ABSTRACT
United States counterintelligence is alive but not well. Its triad of three essential functions is: protecting secrets, frustrating attempts by foreign intelligence services to acquire those secrets, and catching Americans who spy for those foreign intelligence services. The first of these functions is in effect broken, that is, not being performed. The second and third operate haphazardly at best, so that counterintelligence is not being effectively conducted by U.S. counterintelligence agencies today. In fact, it has never been effectively conducted.
