A secret plot or scheme designed to defeat or expose another secret plot.
From counter- + intrigue, which comes from French intriguer and Italian intrigare. Intrigue originally meant to complicate or perplex, derived from Latin intricare (to tangle up).
Spies and diplomats live in a world of counterintrigue—imagine discovering your enemy's secret plan and creating an even more clever secret plan to outsmart them!
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