Active measures
A Soviet and later analytical term for covert or deniable political-influence activities such as forgeries, fronts, and disinformation; the exact Russian term and historical period should be preserved.
#PUBLIC VOCABULARY
Definitions used across intelligence literacy, evidence, oversight, influence, identity, mental health, personas, and game mechanics. A definition explains site usage; it does not replace jurisdiction-specific law or individual clinical assessment.
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A Soviet and later analytical term for covert or deniable political-influence activities such as forgeries, fronts, and disinformation; the exact Russian term and historical period should be preserved.
#The documented set of relevant keyboard, screen-reader, zoom, contrast, motion, switch, voice, caption, semantic-table, and related access paths included or explicitly excluded from evaluation.
#Work-related exhaustion, detachment or cynicism, and reduced effectiveness associated with chronic demands and insufficient recovery.
#A baseline, prior version, static equivalent, or alternative presentation used to determine whether a design changes task success, comprehension, errors, recovery, or access.
#A control or interaction that helps a reader return to selected entities, prior view, time, filters, or evidence after navigation or occlusion.
#A role or identity used to explain a person’s presence, access, travel, or activity. A role does not establish allegiance.
#A version-bound plan that states the task, participant and access coverage, comparison condition, measures, privacy limits, stop rules, correction path, and re-test trigger before evaluation begins.
#A graph that represents original records, transformations, publications, and proposition-specific checks so repeated coverage is not mistaken for independent corroboration.
#Practical strategies that reduce risk and support dignity without requiring one universal recovery goal.
#Tension among roles, values, cover, secrecy, relationships, and sense of self. It is not automatically a diagnosis.
#The broader biography and supporting life history behind a cover identity.
#A civilian cover without diplomatic protection. Real civilian professions must not be treated as presumptive intelligence roles.
#A government or diplomatic role that provides an overt institutional explanation and may carry legal protections.
#Use of overt and covert instruments short of declared war to pursue political objectives; historical definitions may include diplomacy, propaganda, economic measures, and support to foreign groups.
#A personal process involving agency, connection, safety, rights, meaning, health, and participation; not simply symptom disappearance.
#A concrete action that reflects how the intended audience must locate, compare, interpret, decide, correct, or recover within the actual evidence and access context.
#The explicit domain, jurisdiction, time period, evidence revision, question set, and authority boundary covered by a specialist assignment or disposition.
#Unequal exposure, protection, care, or recovery produced by institutions, work, housing, income, language access, environmental burden, and policy rather than inherent group traits.
#A person who reports suspected wrongdoing through a channel that may receive legal or policy protection; the term does not automatically cover every public leak or every jurisdiction.
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