# Counterintelligence Risk **Domain:** Intelligence / Security / Threat Assessment **Doc Type:** Canonical Concept Node **Maturity:** Developed ## Definition **Counterintelligence risk** is the possibility that foreign intelligence services, proxies or other hostile actors will gain access to personnel, information, systems, operations or relationships in ways that enable espionage, influence, coercion or compromise. ## Spyware Context [[wiki/Executive Order 14093|Executive Order 14093]] treats foreign commercial-spyware access to U.S. government systems or personnel as a potentially significant counterintelligence or security risk. ## War With Empire Context [[articles/war with empire/The Real Deep State Is British|The Real Deep State Is British]] broadens the question beyond unauthorized access. [[wiki/Elite Penetration|Elite penetration]], [[wiki/Counterintelligence Capture|counterintelligence capture]], and [[wiki/Diaspora Strategic Memory|diaspora strategic memory]] require analysts to distinguish documented access, durable formation, structural compatibility, and unsupported attribution rather than treating them as interchangeable claims. ## See Also [[wiki/Advanced Persistent Threat|Advanced Persistent Threat]], [[wiki/Cyber Attribution|Cyber Attribution]], [[wiki/Elite Penetration|Elite Penetration]], [[wiki/Counterintelligence Capture|Counterintelligence Capture]], [[wiki/National Security|National Security]]