.
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"We have an independent basis to want the counterintelligence information after all of this began as a counterintelligence investigation to determine, to find out whether the President or people in his campaign had been compromised in any way by a foreign power," Schiff told CNN last week.
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"We have an independent basis to want the counterintelligence information after all of this began as a counterintelligence investigation to determine, to find out whether the president or people in his campaign had been compromised in any way by a foreign power," Schiff told CNN last week.
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Poland's counterintelligence agency has arrested and charged an employee of Chinese tech giant Huawei over spying allegations.
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Was it a counterintelligence investigation where they were worried about Russia trying to penetrate the Trump campaign?
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But it was discovered Page exchanged scores of anti-Trump texts with FBI counterintelligence agent Peter Strzok.
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The Estonian counterintelligence agency KAPO identified Minasyan as the supervisor of the Estonian Sputnik office in 2015.
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Former counterintelligence officials have pointed out that the case is larger than Butina or the Trump campaign.
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Those will cover the intelligence community's 2017 assessment of Russian interference and the committee's final counterintelligence findings.
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A similar May 22 agreement gave the House Intelligence Committee access to counterintelligence materials underlying Mueller's report.
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He assigned the case to the counterintelligence section, which investigates cases of alleged mishandling of classified information.
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Evidence points to at least one group of hackers that is familiar to US counterintelligence, officials said.
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It&aposs really the second -- almost the second because it started as a counterintelligence investigation under Comey.
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The United States on July 11 announced new sanctions on Venezuela's military counterintelligence agency following Acosta's death.
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The FBI, which is responsible for counterintelligence efforts in the US, would not comment for the story.
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You can't be the director of counterintelligence and have your secretary be married to a K.G.B. agent.
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FBI Counterintelligence Division Assistant Director E.W. "Bill" Priestap said that Russia must feel consequences of its actions.
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Generally speaking, there's nothing unusual about federal investigators using informants in a major criminal and counterintelligence case.
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Such a move never would have been considered by experienced FBI counterintelligence agents operating in field offices.
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The House Homeland Security Committee holds a hearing on Counterintelligence and Insider Threats at 2628:28500 a.m.
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Obama administration officials have said the FBI's use of an informant in counterintelligence investigations is not unusual.
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Strzok was one of the FBI's top counterintelligence agents supervising the investigation of Clinton's controversial email problems.
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Normally, evidence in any FBI case — and especially in counterintelligence cases — is handled by front-line agents.
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This is a career counterintelligence agent who is concerned that this investigation will not lead to impeachment.
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The key to understanding Mueller's investigation is remembering that first and foremost, it is a counterintelligence investigation.
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Officials thought of it, rather, in the context of the underlying counterintelligence purpose of the Russia investigation.
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But American counterintelligence agents and federal prosecutors have investigated the company on national security grounds for years.
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Counterintelligence investigators had to consider whether the president's own actions constituted a possible threat to national security.
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Most important, we should keep in mind that Mr. Mueller was hired to lead a counterintelligence investigation.
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A counterintelligence expert said her reports would have helped Russian intelligence "spot and assess" potential American recruits.
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"It's all part of the same effort," said Frank Montoya Jr., a former top F.B.I. counterintelligence official.
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Again, were you limiting that statement to counterintelligence investigations, or more broadly, such as a criminal investigation?
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The F.B.I. began investigating him, along with three other Trump associates, as part of the counterintelligence inquiry.
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He also announced that the F.B.I. had created a new counterintelligence unit to specialize in such cases.
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The timing of the legislation is driven by the March 15 expiration of three counterintelligence investigation powers.
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Clinton's use of a private email server but kept secret their counterintelligence investigation into the Trump campaign.
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Vil Mirzayanov, the former chemist, was the head of the technical counterintelligence department in the Soviet era.
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Now, the F.B.I. must certify that the information is "relevant" to a terrorism, counterintelligence or leak investigation.
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Frank Figliuzzi, a former assistant F.B.I. director for counterintelligence, is a national security analyst for NBC News.
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Frank Figliuzzi, a former assistant F.B.I. director for counterintelligence, is a national security analyst for NBC News.
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The F.B.I. and the C.I.A. opened a joint investigation run by top counterintelligence officials at both agencies.
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The surveillance of Page is believed to have been a factor in launching the federal counterintelligence probe.
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Lindsey Graham told reporters that afternoon, "I'm perfectly OK with a counterintelligence investigation" as a general matter.
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And those regulations are about law enforcement, at a time when the daily disclosures are about counterintelligence.
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FBI Director Comey, Deputy Director [Andrew] McCabe, [Peter] Strzok, the head of counterintelligence, [Lisa] Page, his girlfriend.
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The revelation about the earlier F.B.I. counterintelligence investigation prompted Republicans to renew their criticism of the bureau.
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Separately, a former U.S. Air Force counterintelligence agent was charged with espionage after she defected to Iran.
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Although counterintelligence cases rarely receive attention, the issue is considered the F.B.I.'s top priority after counterterrorism.
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The FBI reported in December that the Russian photo-editing app FaceApp is a potential counterintelligence threat.
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"As I look at the landscape today and over the course of my career... the Chinese counterintelligence threat is more deep, more diverse, more vexing, more challenging, more comprehensive and more concerning than any counterintelligence threat I can think of," FBI Director Christopher Wray told the Senate Intelligence Committee.
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"As I look at the landscape today and over the course of my career ... the Chinese counterintelligence threat is more deep, more diverse, more vexing, more challenging, more comprehensive and more concerning than any counterintelligence threat I can think of," FBI Director Christopher Wray told the Senate Intelligence Committee.
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Counterintelligence requires intelligence With special counsel Robert Mueller's counterintelligence investigation into Russian election interference still underway, we have a constant reminder that campaign officials and government employees are prime targets for recruitment by foreign intelligence services; they have access to important information and potential influence over policy decisions.
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The counterintelligence investigation was opened in July 2016, and Stone met Greenberg two months before that, in May.
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"As a longtime counterintelligence investigator it makes the hair stand on the back of my neck," Montoya said.
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The committee hasn't conducted additional interviews though as it has turned its attention to obtaining Mueller's counterintelligence information.
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Welcome to the super-secret world of the Counterintelligence Division, home to the spy catchers of the FBI.
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Rudolph W. Giuliani, Trump's personal lawyer and the former mayor of New York City, dismissed the counterintelligence effort.
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McCallion says FBI counterintelligence agents in February or March asked questions about some of Giuliani's Ukrainian business dealings.
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The two had been under surveillance by Portuguese counterintelligence officers and other Western spy services for some time.
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In his telling, rather than being a liar whose dishonesty impeded a legitimate counterintelligence investigation, he's a patsy.
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His character, who works for the counterintelligence division of the FBI, will be introduced in the eighth episode.
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A former Soviet counterintelligence officer and current Russian-American lobbyist also attended the meeting, according to NBC News.
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It remains unclear, however, if Mueller is still pursuing the counterintelligence aspect as part of his ongoing probe.
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FBI counterintelligence agent Peter Strzok , who interviewed Flynn, was fired a year later over anti-Trump text messages.
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His growing disillusionment is clear, and he seems to have no real ideological stake left in counterintelligence work.
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The CIA's Counterintelligence Mission Center is working with the FBI to probe the extent of Russian election interference.
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Congress and the White House are already planning to work with CFIUS, per National Counterintelligence Executive William Evanina.
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McClatchy confirmed with two people familiar with the inquiry that the FBI's Counterintelligence Division is driving the investigation.
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Asha Rangappa is a former Special Agent in the Counterintelligence Division of the FBI in New York City.
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Nor do Trump stalwarts commend the intelligence community for the good things it does (counterintelligence, counterterrorism, and counterproliferation).
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Oddity No. 3: The interview results reflected on the 85033 seem untethered from the Russia collusion counterintelligence investigation.
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In the world of intelligence and counterintelligence, countries typically don't reveal to their adversaries what they have uncovered.
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Strzok, an expert in the field of counterintelligence, had played a leading role in the Hillary Clinton investigation.
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"The shutdown has eliminated any ability to operate," an agent working undercover counterintelligence cases said in the report.
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Benczkowski's nomination was controversial because of his work for Alfa Bank, which has been scrutinized by FBI counterintelligence.
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Second: Mueller was given a mandate to conduct a counterintelligence investigation based on that which the FBI started.
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Flynn might be to our counterintelligence investigation, we don't believe it's our place today to offer him immunity.
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"It is absolutely unprecedented," said former FBI Special Agent Frank Montoya, who has extensive experience in counterintelligence matters.
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With over 110 million downloads in the U.S. alone, TikTok is a potential counterintelligence threat we cannot ignore.
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He retired from the G.R.U. in 1999 and was arrested by Russian counterintelligence agents in 2004 for espionage.
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The document includes more than 25 recommendations related to elections and cybersecurity, counterintelligence practices and campaign finance rules.
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Counterintelligence agents prefer to catch a suspected spy in the act of passing secrets to a foreign power.
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"The Papadopoulos information triggered the opening of an FBI counterintelligence investigation in late July 2016," the memo reads.
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No charges were filed at that time, even as Lee was the subject of an intense counterintelligence investigation.
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A veteran F.B.I. counterintelligence agent, Charles McGonigal, was assigned to run it, former American law enforcement officials said.
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That's even though the FBI's mission includes counterterrorism and counterintelligence, organized crime, and a range of other responsibilities.
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But American counterintelligence agents and federal prosecutors have for some time explored possible cases against the company's leadership.
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And there is something of a wild card: The F.B.I. has an open-ended counterintelligence investigation into Russia.
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After attending military training schools he became an investigator and bureau chief in the Romanian army's counterintelligence services.
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Government officials have said the charges against Ms. Butina stemmed from a counterintelligence investigation predating the 2016 election.
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What (ph) — the context was counterintelligence, but I wasn't trying to hide some criminal investigation of the president.
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Part of this response will rely on counterintelligence efforts by the very same agencies under the microscope today.
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Asha Rangappa is a former special agent in the Counterintelligence Division of the FBI in New York City.
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Last year CNN reported that investigators were looking at Giuliani's finances and also had opened a counterintelligence investigation.
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The counterintelligence investigation was properly launched and without any signs of political bias or agenda, concluded the report.
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One would hope that counterintelligence efforts to monitor those students while in the United States would be robust.
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The Obama administration's drone attacks and counterintelligence operations did significantly damage the infrastructure of al Qaeda and ISIS.
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Moreover, Hill said that he's been a dangerous presence for months based on the counterintelligence risks he presented.
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" He added that he had "notified my chain of command and the appropriate counterintelligence folks about the offer.
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Their fixation on the C.I.A. led investigators to focus on Brian J. Kelley, a longtime C.I.A. counterintelligence officer.
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Having conducted counterintelligence investigations, I can attest that not everything a foreign intelligence service does is necessarily illegal.
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Additionally, many of Area 51's counterintelligence efforts are focused on examining and reverse-engineering foreign air technology.
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Government officials called the Air Force counterintelligence agent "Wayward Storm," but her real name was Monica Elfriede Witt.
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Somewhat separately, the FBI confirmed the existence of an open counterintelligence investigation dealing with members of Trump's campaign.
