countersubversive

adj, noun — 2 senses

adj

Etymology From counter- + subversive.

Opposing subversive activities.

noun

Etymology From counter- + subversive.

One who opposes subversive activities.

As countersubversives saw it, queer artists worked hand in hand (literally, it seemed) with political subversives while their decadent art undermined America's cultural offensive. These suspicions went public in 1953 […]2007, Michael S. Sherry, Gay Artists in Modern American Culture: An Imagined Conspiracy:

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