Secreting the Secrets

摘要

Although intelligence professionals rarely think about the subject in strictly economic terms, counterintelligence-defined as an effort to protect secret information from unauthorized or unintended disclosure-involves actions designed to prevent the formation of markets. On one side are trusted agents who have access to classified information that is obtained and safeguarded at great expense. On the other are outside forces who want to possess those secrets through any means available. If those trusted agents and