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Look at Professor Calabresi&aposs article just a few days ago about his question whether there should even be an investigation because of the fact that they switched over from counterintelligence to criminal, and we don&apost -- I want to know, did they get in the evidence in that counterintelligence probe?
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The FBI's counterintelligence investigation of the Trump campaign actually started in July 2016, before the Steele dossier even existed.
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But Latvia's internal counterintelligence and security service, known by the acronym DP, said that according to its information, Baltnews.
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Military counterintelligence agency DCGIM held the officers incommunicado for more than a week, in violation of regulations, she said.
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SOLOMON: Yes, and to be honest with you, I&aposve covered a lot of counterintelligence investigations over 22018 years.
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On the other hand, remember at the time this was going on, the FBI was conducting a counterintelligence investigation.
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The big picture: Chairman Adam Schiff is actively seeking more information about the counterintelligence aspects of the Mueller investigation.
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The New York Times reports that FBI counterintelligence investigations can take years and don't often lead to criminal charges.
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On this day, there was also a group of FBI cyber and counterintelligence analysts and investigators watching social media.
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Why it matters: Strzok "is considered one of the most experienced and trusted FBI counterintelligence investigators," per the Times.
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And, uh, how much longer can Stan possibly keep his job in counterintelligence, given all the feathers he's ruffled?
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FBI Counterintelligence Division Assistant Director Bill Priestap laid out in his opening statements what Russia's end game was: power.
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Reuters reported the counterintelligence work is probing links between Russian individuals and companies and others with links to Trump.
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In a 113 letter, the head of Soviet counterintelligence recommended invoking suspects' "family and personal ties" during interrogation sessions.
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Among other things, he also revealed that some members of Trump's inner circle are still subjects of counterintelligence investigations.
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The first group is particularly well known to the F.B.I.'s counterintelligence unit, the C.I.A. and other intelligence agencies.
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The story of the FBI counterintelligence investigation into Trump was broken on Friday evening by The New York Times.
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Former Obama administration officials have said it was not unusual for the FBI to use informants in counterintelligence investigations.
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The Ministry of State Security is China's intelligence and security agency, responsible for counterintelligence, foreign intelligence and political security.
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In May of 2010, Lamo reported the confession to US Army counterintelligence, the chat logs were published by Wired.
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They just wander the zombie wasteland, trying to find their contacts while counterintelligence teams lurk behind walls and monuments.
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The counterintelligence methods used by the F.B.I. are common — and were a legitimate response to reports of Russian interference.
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Investigators want to talk with at least one senior counterintelligence official and a senior C.I.A. analyst, the people said.
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But the trip was one of the triggers of a counterintelligence investigation begun by the F.B.I. later that month.
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But I think it's important to understand what basis there was for launching counterintelligence activities against a political campaign.
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He was placed in charge of counterintelligence in 1977 and named chief of the State Security Department in 1987.
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One year later, a Soviet counterintelligence agency abducted Mr. Wallenberg on suspicion of espionage and brought him to Moscow.
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But the government is now considering new limits on campaign contributions, restrictions on foreign investments and tougher counterintelligence laws.
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Attorney General Christian Porter told Parliament that the new laws represented the most significant counterintelligence overhaul since the 1970s.
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COLLINS: Did you limit that statement to counterintelligence investigations, or were you talking about any kind of FBI investigation?
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As the counterintelligence and counterterrorism branches were built up, a shifting power structure inside the agency began to develop.
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The F.B.I.'s position is that it does not discuss counterintelligence investigations that could compromise important methods and sources.
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The call is the latest example of how Mr. Trump's advisers have come under scrutiny from American counterintelligence officials.
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So you see that enduring threat on the counterintelligence side, it is just now newly weaponized by cyber techniques.
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He did not, but even if he had, a counterintelligence investigation is not a proceeding that can be obstructed.
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And then the other guy over here, who does it for counterintelligence or law enforcement purposes, is Jim Comey.
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Barr also told NBC News this was the first time that "counterintelligence techniques" were used against a presidential campaign.
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Counterintelligence — spy catching, as the professionals call it when not testifying before congressional committees — is a game played long.
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The potential for foreign agents to pose as guests raises serious counterintelligence concerns for the President and his family.
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Robert Mueller is thus in the midst of the most important and delicate counterintelligence investigation in modern American history.
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Prosecutors said that she searched Facebook accounts for Americans and created "target packages" for Iran against American counterintelligence officials.
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The case began when Russian counterintelligence investigators seized several leading cybersecurity officials in raids conducted in early December 2016.
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"This investigation began in late July, so for counterintelligence investigation, that's a fairly short period of time," he said.
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Strzok was formerly the FBI's deputy assistant director of the counterintelligence division, and Page was a senior FBI attorney.
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The request includes "[s]uggested training materials" — provided by the National Counterintelligence and Security Center — that include the 18-minute C-SPAN video of Attorney General Jeff Sessions' August news conference about leaks and a six-minute Fox News video of an interview with the National Counterintelligence and Security Center's director, William Evanina.
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A Republican National Committee official confirmed to CNN that its technical staff had received a counterintelligence briefing from the FBI.
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All of the things suggest that they aren&apost going by their normal training, their normal behavior as counterintelligence agents.
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In recent months, dozens of active and retired military officers have been detained by Venezuelan counterintelligence officers on treason charges.
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Schiff said Democrats on his committee have questions about the counterintelligence portion of the investigation and the prosecutorial decisions made.
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And of course, Peter Strzok deputy head of counterintelligence demoted and a couple of days ago escorted from the FBI.
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"As with any counterintelligence investigation, this will also include an assessment of whether any crimes were committed," Comey's statement added.
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As CNN reported last month, US counterintelligence agents monitoring Kislyak discovered that Flynn had been in contact with the ambassador.
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" The memo is clear, however, that information about Papadopoulos "triggered the opening of an FBI counterintelligence investigation in July 2016.
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In 403, he changed the DIM's name to include the term "counterintelligence," reflecting its mission to thwart sabotage from within.
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And at one point Strzok says, "The White House is running this," meaning the counterintelligence investigation into the Trump campaign.
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" House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff also announced that his committee has invited Mueller "to testify on the counterintelligence investigation.
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It appears to confirm the NYT's scoop — which was that the counterintelligence investigation began BEFORE the FISA applications against Page.
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"President Trump is not a target or subject to a criminal investigation or counterintelligence investigation regarding colluding with the Russians."
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U.S. counterintelligence agents investigated national security adviser Michael Flynn's communications with Russian officials, The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday night.
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According to The New York Times, Akhmetshin has bragged about his counterintelligence work for a special division of the KGB.
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When ex-FBI Director James Comey publicly confirmed the investigation in March, he referred to it as a counterintelligence investigation.
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The FBI is also investigating Russia's alleged interference, including any possible Trump campaign links, as part of its counterintelligence mission.
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The FBI routinely uses confidential informants in counterintelligence investigations, and there is no public evidence of wrongdoing by the bureau.
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The top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee has invited FBI counterintelligence agent Peter Strzok to appear before the panel.
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"There are more secrets in Silicon Valley than there are in Washington, D.C." Former FBI counterintelligence operative Eric O'Neill agrees.
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China: The intelligence officials said they believe China currently poses the most dangerous and complex counterintelligence threat to the nation.
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The agents told him they were from Squad NS-34, a counterintelligence unit based in the Washington Metropolitan Field Office.
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U.S. intelligence leaders said Tuesday they believe China currently poses the most dangerous and complex counterintelligence threat to the nation.
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A separate report from NBC News stated that an unnamed former Soviet counterintelligence officer was in the Trump Jr. meeting.
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Unfortunately, the U.S. government efforts remain ill-aligned to implement effective counterintelligence against the current and shifting legion of threats.
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The data, which goes back to 1985, was gathered so that American counterintelligence officers could assess employees' vulnerability to blackmail.
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Comey told lawmakers that the FBI launched its Russia counterintelligence investigation into four individuals, and not the Trump campaign itself.
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There was no fault to the FBI checking whether Trump was compromised by Russia; that is a classic counterintelligence responsibility.
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In 2011, he changed the DIM's name to include the term "counterintelligence," reflecting its mission to thwart sabotage from within.
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Schiff has also issued a subpoena for Mueller's report, underlying evidence and the counterintelligence and foreign intelligence materials he generated.
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Schiff has signaled particular interest in examining Mueller's counterintelligence findings related to Trump and his campaign in the Russia investigation.
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"Russia conducts counterintelligence activity against those who are suspected of espionage, this is done on a regular basis," he added.
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Neither ethical issues and personal business goals nor criminal activity and counterintelligence concerns should impact a president's decision-making process.
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Page reportedly worked for McCabe, who certainly also had frequent contact with Strzok -- again, the FBI's No. 2 counterintelligence agent.
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Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein then authorized an Inspector General probe into the FBI's use of FISA for counterintelligence operations.
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Officials described the man as an experienced spy, who, like his colleagues, was trained to recognize signs of counterintelligence operations.
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The emails will be reviewed by the same counterintelligence team in Washington that handled the Clinton investigation from the beginning.
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As the No. 2 official in counterintelligence, Strzok was considered to be one of the bureau's top experts on Russia.
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ODNI didn't reply, but National Counterintelligence and Security Center Director William Evanina issued a statement on the subject on Monday.
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Peter Strzok, the F.B.I. senior counterintelligence agent who disparaged Mr. Trump in text messages, was fired for violating F.B.I. policies.
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Many of the agents will work on the Foreign Influence Task Force, a group of cyber, counterintelligence and criminal experts.
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From 20033 to 1955 he served in the Army, including a stint with a counterintelligence unit on the Korean Peninsula.
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Mr. Pompeo said the agency was conducting counterintelligence collection, which can include developing informants and penetrating computers overseas, officials said.
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I thought it was fair to say what was literally true: There is not a counterintelligence investigation of Mr. Trump.
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"It was a counterintelligence investigation before now," Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, said after he exited the briefing.
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Witt, 39, also "created target packages for use by Iran" against US government agents and counterintelligence officers, the indictment alleges.
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However, the FBI maintains a critical and ongoing responsibility to address counterintelligence issues, Russian issues, all things of that nature.
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This is because at its core, Mueller's investigation is at least as much a counterintelligence investigation as a criminal one.
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After Army Language School, he worked as a counterintelligence officer in France, where, he said, he began his real education.
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The paid advertisements, which are partially in Russian, just so happen to direct interested parties to the FBI's counterintelligence program.
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US counterintelligence officials are scrutinizing one of Ivanka Trump's international business deals, according to two sources familiar with the matter.
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Generally, United States attorneys directly oversee criminal investigations, working with the head of the National Security Division in counterintelligence matters.
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"Russia's goal is to weaken Western countries by polarizing the debate," said Daniel Stenling, the Swedish Security Service's counterintelligence chief.
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At the time, F.B.I. counterintelligence agents believed charging Mr. Assange would deter him from posting new troves of American documents.
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Robert Mueller's investigation is a federal investigation that is proceeding on two tracks: a counterintelligence track and a criminal track.
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Red flag alert White House officials and the President should spend their time mitigating counterintelligence risks -- not adding to them.
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In addition to Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya, NBC reported that a former Soviet counterintelligence officer attended the June 2016 meeting.
