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#Counterterrorism

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People (1)

  • Carter Cornick FBI agent who received informant reports on Puerto Rican independence groups, ran the Chilbom investigation of the 1976 Letelier and Moffitt murders, and in 1988 founded Counter Terrorism Consultants with the case's prosecutor.

Organizations (9)

  • Combating Terrorism Center at West Point Privately funded counterterrorism research center at the U.S. Military Academy, founded in February 2003 with backing from Vincent Viola, which publishes the CTC Sentinel and releases captured al-Qaida documents.
  • Counter Terrorism Policing National network of British police counter-terrorism units, with eleven regional units under a London headquarters, which investigated the 764, Fascist Forge and Feuerkrieg Division cases.
  • Europol European Union law enforcement agency in The Hague, governed by Regulation 2016/794, whose European Counter Terrorism Centre has supported national cases against the Terrorgram Collective, The Base and the Com network.
  • GSG 9 Grenzschutzgruppe 9 (GSG 9) is West Germany's federal counterterrorism unit, established in 1972 after the Munich Olympic Massacre, best known for its October 18, 1977, assault on hijacked Lufthansa Flight 181 at Mogadishu Airport that freed all 86 hostages with no hostage deaths.
  • GWU Program on Extremism George Washington University research program founded in June 2015 inside a homeland security center with a board of former officials, led by Lorenzo Vidino, who consulted for the Swiss firm Alp Services in 2018.
  • Middlebury Institute CTEC Research center at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies in Monterey, founded in 2018, whose work on extremist language models, Telegram networks and games drew on OpenAI access, DHS grants and Logically funding.
  • NCITE DHS Center of Excellence at the University of Nebraska Omaha, created by a ten-year cooperative agreement announced in February 2020, which also evaluates DHS prevention grants and had an April 2025 termination notice paused.
  • Royal Canadian Mounted Police Canada's national police force, whose Security Service gave way to CSIS in 1984, which ran the Project Abbreviation inquiry into PROMIS and now prosecutes members of 764 and Terrorgram.
  • Tech Against Terrorism Counter-terrorism project begun in 2016 with the UN Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate and ICT4Peace, now run through Adam Hadley's Online Harms Foundation and funded by Canada, the GIFCT and other governments.

Concepts (2)

  • Specially Designated Global Terrorist U.S. sanctions designation created by Executive Order 13224 of September 2001, first applied to a white supremacist group with the Russian Imperial Movement in 2020 and to the Terrorgram Collective in 2025.
  • Terrorism Act 2000 United Kingdom statute defining terrorism, under which the Home Secretary proscribes organisations; since 2016 it has been used against National Action, Sonnenkrieg Division, Atomwaffen, The Base and Terrorgram.