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• Espionage — Spy and Secret agent redirect here. For other uses, see Spy (disambiguation) and Secret agent (disambiguation). For other uses, see Espionage (disambiguation). Espionage or spying involves an individual obtaining information that is considered… …   Wikipedia

• espionage — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ corporate, economic, industrial ▪ The big computer companies are very worried about industrial espionage. ▪ international ▪ American, Britis …   Collocations dictionary

• espionage — es·pi·o·nage / es pē ə ˌnäzh, ˌnäj, nij/ n: the practice of gathering, transmitting, or losing through gross negligence information relating to the defense of the U.S. with the intent that or with reason to believe that the information will be… …   Law dictionary

• espionage — [n] spying intelligence, reconnaissance, secret service, shadowing, tailing, undercover operations, undercover work, underground activities; concepts 348,412 …   New thesaurus

• Espionage —    During the Soviet era, the Kremlin developed a global espionage network, using agents of the KGB, the military’s secret service apparatus, and Communist sympathizers in Third World countries. The main target of such activities was the United… …   Historical Dictionary of the Russian Federation

• Espionage Act of 1917 — The Espionage Act of 1917 was a United States federal law passed shortly after entering World War I, on June 15, 1917, which made it a crime for a person:* to convey information with intent to interfere with the operation or success of the armed… …   Wikipedia

• espionage — noun Etymology: French espionnage, from Middle French, from espionner to spy, from espion spy, from Old Italian spione, from spia, of Germanic origin; akin to Old High German spehōn to spy more at spy Date: 1793 the practice of spying or using… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• Espionage Act — The federal statute which denounces and provides for the punishment of actual espionage and deals in addition with a wide variety of matters relating to and connected with the national defense and war activities of the United States. 50 USC §§ 31 …   Ballentine's law dictionary

• History of Soviet and Russian espionage in the United States — Since the late 1920s, the Soviet Union, through its OGPU and NKVD intelligence services, used Russians and foreign born nationals as well as Communist and left leaning Americans to perform espionage activities in the United States.Haynes, John… …   Wikipedia

• Lawrence Franklin espionage scandal — The Lawrence Franklin espionage scandal (also known as the AIPAC espionage scandal) refers to allegations that information regarding United States policy towards Iran was passed to Israel through Lawrence Franklin via staffers of the American… …   Wikipedia

• Economic Espionage Act of 1996 — The Economic Espionage Act of 1996 (usc|18|1831|1839) makes the theft or misappropriation of a trade secret a federal crime. This law contains two sections criminalizing two sorts of activity. The first, usc|18|1831(a), criminalizes the… …   Wikipedia