| Meaning | intelligence activities concerned with identifying and counteracting the threat to security posed by hostile intelligence organizations or by individuals engaged in espionage or sabotage or subversion or terrorism. |
|---|
| Category | terrorism, act of terrorism, terrorist act | The calculated use of violence (or the threat / threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature |
|---|
| Narrower | censoring, censorship, security review | counterintelligence achieved by banning or deleting any information of value to the enemy |
|---|
| counter-sabotage | counterintelligence designed to detect and counteract sabotage |
| counterespionage | spying on the spies |
| countersubversion | The aspect of counterintelligence designed to detect and prevent subversive activities |
| security intelligence | intelligence on the identity and capability and intentions of hostile individuals or organizations that may be engaged in espionage or sabotage or subversion or terrorism |
| Broader | intelligence, intelligence activity, intelligence operation | The operation of gathering information about an enemy / enemy |
|---|
| Spanish | contrainteligencia |
|---|
| Catalan | contraintel·ligència |
|---|
