http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20050305-111738-8027r.htm
"U.S. targets spy services abroad"
By Bill Gertz
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
March 6, 2005
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "COLLEGE STATION, Texas -- The Bush administration has adopted a new counterintelligence strategy that calls for "attacking" foreign spy services and the spy components of terrorist groups before they can strike, a senior U.S. intelligence official said yesterday."
" ...a new counterintelligence strategy that calls for "attacking" foreign spy services and the spy components of terrorist groups before they can strike, a senior U.S. intelligence official said yesterday."
Foreign spy services points clearly to state entities. Wonder which will surface first (aside from Syria & Iran which are given.)I'm also wondering if the ill fated Italian intelligence bringing the Italian journalist to the airport might have been a counterintelligence suicide mission for another state or entity.