Avril Haines, then the nominee to become director of National Intelligence, appears before the Senate Intelligence committee during her confirmation hearing in Washington on Jan. 19, 2021. (Melina Mara/Pool via The New York Times)
New York Times: Spy Agencies Turn to Scientists As They Wrestle With Mysteries
WASHINGTON — The nation’s intelligence agencies are looking for ways to increase their expertise in a range of scientific disciplines as they struggle to answer unexplained questions — about the origins of the coronavirus pandemic, unidentified phenomenon observed by Navy pilots and mysterious health ailments affecting spies and diplomats around the world.
Traditional spycraft has failed to make significant progress on those high-profile inquiries, and many officials have grown convinced that they require a better marriage of intelligence-gathering and scientific examination.
Intelligence officials in the Biden administration came into office pledging to work on areas traditionally dominated by science, like studying the national security implications of climate change and future pandemics.
But as the other issues have cropped up, the spy agencies have had to confront questions that are as much scientific mysteries as they are challenges of traditional intelligence collection.
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WNU Editor: This is a surprise. I thought the US intel community already had a division dedicated to scientific and technology/engineering mysteries and/or how to apply science and engineering/technology in their operations. It looks like they do not.
Here is an easy prediction. Do not be surprised in the next intel budget request there will be a classified request for a lot of money to go into the start and operations of such a division.
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Also don't be surprised if that money never goes to starting that division.
what?! wokenology isn't enough?
"This is a surprise." To those who have studied US (un)intelligence for decades and whose loved ones have suffered and paid the ultimate price for their incompetence, this comes as no surprise. Frankly, at this point, anyone these incompetent boobs and political hacks turn to will only reinforce their biases and only enable their ideology and incompetence.
Freddy calm down and call your ex-student!
You have friends, Fred? Amazing! In Intel amazing.
Fred,
You kindly piss off!! You being the tr oll should kindly slink away into the hole you crawled out of!! The utter incompetence of some of your "pals" caused some of my loved ones to pay the ultimate price!!
I've never "sucked up" to Putin. I have pointed out that unnecessary provocations of Russia do not advance our interests and actually undermine them. Depending on which Forbes analysis we consult Putin is either the first or second most powerful leader in the world and as Sun Tru taught understand your enemy and yourself and you prevail every time. Understand neither yor enemy nor yourself and you lose every time!!.
Your "pals" Perhaps can be trusted to confirm more reliable sources but should NEVER be relied on as a primary source for anything. Any scientists they "turn to" will only reinforce their flawed biases further endangering my loved ones. Thank you for sharing!! Now GO AWAY!! Your "pals" have caused enough pain and suffering to innumerable good people.
Who is Fred replying to? 8:20, 8:38, or 8:42?
Does Fred know?
I doubt Fred's boast. They would have calmed him down or something. Fred has lived so long that unless he made new friends in his 50s and 60s, his friends have passed on or retired to The Villages. Even so most would be in The Villages or someplace similar. My relatives lived that long and the friend range was in the 50s to 60s. FBI and CIA have mandatory retirement ages, so figure the odds. I am of the opinion someone lied yet again.
Fred has a merry lil band working with him.
You would think that intelligence agencies would not just have scientists in their rank, but access to some of the brightest minds in the world. We see with Covid19, where early released informantion was just blocked, censored and covered up by the intelligency agencies, this goes to show they don't even understand basic science. Mathematics is one thing, but as someone who studied all the forms of science, there is literally no money there, which highlights to me very little research and devlopment across the board, infact i would argue around 1990s there was a huge drop off, as if the end of the coldwar meant science was a dead art. Taken over by the likes of intelligence based around pusdo science like psychology. Was less about advancing knowledge and more about caging those risks with pysops and undermining and we are at the point where they don't even understand basic science.
I would even argue one of the main reasons the US is so far out of its depth in this regards is you have every day citizens who are extremely well versed in not just a single dicipline, but many.
While the state department has brain experts, has chemistry experts, has microbiologies, there is very little multi dicipline actors. Its just not the way universties work, its just not the way getting a job works.
Its one of the basic principles behind diveristy, you get a bunch of people from different background and throw them all in a room together and boom you have multi dicipline organization but they are not black white yellow brown, gay straight bi pan and even their genders are male female and "other" and bringing them all together, with different diciplines is impossable! They literally have zero common ground to come together on and basic pecking orders and social interactions come into play.
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