CIA and Pentagon Fusion Revolutionizes Modern US Covert Action Complex
by Justin O’Connell, Dollar Vigilante:
The Pentagon will expand its spy network over five years to rival the CIA in size, according to US officials, as it constructs the thus far classified Defense Clandestine Service or DCS. The project will “transform” the Defense Intelligence Agency from a Cold War, multiple-war agency to include increased operations against Islamists in Africa, North Korea-Iran weapons transfers, and Chinese military modernization that is now underway. Once completed, the DIA will have approximately 1,600 so-called “collectors” the world over who will be “closely aligned” with the CIA and elite military commando units. As the Washington Post notes, “an unprecedented total for an agency whose presence abroad numbered in the triple digits in recent years.”
Military attachés and other uniformed agents will be deployed during this “Five Year Plan” alongside a cohort of clandestine operatives. The new operatives will be CIA-trained and work often with the US Joint Special Operations Command, although their orders will come from the Department of Defense.
“This is not a marginal adjustment for DIA,” the agency’s director, Lt. Gen. Michael T. Flynn, said at a recent conference, during which he vaguely outlined the plan. “This is a major adjustment for national security.”
2012-12-07 14:40:08
Source: http://sgtreport.com/2012/12/cia-and-pentagon-fusion-revolutionizes-modern-us-covert-action-complex/
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