Iranian Intelligence Is Twice As Large As The CIA -- Front Page
The CIA does not release any official numbers on the number of employees who work there, but estimates generally place it at somewhere around 15,000. Meanwhile a Pentagon report estimates the size of Iranian intelligence at around 30,000 or twice as large.
Iran’s intelligence service includes 30,000 people who are engaged in covert and clandestine activities that range from spying to stealing technology to terrorist bombings and assassination, according to a Pentagon report.
The report concluded that Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security, known as MOIS, is “one of the largest and most dynamic intelligence agencies in the Middle East.”
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My Comment: I would add .... twice the size and I suspect at a fraction of the budget. Mind you .... the U.S. does have other intelligence assets and agencies ranging from the Pentagon, State Department, NSA, etc. .... see here for the entire list. If you add everything .... the U.S. would then dwarf what Iran has and/or anyone else in the world.
2 comments:
Twice as large? So...
Their probably so big to make up for their, emm, shortcomings...
If we do not know how many we have in our own CIA why should we believe what someone tells us Iran has? If, as noted in comments, we include this or that, then do we assume Iran figure includes their equivalent services?
that said, we also have a hell of a lot of contractors, not figured into this.
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