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+{
+  "values": [
+    {
+      "value": "Ideological",
+      "description": "The threat actor is motivated by non-specific ideological reasons."
+    },
+    {
+      "value": "Ideological - Anti-Corruption",
+      "description": "The threat actor is motivated to attack targets engaging in corruption."
+    },
+    {
+      "value": "Ideological - Anti-Establishment",
+      "description": "The threat actor is motivated to attack established authority."
+    },
+    {
+      "value": "Ideological - Environmental",
+      "description": "The threat actor is motivated to attack targets engaging in actions determental to the environment."
+    },
+    {
+      "value": "Ideological - Ethnic / Nationalist",
+      "description": "The threat actor is motivated to attack targets engaging in actions either against or in favor of a nation state or ethnic group."
+    },
+    {
+      "value": "Ideological - Information Freedom",
+      "description": "The threat actor is motivated by the belief in the freedom of information."
+    },
+    {
+      "value": "Ideological - Religious",
+      "description": "The threat actor is motivated to attack targets associated with a religion."
+    },
+    {
+      "value": "Ideological - Security Awareness"
+    },
+    {
+      "value": "Ideological - Human Rights",
+      "description": "The threat actor is motivated to attack targets engaging in actions either in favor or against human rights."
+    },
+    {
+      "value": "Ego",
+      "description": "The threat actor is motivated by enhancing their own self worth."
+    },
+    {
+      "value": "Financial or Economic",
+      "description": "The threat actor is motivated by financial gain."
+    },
+    {
+      "value": "Military",
+      "description": "The threat actor is motivated by the desire to exercise some military advantage."
+    },
+    {
+      "value": "Opportunistic",
+      "description": "The threat actor is motivated by the relative vulnerability of the target."
+    },
+    {
+      "value": "Political",
+      "description": "The threat actor is motivated by the desire to exercise some political advantage."
+    }
+  ],
+  "version" : 1,
+  "description": "The MotivationVocab is the default STIX vocabulary for expressing the motivation of a threat actor.",
+  "author": "STIX",
+  "stix": "1.2.1",
+  "type": "threat-actor-motivation-vocabulary"
+}