Counter-espionage increases cost of passive effects?

eonwe

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Hi!

I played one game against my friend where I had constantly much more espionage points than my friend.
This is based on espionage screen where cost shown for spying missions was something like 80%.
Still he could see my demographics and teches and I couldn't see either of those.
Cost to see his demographics and tech was more than twice the cost for my other neighbours.
He was not technologically more advanced and did not have a larger empire than me.
After the game he said that he had been using counter-espionage missions through the whole game.
I thought that counter-espionage only increases the cost of active missions.
This is based on civilopedia wording which I think suggests that, I am now at work so I cannot verify it.
Is this true and working as intended or did I miss something?
 
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