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The memo confirms that Trump foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos, not Page, provided the impetus for opening the counterintelligence investigation.
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We know, from authoritative public statements of American intelligence and counterintelligence officials, that Russia clearly interfered in our election campaign.
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Shortly afterward, at the end of July, the FBI officially opened its counterintelligence investigation into Trump campaign aides' Russia ties.
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"Russia's goal is to weaken Western countries by polarizing the debate," said Daniel Stenling, the Swedish Security Service's counterintelligence chief.
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He finished two semesters before being drafted into the Army, eventually receiving counterintelligence training and serving in American-occupied Japan.
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Also on Wednesday, an indictment on a former United States Air Force counterintelligence agent, Monica Elfriede Witt, was made public.
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The Papadopoulos information triggered the opening of an FBI counterintelligence investigation in late July 2016 by FBI agent Pete Strzok.
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Ostensibly, the program was used for national security purposes — to prevent terrorism, investigate cyber attacks, and perform other counterintelligence operations.
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He had already been transferred away from counterintelligence to a quiet posting in the human resources division as a punishment.
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Barr has already announced he's launched an investigation into the origins of the FBI's counterintelligence investigation of the Trump campaign.
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"Provocations against NATO units in Lithuania will continue and will get bigger," Remigijus Baltrenas, head of Lithuanian military counterintelligence, told reporters.
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Especially after FBI Director James Comey made it clear in public testimony that he's conducting a counterintelligence investigation looking into it.
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The Ministry of State Security is China's intelligence and security agency and is responsible for counterintelligence, foreign intelligence and political security.
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I mean, it&aposs one thing to lie even in a criminal case, another thing to lie in a counterintelligence probe.
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Government officials told the broadcaster senior FBI counterintelligence officers gave Trump and Hillary Clinton briefings once they became their parties' nominees.
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A congressional inquiry involving Weisselberg would be fundamentally different from the law enforcement and counterintelligence inquiry Robert Mueller has been undertaking.
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Why doesn&apost the president ask his director of National Intelligence, Dan Coats, to look into the counterintelligence side of this?
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Barr is expected to make broad redactions to hide counterintelligence information, grand jury testimony, and ongoing investigations by other federal prosecutors.
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Gorka has been accused of exaggerating his intelligence bona fides, and his bid for security clearance was rejected by Hungarian counterintelligence.
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He also worked for the National Counterintelligence Center, which is responsible for collecting, monitoring, and analyzing information on potential terrorist threats.
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" She also asks if when FBI told congressional leadership Trump wasn't under investigation, his remarks were limited to a "counterintelligence investigation.
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So now you&aposre taking information from the State Department, you&aposre opening up a counterintelligence investigation into a political campaign.
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Both CIA and FBI that started this counterintelligence effort based on the idea that Russia was interfering in an ongoing election.
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Strzok, a veteran counterintelligence investigator, was recently ousted from Mueller's all-star team probing alleged Russian interference in the 2016 election.
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Murdoch, who kept her married name after divorcing Newscorp CEO Rupert Murdoch in 2013, has been on counterintelligence radars for years.
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When he later discovered that Angleton had preserved the diary, Bradlee said he took it back from the CIA counterintelligence chief.
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He was captured with handwritten notebooks on creating explosives and poisons and information about communications and leadership in a counterintelligence unit.
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The bill would also give the intelligence community six months to report on the counterintelligence threat posed by Russian money-laundering.
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An FBI counterintelligence investigation into whether his campaign and associates coordinated with Russia to influence the 2016 election looms over everything.
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The added problem with using a counterintelligence operation is that it is easier to launch and conceal than a criminal investigation.
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Trump is the first president in history under an FBI counterintelligence investigation, and likely under a criminal obstruction of justice probe.
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Counterintelligence agent Peter Strzok was fired in August after facing criticism for sending critical texts about Trump during the 2016 campaign.
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There he found himself buttonholed by the veteran counterintelligence supervisor who had headed the long-in-coming apprehension of Rick Ames.
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They actually launched a counterintelligence investigation to determine if the president of the United States of America is a foreign agent.
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Two of those of those officials, counterintelligence agent Peter Strzok and former FBI lawyer Lisa Page, were called out by name.
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Warner said the committee is looking to speak to Mueller and review his report's underlying counterintelligence information before concluding its probe.
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Hicks met with senior FBI counterintelligence agents at least twice after Trump took office, according to The New York Times report.
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FBI counterintelligence agent Peter Strzok was escorted from the building amid an internal review of his conduct, his lawyer confirmed Tuesday.
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" Trump on the NYT article about the FBI counterintelligence investigation: "I think it's the most insulting thing I've ever been asked.
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The bureau, Nunes has alleged, never had enough information to open a counterintelligence investigation into the campaign in the first place.
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US counterintelligence investigators -- whose priority is to root out foreign agents like Butina -- will surely interrogate her about her Russian associates.
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The FBI under J. Edgar Hoover, Goldsmith notes, had a history of misusing its counterintelligence functions to quietly shape public policy.
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Mueller in his opening remarks before the House Intelligence Committee said that his investigative team shared counterintelligence information with the FBI.
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Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein on Thursday told senators that the FBI's Russia probe is both a criminal and counterintelligence investigation.
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The newspaper reported the inquiry is the third publicly known investigation focused on the FBI's counterintelligence probe of the Trump campaign.
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The FBI declined to comment, but has said its counterintelligence investigation didn't begin until July 2016, two months after the meeting.
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MI5, the U.K.'s domestic counterintelligence agency, revealed in October of 2017 that it had 20,000 people on its counterterrorism radar.
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By then the FBI had noticed what counterintelligence agents thought was a series of odd connections between Trump associates and Russia.
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American intelligence and counterintelligence officials have made it known that Russia is engaging in an aggressive campaign to disrupt the election.
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The "secret society" text message was sent from FBI lawyer Lisa Page to former FBI counterintelligence Deputy Assistant director Peter Strzok.
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Second, he wants to improve "internal mechanisms" for counterintelligence, to be "as clever and innovative as the enemies we face" (okay).
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The U.S. Treasury said it would freeze all assets directly or indirectly owned by the General Directorate of Military Counterintelligence (DGCIM).
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It's unclear exactly how much information was leaked, but counterintelligence operations spotted the mole and outed him at the last second.
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Britain's domestic counterintelligence agency MI5 foiled a terror plot to assassinate British Prime Minister Theresa May, the Met Police revealed Wednesday.
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The official, Ezra Cohen-Watnick, will play an important role at the Justice Department, advising Mr. Sessions on counterintelligence and counterterrorism.
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As The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday, Page has been on the radar of counterintelligence agents since at least 2013.
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Investigators want to question at least one senior counterintelligence official and a senior analyst, according to people briefed on the matter.
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In "What Every Body Says" former FBI agent Joe Navarro explains his knowledge of body language after his career in counterintelligence.
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Other people in the counterintelligence field have criticized him as a hack who's never published any articles in peer-reviewed journals.
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But it is unclear when and whether F.B.I. counterintelligence agents learned all the details of his multiple contacts with Chinese spies.
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The missing piece of the report is a counterintelligence investigation that should set off alarm bells about our democracy and security.
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Claiming that he was working for Ukrainian counterintelligence, he said he had known perfectly well that there would be no killing.
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Counterintelligence surveillance of any American, let alone one connected to a presidential campaign, should have been handled with the utmost precision.
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Mr. Flynn lied to the F.B.I. In that moment, the counterintelligence case became a criminal case focusing on the White House.
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"I had the gravest concerns about Kaspersky, and anyone who worked on Russia or in counterintelligence shared those concerns," he said.
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Dennis has indeed been working away down in Counterintelligence, and we learned along with Stan that the Big Break has occurred.
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The goal was never to conduct a legitimate counterintelligence investigation; it was to inflict political damage against a duly elected president.
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There is no public evidence that the FBI's use of a confidential informant — common in counterintelligence and criminal investigations — was improper.
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Henley said that the group that Jacobs alleged stole trade secrets is now focused on counterintelligence to protect Uber from rivals.
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Vindman said he repeatedly rejected Danyliuk's entreaties, and notified his "chain of command and the appropriate counterintelligence folks" about the proposal.
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He counted 14 meetings with counterintelligence officers from the F.S.B. When they asked if he wanted anything, Mr. Berg said McDonald's.
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Counterintelligence investigations are conducted jointly by the C.I.A. and the F.B.I., with support from other agencies like the National Security Agency.
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As the Horowitz report makes clear, the FBI broke no rules and showed no favoritism in pursuing the counterintelligence probe. 6.
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That's why they have historically been thoroughly vetted and investigated and also why the staff gets regular security and counterintelligence briefings.
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The Senate Intelligence Committee is running its own inquiry, and the F.B.I. has carried out a broad counterintelligence investigation since July.
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Evidently, F.B.I. counterintelligence agents were alarmed when they read the wiretap transcripts of Mr. Flynn's Christmastime chats with the Russian ambassador.
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The data could only be used for "authorized foreign intelligence and counterintelligence purposes," he added, and not for law enforcement purposes.
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Schiff said Tuesday that he had made a formal request for his committee to obtain the counterintelligence materials from Mueller's investigation.
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On Wednesday, FBI Director Christopher Wray said China, from a counterintelligence perspective, represents the broadest and most significant threat America faces.
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Given those facts, experts say it would have been irresponsible not to launch a counterintelligence probe that targeted Papadopoulos and Page.
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You saw, despite what the President said, act of fact-based, you had the nation's counterintelligence executive answer would you buy?
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One is a straightforward counterintelligence work of trying to detect and then stop foreign intelligence operations — in this case, Russian ones.
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"The committee has an independent constitutional duty and express statutory right to examine the intelligence and counterintelligence information gathered by the Special Counsel's Office, assess the counterintelligence and national security implications and formulate appropriate remedies in response," states the letter, which was sent to Attorney General William Barr, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and FBI Director William Wray.
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As the head of the FBI counterintelligence division, he held a pivotal leadership position in both the Clinton and Russia probes and was in a supervisory position over counterintelligence agent Peter Strzok, whose text messages criticizing Trump and other political figures during the 2016 presidential race have been the focus of a maelstrom of scrutiny from the right.
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"The president's efforts to make money from a real estate project in Moscow and to conceal the transaction from the public are a quintessential example of a counterintelligence nightmare, that may or may not include criminal activity," House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) said during a public hearing on the counterintelligence implications of special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation.
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FBI counterintelligence agents are also examining financial transactions by Russian individuals and companies who are believed to have links to Trump associates.
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And we learned that seven days before he was put in charge of a counterintelligence investigation, this whole Russia-Trump collusion thing.
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The Journal, citing sources, said it was not clear if the counterintelligence inquiry produced any incriminating evidence or if it is continuing.
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JOHN SOLOMON, "THE HILL": In counterintelligence, one of the most important things for agents to avoid is what&aposs called circular reporting.
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And here&aposs the problem -- the case that was being turned over to Bob Mueller at that time was a counterintelligence investigation.
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However, if one were to assume it was real, it would show that "Russian counterintelligence is in total disarray," he pointed out.
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House committees led by Democrats have issued subpoenas on a range of issues, demanding financial records and counterintelligence information, among other requests.
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Another client of his, Michael Beck, a former National Security Agency counterintelligence officer, was the subject of a recent 60 Minutes report.
