Converse of object

• commit: The couple were charged with conspiracy to commit espionage.

• conduct: We learned from Iraq that you will conduct espionage.

• include: Complete unique mission objectives, including espionage, theft and assassination.

• call: Theft of trade secrets and critical technologies -- what we call economic espionage -- costs our nation upwards of $ 250 billion a year.

• investigate: The organization, which investigates economic espionage in the United States, is the FBI.

• prevent: We can and we will prevent espionage, sabotage, or other actions endangering our national security.

Preposition: on

• behalf: Many were tortured to force them to confess to crimes such as treason or espionage on behalf of the Soviet Union.

Adjective modifier

• industrial: E-mail may also be an ideal medium for industrial espionage.

• Soviet: Lauchlin Currie's Alleged Involvement with Washington Economists in Soviet Espionage " , History of Political Economy, 32:3, Fall 2000, pp.

• atomic: The book's high points are sections relating to what the authors call atomic espionage and the CP Washington spy apparatus.

• alleged: US officials declined to discuss the nature of Saad's alleged espionage.

• corporate: Spy vs. Spy: Corporate Espionage Is the Economy Headed for a Fall?

• economic: These agencies often turned their skills toward economic espionage.

Modifies a noun

• thriller: Krasnoyarsk Surely worthy of the opening chapter of a cold war espionage thriller.

• agent: The CIA use body language in training espionage agents.

• act: He was charged with espionage acts in America against shipping bound for England.

• novel: Having said that, the story itself is more what we should expect from a master of the espionage novel.

• activity: Procter & Gamble has blown the whistle on its own corporate espionage activities.

• operation: He was also at the center of a significant Soviet espionage operation in the UK.

Noun used with modifier

• computer: The bestseller The Cuckoo's Egg described a recent computer espionage attempt.