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| | NASA Ames Protective Services Office, Safeguards & Counterintelligence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) |
 | | The Ames Research Center's Safeguards and Counterintelligence Office (SCIO) establishes and maintains a proactive Counterintelligence (CI) program to detect, deter and neutralize incidents of actual, attempted or probable acts of subversion, sabotage, terrorism, or espionage directed at Ames Research Center employees, technologies and resources, or the actual, attempted or probable compromise of national security information. |
 | | Counterintelligence is the process of detecting, deterring and neutralizing individuals who would engage in espionage, sabotage, subversion, terrorist activities or the intentional compromise of national security information on behalf of a foreign power or for personal gratification. |
 | | Terrorism is the unlawful use of force against persons or property to intimidate or coerce a government, the civilian population, or any segment thereof, in furtherance of political or social objectives. |
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