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In an interview with 260 Minutes, McCabe confirmed that he had opened a counterintelligence investigation into whether Trump was compromised by Russia.
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It could also represent another as-yet-unknown unfolding criminal case or could be a counterintelligence investigation that will never become public.
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Those working in counterintelligence said the shutdown was affecting their ability to collect national security intelligence provided to policymakers, including the president.
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FBI counterintelligence is still investigating Flynn, to see if Russia had any improper influence over him during his time in the administration.
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Strzok is a veteran counterintelligence agent who was assigned to both the investigation into Clinton's emails and Mueller's probe into possible collusion.
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The FBI under Comey opened the counterintelligence investigation into Russian meddling and potential collusion in July 2016, way before Mueller came onboard.
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The latest update came Friday when it emerged a former Soviet counterintelligence officer and current Russian-American lobbyist also attended the meeting.
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In fact, Israel is considered the US's number one counterintelligence threat in the Middle East, according to an AP report from 2012.
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Since July, the FBI has been conducting a counterintelligence investigation into Russia's interference in the election and possible coordination with Trump associates.
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"There are very few agencies of any kind that don't have some sort of intelligence or counterintelligence role," the official told CNN.
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Rosenstein reportedly confirmed that the FBI's probe of Russian meddling in the 2016 race is now both a criminal and counterintelligence investigation.
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The IJO wing of the group is "responsible for the planning, preparation and execution of intelligence, counterintelligence and terrorist activities," officials said.
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There has not been a dip in morale among officials in the U.S. intelligence community, according to a top U.S. counterintelligence official.
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Those omissions relate to the counterintelligence portion of the probe Mueller inherited as special counsel after Trump fired FBI Director James Comey.
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The final investigation in Washington is doing counterintelligence work and looking into leads from informants and foreign communications surrounding the hacking allegations.
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As we have repeatedly pointed out, and as former director Comey stated in congressional testimony, the FBI is conducting a counterintelligence investigation.
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While seeking the suspect in the Tylenol case, Mr. Walton transferred counterintelligence agents without permission to flood Midtown Manhattan with wanted posters.
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His first assignment was in the Chicago Field Office, where he focused largely on counterintelligence cases and deployed to Iraq in 2004.
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Counterintelligence experts and DHS officials have conceded that the technology could pose privacy and national security concerns if employed by foreign adversaries.
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Nunes has dismissed the FBI's criticism and accused agents of running a counterintelligence operation off of unverified information during the 2016 election.
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The meeting took place in the early days of the bureau's counterintelligence investigation into Russian efforts to meddle in the presidential election.
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But proving someone took those actions to benefit a foreign government often requires complex counterintelligence investigations, which experts say could take years.
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According to documents and government interviews, one of the FBI's most senior counterintelligence agents visited London the first week of May 2628.
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In response to another question by Krishnamoorthi, Mueller said that the goal of the counterintelligence investigation was "secondary" to his criminal investigation.
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Comey also told the panel that the FBI launched its Russia counterintelligence investigation into four individuals and not the Trump campaign itself.
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The FBI's counterintelligence team is reportedly handling the investigation, which is also currently examining whether Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election.
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But a top counterintelligence official on Thursday hit back at those reports, claiming Trump's feud with the intelligence community hasn't hurt morale.
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We know very little, for example, about the role of the counterintelligence investigation that was taking place contemporaneous with the criminal probe.
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But by late July 2016, just weeks after he first contacted the FBI, the formal counterintelligence probe was opened, the sources said.
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"Managed clandestine operations related to counterterrorism, counterinsurgency, energy, political stability, and counterintelligence, while serving mostly in hostile environments," his LinkedIn biography says.
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Chiefly that the FBI had opened a counterintelligence investigation into whether the Trump campaign conspired with Russia to influence the U.S. election.
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FBI counterintelligence agent Peter Strzok is sworn in during a joint meeting of the House Judiciary and Oversight and Government Reform committees.
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The FBI opened its counterintelligence investigation into the Trump campaign's ties to Russia back in July 2016 — during the presidential campaign itself.
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In recent years, intelligence agencies have begun to bolster the five-year reviews with "continuous evaluation," said Mr. Evanina, the counterintelligence chief.
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As a result, Barr's interest in further investigating the origins of the FBI's counterintelligence probe is welcome news to Trump and Republicans.
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Counterintelligence experts and intelligence officials have long been divided over the cause of the collapse of the C.I.A.'s network in China.
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Counterintelligence agents and federal prosecutors began exploring possible cases against Huawei's leadership in 260, according to a former federal law enforcement official.
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Chinese espionage has been one of the top concerns for the Justice Department's national security division and the F.B.I.'s counterintelligence division.
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He rose quickly through its ranks, earning a reputation within the bureau as one of its most savvy and reliable counterintelligence agents.
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Counterintelligence experts say that uncovering what occurred during an event like the 2016 election could take years, if not decades, to understand.
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Multiple memos from Mueller's interviews with counterintelligence investigation targets including Paul Manafort, Carter Page and George Papadopoulos were released by the deadline.
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The FBI gets involved in PNGs because it monitors foreign intelligence activity in the United States as part of its counterintelligence mandate.
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McCabe said in interviews that the counterintelligence investigation was spurred by Trump's bizarre public statements and comments -- not some damning classified information.
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Counterintelligence investigations can take years, but if the Russian government had influence over the Trump campaign, the F.B.I. wanted to know quickly.
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But it also has a role in the intelligence world, leading counterintelligence operations, which are efforts to understand and stop foreign espionage.
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In its role as a counterintelligence organization, it also engaged in a shadow war with the C.I.A. and other Western spy agencies.
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The bureau's top counterintelligence agent, Bill Priestap, decided after deliberating with senior colleagues that the standard had been met, Mr. Horowitz found.
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Even after an arrest is made, counterintelligence officials can spend several more years trying to determine exactly how much damage was inflicted.
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There was lots of serious, deep stuff—terrorism, counterintelligence, a farewell for a genius — but there were some pretty fun moments, too.
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Like Holmes, Hill worried that Sondland presented a "counterintelligence risk" in part because of his frequent cell phone use in sensitive settings.
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He said Mexico's government needs to revamp its counterintelligence capabilities and consider alliances with other countries that could be facing similar challenges.
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"They opened a counterintelligence investigation on the whole campaign," Mr. Barr said at a Wall Street Journal conference in Washington on Tuesday.
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But we don't know if the broader counterintelligence investigation into the President concluded when Mueller submitted his report to Attorney General Barr.
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Federal Bureau of Investigation counterintelligence agents routinely try to monitor foreign diplomats from adversary nations, like the Russian ambassador, Sergey I. Kislyak.
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Schiff has responded to the criticism by arguing there's a distinction between Mueller's criminal investigation and the counterintelligence investigation into Trump's team.
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"Counterintelligence investigations aren't what you open when you don't have evidence to open a criminal investigation," says former federal prosecutor Renato Mariotti.
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The latest update came Friday when it emerged a former Soviet counterintelligence officer and current Russian-American lobbyist also attended the meeting.
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"The U.S. removing cyberwarfare restrictions is long overdue," Trevor Reschke, a former counterintelligence special agent with the U.S. Army, told VICE News.
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Later, he worked on counterterrorism, counterintelligence, and national security issues, experience that allowed him to become deeply immersed in the Russia probe.
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For the U.S. intelligence community, this puts counterintelligence – the art of spying on those who are conducting espionage against us – at a premium.
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The day before he died Saturday, Acosta's wife, Walewska Perez, said her husband was being tortured by counterintelligence officers working for Maduro's regime.
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For months, Trump and his GOP allies had demanded Justice formally examine the origins of the FBI's counterintelligence investigation into the Trump campaign.
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Schiff said that they were putting the testimony on hold while they pursued the unredacted Mueller report and counterintelligence evidence he had collected.
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Schiff has made some progress on that front, striking an agreement with the Justice Department for a set of a dozen counterintelligence documents.
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"We were relieved to see the Americans announce that they would expel 60 from the diplomatic side," said the central European counterintelligence official.
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A New York lawyer told CNN that FBI counterintelligence agents asked him questions in February or March related to Giuliani and his associates.
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Here's the reality of what happened: The FBI launched a counterintelligence investigation into the Trump campaign's contacts with Russian agents in July 2016.
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Informed citizens know well that the FBI is conducting a counterintelligence investigation into links between Russian cyber-saboteurs and the 2016 Trump campaign.
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The big picture: Wray identified China as the top counterintelligence threat to the United States, and cited Russia as the second greatest concern.
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The two -- the FBI agent in charge of the Clinton campaign hated Trump, liked Clinton, and also started the counterintelligence investigation against Trump.
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Officers from Poland's counterintelligence agency, known as the ABW, raided Huawei's offices Tuesday as well as Wang's home, seizing documents and electronic equipment.
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So Page continued to look like a spy—or someone being recruited as one—to FBI counterintelligence agents well into the Trump presidency.
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So Papadopoulos is why the FBI opened a counterintelligence investigation into the Trump campaign's Russia ties — the very investigation that Mueller now oversees.
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The Post said that Trump was also angry Comey publicly revealed the breadth of counterintelligence into Russia's meddling in the 85033 presidential race.
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Tom Cotton of Arkansas and Bill Priestap, the FBI's Assistant Director of the Counterintelligence Division, during a hearing about Russia on Capitol Hill.
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" DEMOCRATIC HOUSE INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN ADAM SCHIFF: "The House Intelligence Committee has formally invited Special Counsel Mueller to testify on the counterintelligence investigation.
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On Tuesday, House of Representatives Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff said his panel plans hearings on the Mueller report, including counterintelligence (CI) issues.
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Booth, also the author of "State Department Counterintelligence: Leaks, Spies and Lies," spent some time recently with CNN to talk about that investigation.
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Justice officials picked David Laufman, an accomplished federal prosecutor and then head of Justice's counterintelligence and export controls section, to lead the negotiations.
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Counterintelligence agent Peter Strzok and former lawyer Lisa Page came under fire for sending text messages criticizing President Trump during the 28500 campaign.
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Nunes has dismissed the FBI's criticism and accused the bureau of running a counterintelligence operation based on unverified information during the 2016 election.
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A top U.S. counterintelligence official is warning LinkedIn not to "be like Facebook" after finding that Chinese intelligence operatives are using its platform.
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This entails safeguards and security, cyber security, emergency management, intelligence analysis, classified information protection and counterintelligence related to nuclear weapons and nuclear materials.
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John Brown, a special agent in charge of the FBI's San Diego Field Office, has been tapped for the organization's top counterintelligence position.
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A third contact occurred July 6900, 2628, exactly one day before the FBI and counterintelligence official Peter Strzok opened the Trump probe officially.
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And it recently emerged that the investigation includes a counterintelligence probe, a stunning revelation that could change the entire nature of the inquiry.
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European leaders are understandably perplexed and worried about developments in the Russian scandal now being investigated by American counterintelligence and law enforcement agencies.
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Lichtblau disagreed, arguing that his story contained important news: that the F.B.I. had opened a counterintelligence investigation into Russian contacts with Trump's aides.
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The outlines of the deal were memorialized in a March 2628, 28500 email between Waldman and Justice Department counterintelligence section chief David Laufman.
