Types of espionage

thumb|Civilian photo technicians (in back of jeep) working for Counter Intelligence Corps are accounted for at a Security checkpoint|checkpoint in [[Potsdam, Germany, on July 14, 1945]] Counterintelligence (counter-intelligence) and its primary subfield, counterespionage (counter-espionage), are activities aimed at protecting an agency's intelligence program from an opposition's intelligence service. It includes gathering information and conducting activities to prevent espionage, sabotage, assassinations or other intelligence activities conducted by, for, or on behalf of foreign powers, organ

gathering and assessment of strategic, tactical, and policy information

act of obtaining secrets and information using methods on the Internet, networks or individual computers

espionage related to the creation of nuclear weapons

method for organizing a group of people, such as resistance fighters, spies, mercenaries, organized crime members, or violent extremists, to make it harder for police, military or other hostile groups to catch them

Sexpionage is the involvement of sexual activity (or the possibility of sexual activity), intimacy, romance, or seduction in espionage. Sex, or the possibility of sex, can function as a distraction, incentive, cover story, or unintended part of any intelligence operation.