The lobby of the CIA Headquarters Building in McLean, Virginia, August 14, 2008. Credit: Reuters/Larry Downing
New York Times: C.I.A. to Be Overhauled to Fight Modern Threats
LANGLEY, Va. — John O. Brennan, director of the Central Intelligence Agency, is planning to reassign thousands of undercover spies and intelligence analysts into new departments as part of a restructuring of the 67-year-old agency, a move he said would make it more successful against modern threats and crises.
Drawing from disparate sources — from the Pentagon to corporate America — Mr. Brennan’s plan would partly abandon the agency’s current structure that keeps spies and analysts separate as they target specific regions or countries. Instead, C.I.A. officers will be assigned to 10 new mission centers focused on terrorism, weapons proliferation, the Middle East and other areas with responsibility for espionage operations, intelligence analysis and covert actions.
More News On The CIA Being Overhauled
CIA chief announces across-the-board agency reorganization with focus on cyber espionage to close intelligence gaps -- AP
CIA plans major reorganization and a focus on digital espionage -- Washington Post
CIA to make sweeping changes, focus more on cyber ops: agency chief -- Reuters
CIA director Brennan orders major overhaul -- BBC
CIA Director to Revamp Agency Structure, Looking for Collaboration -- WSJ
CIA Reorganizes to Speed Analysis, Focus More on Cyber-Es -- Bloomberg
CIA Plans Major Overhaul -- VOA
CIA director orders major shake-up -- The Hill
CIA Director John Brennan Announces Major Shake-Up Of US Spy Agency -- IBTimes
CIA to make sweeping changes, focus on cyber operations -- Detusche Welle
CIA Restructuring Adds New Cyber Focus -- Defense One
The CIA will reorganize to increase its focus on cybersecurity -- The Verge
CIA reshuffle features ‘mission centers’, cyber-warfare to 'cover the entire universe' -- RT
Cyber CSI May Be TV Fiction, But Cyber CIA is Anything But -- Sputnik
We’re All Spies Now: CIA Director Announces Major Restructuring -- The Intercept
2 comments:
Not to forget changes in the internal control mechanisms that monitor agents and staff to ensure they don't squeal to the press. Maybe they will be chipped and monitored 7/24, if they already aren't. If they are, they could be re-chipped with one that can be detonated, whenever.
I've been through lots of
reorgs in the corporate
world and watched multiple
reorgs of the intel world
(especially after the 9/11
Commission Report). Things
never get streamlined, the
bureaucracy only gets bigger
and more byzantine.
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