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The House Judiciary Committee and House Oversight and Government Reform Committee have announced a public hearing for Thursday with counterintelligence agent Peter Strzok.
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The remarks come as Mueller is expected to be pressed about counterintelligence matters, which falls within the jurisdiction of the House Intelligence Committee.
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BuzzFeed added that FBI counterintelligence agent Gregory Monaghan and another unnamed bureau agent interviewed Page in June 2013 about his interactions with Podobnyy.
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In his letter, Bowdich noted that the topics covered included "FISA warrants and counterintelligence investigations," warning that the transcripts could contain classified information.
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Russia and the US have ramped up their counterintelligence and cybersecurity operations against each other in recent years as tensions between them mount.
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The five months of missing messages between senior counterintelligence agent Peter Strzok and FBI lawyer Lisa Page has thrown gasoline on the fire.
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The FBI is leading the counterintelligence effort and stood up a foreign influence team earlier this year to monitor and counter election interference.
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The account is included in closed-door testimony given to Congress by William Priestap, the assistant director for counterintelligence under Comey and McCabe.
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In June, FBI agents visited the homes of Kaspersky employees as part of a counterintelligence probe, two sources familiar with the matter said.
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Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, FBI counterintelligence agent Peter Stzrok and President Trump's trip to Europe in this week's photos of the week.
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A special agent assigned to NSA counterintelligence provides a breakdown of emails the NSA said it found from offices Snowden said he contacted.
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News of the royal family's murder had become public knowledge, and Soviet counterintelligence fueled the rumor that maybe, somehow, a child had survived.
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The bill's supporters contend that it is "one of the U.S. government's most important counterterrorism and counterintelligence tools" — and Congress appears to agree.
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As the head of the intelligence panel, Schiff has greater access to classified material, much of which was contained in Mueller's counterintelligence probe.
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Armando Hernandez, in a video posted on social media, said he was being detained at his flat in Caracas by counterintelligence service DGCIM.
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The Kushners have wooed Chinese investors despite warnings from American counterintelligence officials that China is using the investments to sway Trump administration policy.
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" DEMOCRATIC HOUSE INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN ADAM SCHIFF: "The House Intelligence Committee has formally invited Special Counsel Mueller to testify on the counterintelligence investigation.
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And one was labeled a major security risk after an interviewer conducting a counterintelligence screening told a joke and the recruit didn't laugh.
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Under Hoover's Counterintelligence Program, groups like the Nation of Islam and the Black Panthers were subject to routine surveillance, harassment and even violence.
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Counterintelligence officials have done a wide-reaching review of every former Russian informant now in the United States, according to an American official.
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" The referral was "a security referral made for counterintelligence purposes," and the investigation is "being conducted under the FBI's assigned law enforcement authorities.
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"Estonia has the best counterintelligence in Europe," said Toomas Hendrik Ilves, who was Estonia's president for a decade and left office in 2016.
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In a news conference on Saturday, Mr. Sipila, the prime minister, said that increasing the powers of counterintelligence agencies was a legislative priority.
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He wasthen promoted to assistant special agent in charge, and he served in theIntelligence and the Counterintelligence Divisions of the New York FieldOffice.
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He loved the bureau, he loved his job, he was very committed to protecting the country and he was a great counterintelligence agent.
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"Christopher Steele's raw intelligence reporting did not inform the FBI's decision to initiate its counterintelligence investigation in late July 2016," the Democrats claim.
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The memo states that the FBI counterintelligence investigation was "triggered" by Papadopoulos in July 2016, months before the Page FISA application was filed.
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He was, he said, drafted as a young man to serve in a military unit performing counterintelligence functions during the Soviet-Afghan war.
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So did an FBI agent, David Archey, a counterintelligence expert who took over for Peter Strzok in the investigation, in a written declaration.
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But interagency counterintelligence operations are often bogged down by competition over jurisdiction, which can lead to frustrating bureaucratic delays and sometimes missed opportunities.
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He is also the deputy director for counterintelligence at the F.S.B. The F.S.B. did not respond to an email query about the arrests.
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Wray's responses to the report seemed to embrace the very finding that Barr rejected: that the launching of the counterintelligence investigation was legitimate.
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The authorities have offered no public details of the charges, in what is the highest-profile counterintelligence detentions in the post-Soviet period.
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"I don't need to know any more about it," Burr said, expressing his respect for the FBI's independence in addressing possible counterintelligence threats.
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The inspector general concluded that was sufficient basis for the FBI to open a counterintelligence investigation into the Trump campaign's dealings with Russia.
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Comey, McCabe and Strzok were fired; Page, former FBI counsel James Baker and former counterintelligence chief Bill Priestap have left on their own.
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Congressional Democrats fumed Wednesday over Barr's statements, accusing the attorney general of mischaracterizing the FBI's counterintelligence investigation in an effort to please Trump.
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According to the Herald, the source Fuentes was spying on provides information on Russian spying in South Florida to the FBI's counterintelligence division.
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One of the stranger subplots in the story of the Russia investigation has been that of Peter Strzok, formerly a senior counterintelligence agent.
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What's more, independent experts find his overarching legal theory — that the counterintelligence investigation was a front for a "witch hunt" targeting Trump — dubious.
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And indeed, NBC News now reports that congressional leaders may be briefed on Mueller's counterintelligence findings in the next 30 to 60 days.
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Ironically, it appears that Strzok, a counterintelligence specialist, was one of the FBI agents spearheading the agency's investigation of Hillary Clinton's email server.
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He answered questions about how these types of FBI counterintelligence investigations work, Russia's attempts to influence the U.S. election, and of course, Trump.
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About three hours before Snowden's email was publicly released — and while Hayden, De, Litt, and the NSA's public affairs team continued to debate the merits of the release — a special agent assigned to the NSA's counterintelligence division sent an email to other counterintelligence officials about additional Snowden emails found within divisions at the NSA Snowden said he had contacted with his concerns.
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Horowitz refused to confirm the employees&apos identities, which the FBI has declined to publicly reveal, citing the supposed sensitivity of their counterintelligence matters.
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Word of this encounter at some point reached the FBI, inspiring it to launch its counterintelligence investigation into the Trump campaign on July 31.
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"The observation and combating of proliferation efforts of ... Iran was also an important task of counterintelligence" in 2017 in Baden-Württemberg, said the report.
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Schiff argued that the Justice Department lacks any good reason for failing to comply with his subpoena to provide counterintelligence information to his panel.
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Joel Melstad, a spokesman for the counterintelligence center, said five U.S. intelligence agencies contributed to the latest damage assessment, which itself is highly classified.
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The release of the stolen emails, meanwhile, transformed an ordinary cyber-intrusion investigation into a much bigger case handled by the FBI's counterintelligence division.
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Hill also said she believed Sondland created a counterintelligence risk because his inexperience could be exploited, according to a separate report by the Times.
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"Trump has called him a 'coffee boy' or something like it but that doesn't matter," said a Central European counterintelligence official, speaking of Papadopoulos.
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" At one points Strzok refers to a "CI guy," counterintelligence: "He can assess if thete [sic] are any news [sic] Qs, or different demeanor.
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"There have been legitimate questions, counterintelligence questions, raised as to whether or not the President or people around him have been compromised," Heck added.
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This is the Mueller operation, this -- was it a counterintelligence investigation that began in 2016 that is being continued right now by Mr. Mueller.
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" And the A.G. announced: "[T]he FBI has increased resources devoted to leak cases and created a new counterintelligence unit to manage these cases.
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Another source has told CNN that the President may have misunderstood the exact meaning of Comey's words, especially regarding the FBI's ongoing counterintelligence investigation.
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According to Time, Russia's attempts were disclosed in a March report to U.S. counterintelligence officials investigating Russian interference efforts in the 2016 presidential election.
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Beyond prosecutable crimes, counterintelligence investigators look for whether their subject has been compromised by a foreign power to the detriment of U.S. national security.
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William Evanina, the director of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center — part of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence — was also interviewed.
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Now counterintelligence investigations, as shadowy as they are, are just that; their singular goal is to counter the specific activities of foreign intelligence services.
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This approach complements military and counterintelligence efforts, and has been widely cited by military leaders as a crucial means of preventing costly future interventions.
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Iran's security agencies "successfully dismantled a [CIA] spy network," the head of counterintelligence at the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence told reporters in Iran Monday.
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And smart counterintelligence agencies try to make it easy for people to basically come forward and therefore in effect be recruited as double agents.
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If this was a counterintelligence investigation, not a criminal investigation, the FBI should have told President Trump they are concerns about Papadopoulos and Paige.
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It was called "Crossfire Hurricane," the FBI counterintelligence operation that targeted Trump figures as part of the investigation into possible campaign ties to Russia.
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It should be a serious concern that the Obama administration used secret counterintelligence powers to target officials in the campaign of the opposing party.
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Either way, the genesis of such a counterintelligence [operation] would have been scrutinized by the highest levels of the FBI and the Justice Department.
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FBI counterintelligence agent Peter Strzok is expected to appear before the House Judiciary Committee hearing to testify about his conduct during the 2016 election.
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Witt is accused of revealing a top-secret U.S. intelligence program to Iran, as well as disclosing the identity of a U.S. counterintelligence agent.
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The second request is problematic and, as written, is a violation of the attorney general's own guidelines for the initiation of a counterintelligence investigation.
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With Trump, the situation was unique because the FBI was conducting a counterintelligence investigation into his campaign while it was warning him about Russia.
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All intelligence, counterintelligence and law enforcement officials should provide a microscopic focus on the pattern of potentially escalating attacks against leading Democratic presidential candidates.
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It hardly needs stressing that if US counterintelligence officials in the FBI and CIA asked, MI5 would gladly share such CCTV footage with them.
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Under the special counsel, the counterintelligence investigation quickly shifted gears to a criminal investigation, but the original probe that Mueller inherited never went away.
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Graham, along with other Trump allies on Capitol Hill, has said that he too would like to investigate how that counterintelligence probe was conducted.
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The Mueller report largely has undercut any assertion by Comey that the counterintelligence investigation initiated during Comey's directorship was founded on solid legal predication.
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"Such a meeting would be highly irregular and inappropriate during any open criminal or counterintelligence investigation, much less one involving the president," they wrote.
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It was part of the FBI's larger domestic counterintelligence program, which was the subject of great criticism in hindsight and resulted in many reforms.
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That part is not OK; "links or coordination" does not satisfy the attorney general's own guidelines for conducting a counterintelligence investigation against U.S. persons.
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The guidelines clearly outline what kind of predicating information is required before the FBI can conduct a counterintelligence investigation, particularly against a U.S. citizen.
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This can only happen when Putin ends his war against American democracy, which American intelligence, counterintelligence and law enforcement agencies warn is continuing today.
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According to Time, Russia's attempts were disclosed in a March report to U.S. counterintelligence officials investigating Russian interference efforts in the 85033 presidential election.
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Two sources familiar with the matter told McClatchy that FBI counterintelligence investigators are looking into Alexander Torshin, the deputy governor of Russia's central bank.
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From the perspective of the counterintelligence operation, every one of those moves confirmed the concern that Trump may have been working for Russian interests.
