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As Amended Through 15 March 2013
interrogators, and video data links. Also called FISINT. See also signals intelligence.
(JP 2-01)
foreign intelligence — Information relating to capabilities, intentions, and activities of
foreign powers, organizations, or persons, but not including counterintelligence, except
for information on international terrorist activities. See also intelligence. (JP 2-0)
foreign intelligence entity — Any known or suspected foreign organization, person, or
group (public, private, or governmental) that conducts intelligence activities to acquire
US information, block or impair US intelligence collection, influence US policy, or
disrupts US systems and programs. The term includes foreign intelligence and security
services and international terrorists. Also called FIE. (JP 2-01.2)
foreign internal defense — Participation by civilian and military agencies of a government
in any of the action programs taken by another government or other designated
organization to free and protect its society from subversion, lawlessness, insurgency,
terrorism, and other threats to its security. Also called FID. (JP 3-22)
foreign military intelligence collection activities — Entails the overt debriefing, by trained
human intelligence personnel, of all US persons employed by the Department of
Defense who have access to information of potential national security value. Also
called FORMICA. (JP 2-01.2)
foreign military sales — That portion of United States security assistance authorized by the
Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended, and the Arms Export Control Act of
1976, as amended. This assistance differs from the Military Assistance Program and
the International Military Education and Training Program in that the recipient provides
reimbursement for defense articles and services transferred. Also called FMS.
(JP 4-08)
foreign national — Any person other than a US citizen, US permanent or temporary legal
resident alien, or person in US custody. (JP 1-0)
foreign nation support — Civil and/or military assistance rendered to a nation when
operating outside its national boundaries during military operations based on
agreements mutually concluded between nations or on behalf of intergovernmental
organizations. Also called FNS. See also host-nation support. (JP 1-06)
foreign object damage — Rags, pieces of paper, line, articles of clothing, nuts, bolts, or
tools that, when misplaced or caught by air currents normally found around aircraft
operations (jet blast, rotor or prop wash, engine intake), cause damage to aircraft
systems or weapons or injury to personnel. Also called FOD. (JP 3-04)
foreign service national — Foreign nationals who provide clerical, administrative,
technical, fiscal, and other support at foreign service posts abroad and are not citizens
of the United States. The term includes third country nationals who are individuals
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