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counterproliferation |
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Those actions (e.g., detect and monitor, prepare to conduct counterproliferation operations, offensive operations, weapons of mass destruction, active defense, and passive defense) taken to defeat the threat and/or use of weapons of mass destruction against the United States, our military forces, friends, and allies. Also called CP. See also nonproliferation. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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On or about June 12, 2003, Libby was advised by the Vice President of the United States that Wilson's wife worked at the Central Intelligence Agency in the Counterproliferation Division," the indictment says. These include unconventional warfare (UW) foreign internal defense (FID) direct action (DA) special reconnaissance (SR) counterterrorism (CT) counterproliferation of WMD (CP) psychological operations (PsyOp) information operations (IO) and civil affairs operations (CAO). These folks--Will Tobey and Susan Cook, working under the NSC's senior director for counterproliferation, Robert Joseph--were asked to come up with examples and language that would illustrate the threat posed by Iraq more vividly than did the National Intelligence Estimate. |
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