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FBI Director Christopher Wray will deliver an address on cyberterrorism and counterintelligence at the Aspen Security Forum on Wednesday evening at 7:15 p.m.
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The committee revealed details of the F.B.I.'s secret Cointelpro, or counterintelligence, operation, which included illegal sabotage of dissident groups deemed to be subversive.
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Mr. Flynn's lawyers singled out Andrew G. McCabe, the former F.B.I. deputy director, and Peter Strzok, a senior counterintelligence agent who interviewed Mr. Flynn.
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He has said that his company has never spied for any government — an assertion that has not eased the concerns of American counterintelligence officials.
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Mr. Steele had repeated contacts before and after the election with F.B.I. counterintelligence agents who were investigating links between the Trump campaign and Russians.
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It's a lot easier to justify the abuse of counterintelligence powers when you're convinced that the abnormal nature of a presidential candidacy demands it.
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The F.B.I. sent her to London as part of the counterintelligence inquiry opened that summer to better understand the Trump campaign's links to Russia.
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The agency announced that ODNI would instead be represented during the briefings by William Evanina, the director of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center.
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"The threat from Putin in this area is real and pervasive," said Mike Rochford, a former F.B.I. counterintelligence agent who helped expose Russian spies.
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On Wednesday, federal prosecutors charged Monica Elfriede Witt, a 39-year-old former counterintelligence agent, with delivering classified defense information to the Iranian government.
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U.S. officials believe the massive Marriott data breach, which compromised as many as 500 million people's information, was also part of this counterintelligence project.
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Neither official offered an answer when asked if the information about personnel could be used in counterintelligence efforts against China, a recent administration focus.
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Byrne previously worked at Lockheed Martin as that defense contractor's chief privacy officer, and the company's lead attorney for information technology, cybersecurity and counterintelligence.
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These counterintelligence professionals share vital information regarding the identities and activities of foreign diplomats who may, in fact, be intelligence officers operating under cover.
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Several senators have asked for investigations into TikTok as a counterintelligence risk, and the Army and Navy have both barred TikTok from government phones.
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I know firsthand from my experience working counterintelligence investigations for the FBI that kicking a diplomat out of the country is no small thing.
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But he is Stephen M. Somma, a counterintelligence investigator in the F.B.I.'s New York field office, people familiar with the Russia investigation said.
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The two remaining installments will examine the 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment on Russian interference and the Committee's final counterintelligence findings, according to the committee.
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Rudy Giuliani was seen at Mar-a-Lago this weekend, and the FBI and the federal investigation into Giuliani reportedly includes a counterintelligence probe.
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In the report released last week, investigators found that Mr. Shea engaged in intimidation tactics against a political opponent as well as counterintelligence gathering.
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But we do know that Kushner made various moves that are often viewed as counterintelligence red flags -- including his failure to disclose foreign contacts.
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When Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya met with members of then-candidate Donald Trump's campaign team, she brought a guest — a former Soviet counterintelligence officer.
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It took years for counterintelligence officials at the C.I.A. and the F.B.I. to put the pieces together and finally solve the puzzle of 1985.
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"We're constantly told to be agile and use all the legal tools available to us," said one FBI employee who works on counterintelligence matters.
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Trump and some of his supporters in Congress have also accused the FBI of launching the entire Russia counterintelligence investigation based on the dossier.
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"It's very unusual to be involved in something that ends up in an arrest," said Christopher Lynch, a former F.B.I. and C.I.A. counterintelligence analyst.
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The FBI says the photo-editing app that went viral this summer is a &apossignificant counterintelligence threat&apos because of its ties to Russia.
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"The bureau would play a little game," said Ray Batvinis, who spent 25 years as an F.B.I. counterintelligence officer until his retirement in 1997.
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A public 'report' One of the limitations of the special counsel regulation is that it focuses on a criminal investigation, not a counterintelligence one.
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China aims to "exploit the openness of American society, especially academia" as part of their ongoing counterintelligence mission against us, according to the DNI.
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Finally, the criminal avenues that Mueller is pursuing through the grand jury are likely happening on a parallel track to an active counterintelligence investigation.
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The dossier, compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele, wasn't provided to the FBI's counterintelligence team until mid-September 2016, according to the memo.
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Instead, these are about potential compromise or links to Russia — something that would be part of a counterintelligence probe rather than a criminal one.
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It's so good that their counterintelligence capabilities are quite elite, and the information Trump provided may allow Moscow to find out the source's identity.
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And that's one of the reasons why I want to see the unredacted version and frankly the counterintelligence evidence that went into that report.
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It was that incident — not the Steele dossier — that prompted the FBI to open the counterintelligence investigation into the Trump campaign's ties to Russia.
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"We caught 'em — they were spying," Trump said, referring to the counterintelligence investigation of his campaign that began in 2016 and followed normal procedures.
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As former NSA counterintelligence officer John Schindler accounts, Israeli human-intelligence operations inside the United States are at a scale to those of American adversaries.
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Who's investigating election interference:FBI - In July of 2016, the FBI launched a counterintelligence investigation into possible links between the Russian government and Trump campaign officials.
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Last month, he threatened to subpoena FBI Director Chris Wray if the FBI did not tell his committee whether any counterintelligence investigations are still active.
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"These are the people investigating the Clinton email situation and start the counterintelligence investigation of the Trump campaign," Graham said, referring to Strzok and Page.
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There were a lot of other high-level officials would have known what was going on in a counterintelligence investigation, particularly when involving a campaign.
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The Mueller probe, as it was originally articulated by Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein, is a counterintelligence probe into Russia&aposs interference in the 20183 election.
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"China in many ways represents the broadest, most complicated, most long-term counterintelligence threat we face," affecting every sector of the U.S. economy, Wray said.
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So we have this infamous Russian lawyer who met with Trump Jr. last year and apparently several other people, including a former Soviet counterintelligence officer.
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Nearly half of the FBI's 2016 budget was committed to "counterterrorism and counterintelligence" operations, along with more than 13,000 members of the bureau's 35,000 employees.
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The report confirms that it was comments made by Papadopoulos that the Russians had obtained "thousands" of Clinton emails that triggered the FBI's counterintelligence investigation.
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ANDY MCCARTHY, NATIONAL REVIEW: Well, I think, Sean, what they&aposre burying, the word that you almost never see in the whole article is counterintelligence.
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The House Intelligence Committee announced on Friday that it will hold an open hearing on June 12 covering the "counterintelligence implications" of the Mueller report.
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But here's the thing I don't get: We just learned today that there was another person present in the meeting, a former Soviet counterintelligence officer.
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But Trump may not have known that back in February, and so may have been asking Comey to lay off the counterintelligence investigation into Flynn.
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"In this position, she assists the D/CIA in managing intelligence collection, analysis, covert action, counterintelligence, and liaison relationships with foreign services," the CIA explained.
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Wang was arrested alongside a former member of Poland's counterintelligence agency, identified only as Piotr D. The former spy recently worked for telecoms company Orange.
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"I don't see a dip in morale," Bill Evanina, the national counterintelligence executive, said in response to questions at an event in Washington Thursday evening.
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Peter Strzok, a counterintelligence specialist on Mueller's team, shared a string of text messages with FBI lawyer Lisa Page describing their mutual dislike of Trump.
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For the last 16 years, the FBI has gone back and forth between whether it is a law enforcement agency, a counterintelligence agency, or both.
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The New York Times reported on Friday that the FBI in 2017 opened a counterintelligence investigation into whether Trump was working on behalf of Russia.
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The report also raised questions surrounding FBI counterintelligence agent Peter Strzok and FBI attorney Lisa Page, whose text message exchange provoked outrage among Trump's allies.
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Horowitz is also still working on a separate investigation into the bureau's handling of the counterintelligence investigation into the Trump campaign's alleged ties to Russia.
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The Justice Department has asked its inspector general to determine whether there was any wrongdoing in the FBI's handling of its Russian interference counterintelligence investigation.
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But the vast majority occurred during the 2628-28503 timeframe that gave birth to one of the most controversial counterintelligence probes in recent American history.
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Then, an intelligence branch was also stood up, taking its place alongside the bureau's mainstays that included criminal, counterterrorism, counterintelligence, special operations, and administrative divisions.
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The attorney general is also likely to be questioned by Republicans about his plans to review the decisions in the FBI's original Russia counterintelligence probe.
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In point of fact, Trump did not shut down the investigation of Michael Flynn or the counterintelligence probe of Russia's meddling in the 2016 election.
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There is no public evidence of wrongdoing by either the intelligence source or the bureau, which regularly uses confidential informants in validly predicated counterintelligence investigations.
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He is particularly interested in what became of the counterintelligence investigation, the existence of which Comey revealed in show-stopping congressional testimony in March 2017.
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After returning to Washington, she served as deputy chief of counterintelligence, training staff members on the workings of the Soviet and East German intelligence services.
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Page left the FBI in May but Strzok, once the No. 2 in the counterintelligence division, remains at the bureau, now stationed in human resources.
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The three Trump associates should have declined to attend the meeting and informed the counterintelligence division of the FBI that the Russian offer was made.
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Look at investigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson out with another great article: &aposEight signs pointing to a counterintelligence operation that was deployed against Trump&aposs campaign.
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If true, that means the bipartisan Gang of Eight gave a congressional green light for the FBI top open the a counterintelligence investigation into Trump.
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The use of such sources is common in counterintelligence investigations, but the revelation of the source and his role has ignited outrage on the right.
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Are there communication and counterintelligence measures we might deploy to increase the odds that a post-theocratic Iran would be friendlier to the United States?
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Rinat Akhmetshin is a Russian-American lobbyist who, by his own admission, worked as a military counterintelligence officer for the Soviet Union before its fall.
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To the extent that it's a counterintelligence investigation, those tend to be highly political—you're talking about policy, particularly foreign policy, and national-security policy.
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The FBI's investigation into Rudy Giuliani, President Donald Trump's lawyer, includes a previously unknown counterintelligence aspect that could alter the entire nature of the probe.
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Speculation spread that Guaidó had been duped by a counterintelligence sting, in which Army officers encouraged the uprising in order to smoke out disloyal soldiers.
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The Polish counterintelligence agency also announced the arrest of a man it accused of spying for Russia and passing along information about sensitive energy projects.
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It's also an issue that, from day one, has implicated the self-esteem of the FBI, which prides itself on counterintelligence and national security work.
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Republicans said they were looking ahead to the results of a review into the origins of the counterintelligence investigation that ultimately prompted Mr. Mueller's appointment.
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The group noted that one need look no further than COINTELPRO, the FBI's onetime Counterintelligence Program, to find examples of the misuse of domestic surveillance.
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Counterintelligence is, in effect, chasing ghosts, which is why the tools used to investigate foreign intelligence activity are secret, like human sources or electronic surveillance.
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Mr. Schiff said that the Justice Department had failed to meet a subpoena deadline for intelligence and counterintelligence information related to the special counsel investigation.
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His counterintelligence report said he was a security risk because the Nepali government had paid for his undergraduate education and may have influence over him.
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If the FBI wants to conduct any counterintelligence surveillance of an individual within the United States it must apply to this court to do so.
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Mr. Mueller's mandate is primarily a counterintelligence investigation, with the add-on authority to pursue criminal indictments for any wrongdoing he discovers along the way.
