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Counterintelligence [r]: Countermeasures to foreign intelligence organizations collecting intelligence against one's own side. ^[e]

Direction finding [r]: Finding the location of an electromagnetic emitter, either by the crossed bearings from directional antennas from various known points, or by time of arrival or time difference of arrival of the signal at those points ^[e]

Federal Bureau of Investigation [r]: The principal U.S. Federal police agency, part of the U.S. Department of Justice and the United States intelligence community, who has arrest authority, and is the primary authority for a variety of domestic crimes, civilian counterespionage within the United States, and organized crime ^[e]
Organs of State Security [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Committee for State Security [r]: Usually known as the KGB, one of Organs of State Security of the Soviet Union, with extensive responsibilities in intelligence (information gathering), border security, counterintelligence and suppression of dissent; split up in the Russian Federation with counterintelligence in the FSB and foreign intelligence in the SVR ^[e]
Security Service [r]: British domestic counterintelligence service, without police powers ^[e]
Reich Main Security Administration [r]: Add brief definition or description
- SD [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Gestapo [r]: The secret political police force of Nazi Germany, a state rather than party organization, reporting both to the SS (Party) and Ministry of the Interior (State) ^[e]
Abwehr [r]: German military counterintelligence and external intelligence in World War II, eventually absorbed into the Nazi party security apparatus other than purely military support ^[e]
Shin Bet [r]: Israeli domestic intelligence, roughly equivalent to the British Security Service (MI5) ^[e]