There is any kind of consensus that in conditions of global instability, countries with strong intelligence facilities are best suited. However, this is only 50% of the picture, and the second part of this puzzle is an efficient counterintelligence system. And it is precisely this kind of debate about qualitative change in the approach to counterintelligence resources that is happening precisely in the US. We see this through specified critical publications as James Bamford's book “Spy Fail. abroad Spies, Moles, Saboteurs, and the Collapse of America's Counterintelligence”, but besides a scope of media and expert opinion and commentary. Why monitor American struggles with assessment and improvement of the counterintelligence system? due to the fact that all country in the West faces akin challenges and not in the distant future, but here and now.