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Fuentes believed the Russian official worked for the Federal Security Service, Russia's counterintelligence agency which reports directly to Vladimir Putin, according to the criminal complaint.
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It was the first clear-cut evidence that Mr. Comey believed the bureau needed more resources to handle a sprawling and highly politicized counterintelligence investigation.
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He rose to head the KGB's foreign counterintelligence branch before falling out of favor in Russia, moving to Washington, D.C., and becoming an American citizen.
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But investigative records show FBI counterintelligence recorded the first illicit payments in the bribery/kickback scheme in November 2009, a year before the CFIUS approval.
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Mr. Pompeo went hard at leakers, saying he had moved the C.I.A.'s counterintelligence operations directly under his control in part to combat the problem.
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Just by talking to Giuliani, whether it be while Giuliani is on his unsecured phone or in person, Trump is increasing his own counterintelligence risks.
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Our own law enforcement and intelligence community are working hard on counterintelligence investigations but it's clear that China is having success targeting former government officials.
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With deep substantive expertise on Central Eurasia and counterintelligence, Ms. Haspel was uniquely positioned to be a trusted adviser on Russia to the Trump administration.
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The lengthy counterintelligence investigation into Mr. Ames was aided by a Russian spy, code-named AVENGER, who provided critical information that pointed toward Mr. Ames.
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Remember that in his report, Horowitz wrote that he found no "documentary or testimonial evidence that political bias or improper motivation influenced" the counterintelligence operation.
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Those attacks were particularly noteworthy given that the report found no evidence of bias or improper motivation in the FBI's decisions to use counterintelligence techniques.
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"China in many ways represents the broadest, most complicated, most long-term counterintelligence threat we face," he said at a US Senate hearing on Wednesday.
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I never once sat down with my White House colleagues and knew that there were "disqualifying issues" that could mean that they were counterintelligence risks.
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That revelation prompted the FBI to open the counterintelligence investigation on July 31, 2016, one day after the breakfast but based on entirely different information.
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It was one of the most important U.S. counterintelligence victories against Russia in history, and famous for nabbing the glamorous spy-turned-model Anna Chapman.
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Like voters, police and counterintelligence officials are also getting used to the threat and have toughened tracking and border controls in many parts of Europe.
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" But Prime Minister Theresa May said earlier that MI5, the domestic counterintelligence agency, had looked into the assailant "in relation to concerns about violent extremism.
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Complex security together with people knowledgeable in counterintelligence is required to protect systems from the biggest flaw in any design: the people who use them.
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Papadopoulos was also subject to FBI surveillance, and it was his conversation with an Australian diplomat that sparked the FBI's counterintelligence investigation in July 2017.
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The department also didn't live up to its initial vision as counterintelligence operations from the FBI and elsewhere were not placed under the new agency.
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Many of the 85033,000 to 60,000 Salafi-jihadist fighters in Syria have improved their combat, bomb-making and counterintelligence capabilities and have become dangerous enemies.
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Still, the memo also undercut a long-held assertion by conservatives that the counterintelligence probe into the Trump campaign was based entirely on the dossier.
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Because of his aptitude for deduction and his intellectual doggedness, he'd been assigned to counterintelligence within a year after coming to the FBI in 1995.
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She also worked closely with the F.B.I. on counterintelligence matters, and she knew the identities of Iranian informants whom the American intelligence agencies were using.
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She entered the Air Force in 1997 as part of the Office of Special Investigations, which conducts counterintelligence inquiries in the United States and overseas.
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But Pompeo also conspicuously added a responsibility: having the Counterintelligence Mission Center, which is deeply involved in the ongoing Russia investigation, report directly to him.
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The response: Mr. Trump attacked the F.B.I. and its former top officials on Twitter over news of the counterintelligence investigation and denied The Post's report.
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The counterintelligence group with advanced technology that counts Evil Georgiou among its ranks and is currently chasing after Spock assuming he's murdered multiple Starfleet officers?
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Mr. Barr pledged to investigate the origins of the F.B.I.'s counterintelligence investigation into Russia's election interference, which Mr. Mueller took over in May 2017.
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So these counterintelligence findings may well have been separated out from Mueller's main report (which focused on prosecution or nonprosecution decisions), to be handled elsewhere.
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It is quite obvious that John Brennan was at the head of a group of people who were going to create a counterintelligence investigation against Trump by creating false information which was going to be fed through Carter Page and fed through George Papadopoulos so that it would be picked up, reported back to Washington and provide the basis for a counter -- a fake counterintelligence investigation.
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The aggressive move to investigate Trump reportedly set off "a vigorous debate" within the Justice Department over whether FBI agents overreacted by opening the counterintelligence probe.
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U.S. counterintelligence agents have investigated communications that President Donald Trump's national security adviser, Michael Flynn, had with Russian officials, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday.
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The House Intelligence Committee in particular wanted to speak to the deputies in closed session so they could dive into classified, counterintelligence details of the investigation.
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Sasse also asked Barr if campaigns should receive regular counterintelligence briefings about the risk of foreign intelligence services seeking to have influence over candidates and campaigns.
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Instead, the proposed rules would limit access to raw NSA data to spy agencies, "and only for authorized foreign intelligence and counterintelligence purposes," said the letter.
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Devin Nunes, have both made requests to the FBI and Justice Department to be briefed on the counterintelligence information gathered in special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation.
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Now, this would have been in May of 2000, which is obviously months before this counterintelligence investigation was opened by the FBI into the Trump campaign.
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Washington (CNN)House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff issued a subpoena Wednesday to the Justice Department for "counterintelligence and foreign intelligence" from special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation.
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There was an exception in 2015, when the Counterintelligence Division was publicly credited with the disruption of a Russian spy ring operating in New York City.
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Declassified documents show that Papadopoulos' foreign contacts during the presidential campaign prompted the FBI in July 2016 to open a counterintelligence investigation, later led by Mueller.
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In one August 2016 message, former senior counterintelligence official Peter Strzok told then–FBI lawyer Lisa Page, "We'll stop it," referring to Donald Trump becoming president.
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"Red Sparrow" and its sequel, "Palace of Treason," by Jason Matthews, nail the world of intelligence and counterintelligence (and offer a cleareyed view of modern Russia).
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It's possible the second probe is a counterintelligence investigation rather than a criminal investigation, in which case its results will never see the light of day.
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The investigation has been driven by Barr's suspicions that some of the officials overseeing the counterintelligence probe of the 2016 Trump campaign may have acted improperly.
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Upon reporting to the commander's office, Daniel said, three uniformed counterintelligence agents confiscated his phone and said he was needed for an "interview" at DGCIM headquarters.
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Venezuelan military counterintelligence agents detained American journalist Cody Weddle and his Venezuelan colleague, Carlos Camacho, early on Wednesday, Venezuela's National Press Workers Union said on Twitter.
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He was the deputy head of counterintelligence at the FBI, working on both the Trump-Russia probe and the investigation into Hillary Clinton's private email server.
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We need a special counsel to look at all things Department of Justice and FBI when it came to the Trump investigation, particularly the counterintelligence investigation.
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Here he particularly criticizes FBI counterintelligence agent Peter Strzok for texting his co-worker and lover, Lisa Page, that "we'll stop" Trump from winning the election.
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It's also expected that if approved, up to 50 US special operations troops could be sent to Libya on a rotating basis to share counterintelligence information.
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The techniques used in the attempt to recruit Page are similar to those employed by Cold War-era KGB operatives, a former counterintelligence official told CNN.
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Some legal experts have said this policy should not apply to Mueller's report because it was primarily a counterintelligence operation, rather than a traditional criminal investigation.
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Then-counterintelligence agent Peter Strzok, who had an extramarital affair with Page during the 85033 election, was then brought over to work on the Russia investigation.
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Papadopoulos's interactions with Mifsud, which he reportedly recounted to an Australian diplomat in a London bar, helped trigger the FBI's counterintelligence investigation into Russian election interference.
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Bill Priestap, who currently serves as assistant director of the FBI's counterintelligence division, will leave the bureau after 20 years, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday.
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In August, William Evanina, director of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center, told The New York Times that China's spies are operating on a mass scale.
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Before World War II broke out, German intelligence officers frequented Bullard's club, enabling him to eavesdrop and pass on what he heard to French counterintelligence officers.
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A written report summarizing what was intercepted from the whistleblowers' efforts to communicate legally with Congress was given to the CIA chiefs of security and counterintelligence.
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It turns out the CIA claims it must engage in "routine counterintelligence monitoring of government computers" to make sure certain employees aren't doing bad things. Poof!
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Strzok, who was a senior counterintelligence agent, was removed from Mueller's team after the texts were revealed and was fired from the FBI earlier this year.
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Having authored hundreds of 302s, and run many sensitive counterintelligence investigations and operations during my bureau career, I know an FBI oddity when one wanders by.
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To disrupt these actors and protect industry, U.S. counterintelligence (CI) efforts require reform if they are going to keep up with the 21st-century threat environment.
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To add to the concerns, the two were having an affair in the middle of a counterintelligence probe, which in and of itself is a compromise.
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In late 2004, the F.B.I. informed Sandia's head of counterintelligence, Bruce Held, a retired C.I.A. officer, that Carpenter had been helping the Bureau on various cases.
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And what we're trying to do is get the documents to figure out — did they actually have, what methods were used to open this counterintelligence investigation?
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The report makes clear that two of Comey subordinates — then-Counterintelligence Deputy Assistant Director Peter Strzok and FBI attorney Lisa Page — exchanged anti-Trump text messages.
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But Comey, for instance, said that the FBI's counterintelligence investigation opened in July 2016 was an investigation into four individuals and not the Trump campaign itself.
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Schiff and other Democrats argue that numerous contacts between the Trump campaign and Moscow, while not deemed criminal by Mueller, raise counterintelligence and national security concerns.
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The revelation comes one day after the The Wall Street Journal reported that Michael Flynn's communications with Russian officials had been investigated by U.S. counterintelligence agents.
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Sessions's remark comes after Strzok's attorney confirmed on Tuesday that the counterintelligence agent was escorted from the FBI building amid an internal review of his conduct.
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They wouldn&apost be deeming him eligible for access to classified materials no matter what level of clearance if there were any outstanding counterintelligence concerns whatsoever.
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The case is being prosecuted by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of Pennsylvania and the National Security Division's Counterintelligence and Export Control Section.
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Bernard Baruch had returned to Germany in 1938 to recruit spies for the French counterintelligence services, making his way back to France after the war began.
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It's the FBI's job -- as part of its counterintelligence mandate -- to detect, monitor, and neutralize the activities of these foreign intelligence services in the United States.
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William R. Evanina, the government's top counterintelligence official, said it may be infeasible to prevent every breach at an agency like the N.S.A., with 35,000 employees.
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The FBI's investigation into Rudy Giuliani, President Donald Trump's personal lawyer, includes a previously unknown counterintelligence component that could change the entire nature of the probe.
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But Mr. Ohr worked on counternarcotics at the Justice Department, not counterintelligence, and he is not known to have played any role in the Russia investigation.
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He seems determined to save her, but as Stan learned when he joined counterintelligence and now has relearned, brutally, this can happen: You can lose someone.
