deconspiration

Disclosure of classified intelligence information to unauthorised persons. Every case of deconspiration (involving both intelligence staff and members of their families, as well as secret collaborators) had to be immediately reported to the superior. This report, supplemented by an analysis of the causes of deconspiration with a proposal for necessary measures, was made by the residents and department chiefs at the headquarters of the Department of Foreign Counterintelligence.

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