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Chapter 8
Counterintelligence
It’s the idea that my entire career has been a waste of time, that’s the part
I hate. Everything I’ve done since I got to this oce, everything we’ve all
been paid to do, he was undoing it. We all could have just stayed home.
FBI Special Agent Kate Burroughs, from the movie Breach,
commenting on the damage done by spy Robert Hanssen
Chapter Objectives
1. Provide a workable denition for counterintelligence (CI), and fully
describe its elements.
2. Explain the role CI plays in providing “decision advantage.”
3. Dene “right to know” and “need to know,” and describe why they
are fundamental parts of CI.
4. Fully dene the dierent levels involved in security clearances and
how one goes about obtaining one.