Counter-intelligence agencies have indeed become “like a yoke” for Russian scientists, he said.

This is the result of allowing a counter-intelligence agency to become politicised.

He said then that he was a member of the Cuba's counter-intelligence agency.

Serving as an intelligence and counter-intelligence agency, it dealt with any activity that could possibly be considered anti-communist.

He escaped punishment because from 1947-1948 he was employed by an American military counter-intelligence agency as an expert on Soviet affairs.

MI5, Britain's counter-intelligence agency, also has learned male suicide bombers are getting explosives implanted in their buttocks, the Sun said.

The Globovision TV network said Lopez's apartment was searched by agents of the military's counter-intelligence agency.

In July, Europe's counter-intelligence agencies scored a coup with the apprehension of five IRA members.

Nevertheless, he was captured and interrogated by the SMERSH counter-intelligence agency.

MI5, Britain's domestic security and counter-intelligence agency, investigates terrorist plots against Britain, where suicide bombings on the London transport system killed 52 people in 2005.

A Quantico spokesman, Lieutenant Agustin Solivan, said officials had referred the matter to law enforcement and counter-intelligence agencies.

Illyan begins as an operative of Barrayaran Imperial Security Service - imperial intelligence and counter-intelligence agency.

The information is to be made available for use by the RG domestic intelligence agency, counter-intelligence agencies, the judicial police (PJ) and investigative magistrates.

In seven years he had risen to be head of the counter-intelligence agency SMERSH, and now he was a Minister.

If discovered, these diplomats can be expelled from an embassy, but for the most part counter-intelligence agencies prefer to keep these agents 'in situ' and under close monitoring.

The Russian FSB counter-intelligence agency also recently announced it had arrested a Russian on charges of working as a spy for Britain.

That merger combined the intelligence and counter-intelligence agencies under one structure, the Second Directorate for Intelligence and Counter-intelligence.

The problem for counter-intelligence agencies, however, is that the behaviour of independent operators is notoriously difficult to predict; and Merah was atypical even of independent operators.

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police was once the principal counter-intelligence agency, but most functions transferred to CSIS.

The book suggested that the FBI has not evolved into an effective counter-terrorism or counter-intelligence agency, due in large part to deeply ingrained agency cultural resistance to change.

From November 1945 he was a soldier in Main Directorate of Information of the Polish Army, then Military Counter-intelligence agency.

How this is an expression of the Makhnovist "social base" is hard to explain, as both the Bolsheviks and Whites also had their security forces and counter-intelligence agencies.

Certain counter-intelligence agencies to protect military forces are largely classified functions called Counterintelligence Force Protection Source Operations (CFSO).

In 2008, Bulgaria also introduced a new intelligence and counter-intelligence agency, the State Agency for National Security (SANS).

Mr Gudkov, a colonel in the reserves of the Federal Security Service (FSB), the counter-intelligence agency, confirmed Kommersant’s report was accurate.