Consideraciones de contrainteligencia en la formulación de estrategias de seguridad: utopía o evolución pragmática/ Counterintelligence Considerations in the Formulation of Security Strategies: Utopia or Pragmatic Evolution

The article presents the activities of the counterintelligence in a context of doctrinal update, in order to establish the operational procedures that allow this activity to be more visible, given that it defends state interests and therefore should be associated with activities governed by legality, as well as public control. A descriptive process of such activities is proposed, considering some countries in the Andean region, North America and Europe, as well as the availability of legal and doctrinal sustenance. This allows knowing the trends currently in force in this field. It also allows to describe and propose possible strategies and the corresponding lines of action in the field 1 General de División en servicio pasivo del Ejército ecuatoriano, instructor invitado de la Universidad de Fuerzas Armadas del Ecuador, j.castillo.ecuador@gmail.com, orcid.org/0000-0001-8085-7781 doi.org/10.17141/urvio.26.2020.4226 8 U RV IO , R ev is ta L at in oa m er ic an a de E st ud io s de S eg ur id ad , N o. 2 6, e ne ro -a br il 20 20 p p. 823 • R EL A SE D O R y FL A C SO S ed e Ec ua do r • IS SN 1 39 042 99 (e n lín ea ) y 1 39 036 91 Consideraciones de contrainteligencia en la formulación de estrategias de seguridad Jaime Castillo-Arias URVIO, Revista Latinoamericana de Estudios de Seguridad No. 26 • enero-abril 2020 • pp.8-23 ISSN 1390-4299 (en línea) y 1390-3691 9 of counterintelligence, systematically controlled by the states that require them. With this background, there is a need to configure counterintelligence strategies and lines of action, which would improve security and external support to better address risk factors and threats that would affect the society, the state and its institutions.