- The practice or employment of spies; the practice of
watching the words and conduct of others, to make discoveries, as spies
or secret emissaries; secret watching.
Espionage Espionage refers to the act of obtaining, delivering, transmitting, communicating, or receiving information about the national defense with an intent, or reason ...
Counterespionage Counterespionage refers to that aspect of counterintelligence which is designed to detect, destroy,
neutralize, exploit, or prevent espionage activities through identification ...
Economic Espionage Act The U.S. Economic Espionage Act, passed in the United States in 1996, does criminalize eh theft of trade secrets.
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