security service
Guards for hire
A security service is an organization responsible for protecting a nation's interests against espionage, terrorism, or internal threats—distinct from intelligence agencies that gather foreign information.
The term also applies to private companies providing guards, surveillance, or protection: The building contracts with a security service for overnight monitoring.
- counterintelligenceDefense against enemy espionage
- guardWatchful defensive attention
- intelligence agencyOrganization gathering secret information
- CIAU.S. foreign intelligence service
- background checkInvestigation of someone's history
need to know · espionage · intelligence gathering · MI5 · surveillance · classified information · spycraft · double agent · deep cover · clandestine operations · counterterrorism · Mossad · search · dead drop · watchlist · covert operations · classified · protection
- oppressionoppression, tyranny, racism, repression, secret police
- Spy AgenciesCIA, MI6, MI5, KGB, Mossad
- premium servicesconcierge, personal assistant, private chef, valet, personal shopper
- governmentgovernment, ministries, legislature, judiciary, executive branch
- CORBAPOA, stub, skeleton, servant, marshalling
security servicecriminal syndicate
Organized group committing crimes
criminal enterprise · organized crime · enemy combatants · saboteurs · hackers
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