counter-recruiter
n.— «To combat that “desperation recruiting,” a Philadelphia-based organization has trained 300 “counter-recruiters” to follow Army recruiters to high schools across the country and offer students “a second version of the truth about enlistment.”» —“Army Tries to Revise Image in Recruiting” by Al Martinez Los Angeles Times July 17, 1978. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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