Example sentences for: espionage

How can you use “espionage” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Because the conduct of espionage was a high-risk activity, decisions on the clandestine targeting, recruitment, handling, and termination of secret sources and the dissemination of collected information required Washington's approval and action.

  • The piece claims that China has successfully devised a new espionage strategy that can "consistently defeat our ability to investigate or prosecute spying offenses."

  • The LAT notes that this is the latest in a long string of espionage arrests of mid- and low-level military intelligence personnel, and the paper suggests these have been facilitated by U.S. access to Russian intelligence files.

  • The NYT gives above-the-fold treatment to allegations by the former counterintelligence director of Los Alamos that the espionage investigation of Wen Ho Lee is racist.

  • Zhu, who is visiting Washington, told reporters that 1) he has "no knowledge" of the alleged nuclear espionage; 2) he is "impatient" to improve China's human rights practices; and 3) if he had meant to influence the 1996 U.S. presidential election, he would have shelled out a lot more than the $300,000 China is accused of funneling to the Clinton campaign.


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