ABSTRACT
Counterespionage (CE) is often touted as the aristocratic sector of secret operations. In the romantic image the counterespionage man is pitted against his fellow professionals on the other side who are trying to get his nation's secrets. His job is to foil them. It is a true adversary relationship unlike the espionage situation, in which two men work together to purloin secrets. The most accessible level of Soviet espionage is, of course, the agents they recruit and run abroad, and the routine CE operation is to turn or double KGB agents against their employers. Since the main Soviet espionage effort is to plant or recruit agents in the policy levels of the departments of state and defense, or in their communications centers, and in such intelligence organizations as the National Security Agency, the CIA, and the FBI, the KGB has made a determined effort to recruit American citizens abroad.