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"If someone came and told that to the C.I.A. or F.B.I. and they didn't open a counterintelligence investigation, they would be guilty of malpractice," he said.
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Pakistani officials called the arrest a major counterintelligence victory and claimed that Mr. Jadhav had been working for India's spy agency, the Research and Analysis Wing.
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Final classification of the documents was made by Bill Priestap, then the chief of the FBI's counterintelligence division, after a review by the division's law unit.
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"Obviously when U.S.-Cuban relations are bad, one of the ways that manifests itself is greater attention by the F.B.I. to counterintelligence issues," Mr. LeoGrande said.
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COMEY: Look (ph), all I can say sitting here is there were a variety of defensive briefings given to the incoming administration about the counterintelligence risk.
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He told some journalists that he worked with a military counterintelligence unit, but said he never joined Russian intelligence services — unlike his father, sister and godfather.
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The book also offers new details about the F.B.I.'s decision to open a counterintelligence investigation into Mr. Trump one week after he fired Mr. Comey.
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It was at a congressional hearing in March that Mr. Comey first publicly acknowledged that the bureau was running a broad counterintelligence investigation into Russian interference.
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For decades, counterintelligence officials have tried to pinpoint embassy or consulate employees with diplomatic cover who are spies and assign officers to follow some of them.
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Lastly, after Director Comey publicly acknowledged that there was an active counterintelligence investigation into the possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, he was fired.
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Counterintelligence investigations are used to gather information quietly about the activities of foreign powers and their agents — sometimes for years — and can result in criminal charges.
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Chuck Schumer and Tom Cotton wrote a letter to the US head of national security asking for an investigation into the app as a counterintelligence risk.
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Counterintelligence officials were routinely monitoring his movements, gathering information on who he was meeting with and what he was doing as he moved around the region.
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American counterintelligence officials have recently renewed their focus on Russian spies, and the CIA might be able to acquire and publish a cache of Kremlin tools.
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"He said that he did not necessarily agree with our conclusion about the opening of a full counterintelligence investigation, which is what this was," Horowitz recalled.
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Still, it is undeniable that the agents and supervisors compiling materials for the Page wiretap application were under far more pressure than in routine counterintelligence investigations.
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Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-Ill.) said Trump's conversations with foreign leaders create a counterintelligence risk because other countries can use his personal and financial information against him.
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Some other members of the armed forces say they want to join Mr. Guaidó's side, but fear the military counterintelligence service, which has punished dissidents ruthlessly.
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Proposed to streamline and complement the existing agencies, rather than grow into an empire, the ODNI added yet three more "centers" addressing counterproliferation, counterintelligence and cyber.
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The investigation that led to the settlement with Skadden Arps was handled by the Justice Department's Counterintelligence and Export Control Section, which includes the FARA unit.
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Mueller started by building an impressive legal team to include several areas of expertise such as obstruction of justice, organized crime, financial crimes, and counterintelligence matters.
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The case had frustrated counterintelligence officials in the F.B.I. and C.I.A. as they sought to determine how the Chinese had disrupted agency operations in the country.
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We also know that what began as a counterintelligence investigation quickly turned into a criminal investigation, in large part because Mr. Trump surrounded himself with criminals.
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However, the bureau opened the counterintelligence investigation into Russia's election meddling — including scrutinizing links to the Trump campaign — based on other information, and without the dossier.
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All six men are being held in the headquarters of Venezuela's military counterintelligence department in Caracas, the country's state prosecutor said in a statement on Thursday.
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Barr suggests that the FBI's counterintelligence investigation into the Trump campaign did not in fact begin with Papadopoulos bragging about having knowledge of Russian hacks pic.twitter.
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Behind the scenes, Strzok had played a central role in both the Hillary Clinton email investigation and the counterintelligence investigation into the Trump campaign and Russia.
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The investigation had both a counterintelligence and criminal aspect to it — with the criminal question being whether he had obstructed justice by firing Comey, per the Times.
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Hoover oversaw COINTELPRO, a counterintelligence program that infiltrated the organization and ultimately led to its demise in the '70s, even going so far as assassinating its leaders.
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For one thing, Attorney General William Barr is expected to make broad redactions to hide counterintelligence information, grand jury testimony, and ongoing investigations by other federal prosecutors.
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"To be honest, we often advise people to just pay the ransom," Joseph Bonavolonta, a Boston FBI cyber and counterintelligence specialist, told a security conference last fall.
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Oleg Kalugin, who is a former head of counterintelligence in the KGB and had been Vladimir Putin's boss at one point, I asked him about the mafia.
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The F.B.I. began investigating whether Mr. Comey's firing constituted obstruction of justice and opened a counterintelligence inquiry to determine whether Mr. Trump was being directed by Russia.
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A CIA spokesperson told me Pompeo did this because he wants to improve counterintelligence at the CIA, and that the unit deals with more than just Russia.
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The FBI's counterintelligence team is tasked with "the detection, identification, and neutralization of hostile foreign intelligence activities," according to the page the FBI Facebook ads direct to.
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But to publicly release vast troves of stolen data to try to influence a U.S. election is beyond the scale of what U.S. counterintelligence officials have seen.
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China, again, was behind the hack of more than 20 million security-clearance records from the Office of Personnel Management, a counterintelligence disaster for the United States.
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Then Comey made the hearing's biggest news — revealing that the F.B.I. was conducting a counterintelligence investigation into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russian government.
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If Kasowitz's victory speech hinges on Comey's admission this week that he previously said Trump wasn't personally under an FBI counterintelligence investigation that doesn't close the case.
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The FBI's counterintelligence team has been trying to piece together exactly how Russia interfered in the election, in order to learn techniques and adapt for the future.
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Counterintelligence officials, meanwhile, have picked up evidence that Russia tried to target particular influencers during the election season who they reasoned would help spread the damaging stories.
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Inside those packages were discs and documents of valuable U.S. intelligence that compromised a wide range of FBI secrets, including counterintelligence investigative techniques, sources, methods and operations.
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The White House reportedly consulted with counterintelligence officials ahead of Trump's Asia trip to discuss whether or not the president should tweet amid concerns of cyber hacking.
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A greater hurdle is that the Russia investigation initially began as a counterintelligence probe, meaning that significant aspects of it may be classified on national-security grounds.
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He used it, rather than the attorney general, to order a possible criminal investigation of a counterintelligence operation conducted by the Department of Justice and the FBI.
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TV. — Tess Bonn Former Obama-era counterintelligence official Nate Synder warned Tuesday that the Trump administration should not take any short-cuts on its approach to Huawei.
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The top Republican on the House Judiciary Committee on Thursday released a transcript of former FBI counterintelligence agent Peter Strzok's closed-door testimony from last year. Rep.
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TV. —Tess Bonn Former Obama-era counterintelligence official Nate Synder warned Tuesday that the Trump administration should not take any short-cuts on its approach to Huawei.
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" The disgraced F.B.I. counterintelligence director Frank Gaad met an untimely end at the hands of K.G.B. thugs on Wednesday's episode of FX's Cold War drama "The Americans.
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He knows a lot about corruption in Ukraine, and he said that earlier this year F.B.I. counterintelligence investigators approached him for information about Rudy Giuliani's Ukrainian activities.
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On July 31, 2016, one day after Ohr reached out to McCabe, Strzok opened a counterintelligence matter dubbed "Crossfire Hurricane" to look into the Trump-Russia allegations.
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This suggests that, indeed, a small political faction inside the U.S. government attempted to sway a presidential election — and used our country's counterintelligence assets to do it.
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And yet, it appears that high-profile individuals tied to the Trump campaign have been vigorously pursued with criminal charges not normally leveraged in lesser counterintelligence investigations.
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The testimony backs up the president's claim that Comey had assured him on three separate occasions that he was not the target of the FBI's counterintelligence probe.
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Hill described Sondland as "clueless" about counterintelligence risks, and frequently sending text messages from his personal phone to government phones that had their text capability turned off.
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"It is my understanding that relevant law enforcement and counterintelligence agencies conducted further investigation and determined some detected signals were emanating from legitimate cell towers," he continued.
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He stated that during "routine counterintelligence monitoring of government computer systems," the CIA collected emails between congressional staff and the CIA's head of whistleblowing and source protection.
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Rinat Akhmetshin: A Russian-American lobbyist and reportedly a former Soviet military counterintelligence officer who was lobbying on behalf of Veselnitskaya's organization to overturn the Magnitsky sanctions.
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Given the high stakes, the two sides have gone to unusual lengths in their preparation, including what longtime activists say is an unprecedented level of counterintelligence work.
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However, he canceled the meeting earlier Wednesday, after the Justice Department agreed to begin producing some of the foreign intelligence and counterintelligence documents sought by the committee.
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It goes back to the moment when a probe code-named Crossfire Hurricane was opened on July 31, 2016, by Trump-hating FBI counterintelligence agent Peter Strzok.
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The special counsel investigation reached the only logical conclusion that it could have, since there was no adequate basis for the counterintelligence investigation in the first place.
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Schiff said he has been unable to get briefings or information on the status or findings of the counterintelligence probe, including on whether it was ever shuttered.
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"Emotion, spotting and reacting to threats, as well as assuring our survival, are all heavy responsibilities of the limbic system," writes former FBI counterintelligence agent Joe Navarro.
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T.S.A. and other counterintelligence officials are hoping that the Arizona State University research by Professor Wynne can help provide better training for dogs to detect homemade bombs.
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It was also an internal referral from Horowitz that led to the public exposure of text messages between counterintelligence agent Peter Strzok and FBI lawyer Lisa Page.
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He said the inability to access cellphone data that is "going dark" would impact FBI investigations across the board including counterterrorism, counterintelligence, human trafficking and organized crime.
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"Russia has long been a counterintelligence threat to the U.S. and election interference is certainly an important concern, but it's not the only one," the statement reads.
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Just from a plain counterintelligence standpoint, that would set off a lot of alarm bells because of the fear of potentially being compromised or having undue influence.
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In an extraordinary recent hearing offering a threat assessment, leaders of the American intelligence and counterintelligence agencies publicly disagreed with Trump on a list of major issues.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Thursday imposed sanctions against Venezuela's military counterintelligence agency following the death of a navy captain after a week in its custody.
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Strzok, who led the investigation of Clinton's private email server as the No. 2 official in the counterintelligence division, was responsible for the change, CNN has reported.
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At the time, Sessions said the DOJ had tripled the number of active leaks investigations and had created a counterintelligence unit to manage the heavy case load.
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"The president didn't benefit from the expertise of professionals who have spent their entire careers studying Russia's manner of counterintelligence, their tradecraft and Putin himself," she said.
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Here's what you need to know: Britain's domestic counterintelligence agency MI5 foiled a terror plot to assassinate British Prime Minister Theresa May, the Met Police revealed Wednesday.
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Anything that remains relevant to an ongoing investigation, such as those that Mr. Mueller spun off to regular prosecutors or the ongoing counterintelligence investigation into Russia; 3.
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" And at one point, Senator Jack Reed, Democrat of Rhode Island, pressed Mr. Barr on whether he had "specific evidence of anything improper in the counterintelligence investigation.
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The counterintelligence investigation is not necessarily complete, but from the glimpses we see in the Mueller report, it should set off very serious national security alarm bells.
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