Pentagon’s Plans For A Spy Service To Rival The CIA Have Been Pared Back -- Washington Post
The Pentagon has scaled back its plan to assemble an overseas spy service that could have rivaled the CIA in size, backing away from a project that faced opposition from lawmakers who questioned its purpose and cost, current and former U.S. officials said.
Under the revised blueprint, the Defense Intelligence Agency will train and deploy up to 500 undercover officers, roughly half the size of the espionage network envisioned two years ago when the formation of the Defense Clandestine Service was announced.
The previous plan called for moving as many as 1,000 undercover case officers overseas to work alongside the CIA and the U.S. military’s Joint Special Operations Command on counterterrorism missions and other targets of broad national security concern.
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Update: Pentagon Spy Agency Trimmed After Lawmakers Voice Concern -- Defense News/AFP
My Comment: One must also factor in the costs .... does it make sense to spend money on a new spy-intelligence agency that will be essentially duplicating what the CIA is already doing. It looks like for many U.S. lawmakers .... it does not.
The DIA, CIA & others do not play well.
ReplyDeleteThey have different objectives & are risk averse careerists.
I base my comment on the book Operation Darkheart.
The CIA had officers at Ramadi. When the soldiers left, what are the chances the CIA stayed? Now the closest case officers to Anbar province are probably in the Green Zone, where they are being watched by the Iranians. It probably cramps their style.
Kind of reminds me of the KGB/GRU set up, but to be honest I never really understood their relationship that well.
ReplyDeleteAlso I have answered your questions
DeleteA little inside baseball James .... neither do they.
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ReplyDeleteYes, I know.