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APPENDIX C - TERRORISM SPECIFIC TERMS
Antiterrorism: Defensive measures taken to reduce the vulnerabilities of personnel, their dependents, facilities, and equipment to terrorist acts.
Counterintelligence: Information gathered and activities conducted to protect against espionage and other clandestine activities; sabotage; international terrorist activities or assassinations. Also conducted for, or on behalf of foreign powers, organizations or persons, but not including personnel, physical, document or communication security programs.
Counterterrorism: Offensive measures taken to respond to terrorist acts to include the gathering of information and threat analysis in support of these measures.
Crazies-Pathological: Mentally ill persons who commit terrorists acts during periods of psychiatric disturbances.
Criminal Terrorists: Persons who commit terrorist acts for purely criminal reasons or personal gain.
Establishment Terrorists: Government-sponsored or tolerated actions against its own people and other opposition.
Extraterritorial Terrorists: Basically transnational, they operate against targets in a third country.
Foreign Intelligence: Information relating to the capabilities, intentions, and activities of foreign powers, organizations or persons, but not including counterintelligence except for information on international terrorist activities.
Foreign Power: Any foreign government, foreign-based political party, foreign military force, foreign-based terrorist group, or any organization composed, in major part, of any such entity or entities.
International Terrorist: Terrorism transcending international boundaries. Activity varies in the carrying out of the act, the purpose of the act, the nationalities of the victims, or the resolution of the incident. These acts are usually designed to attract wide publicity to focus attention on the existence, cause, or demands of the terrorists.
