Pentagon sets up new spy agency to eavesdrop on a changing world

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/apr/24/pentagon-new-spy-agency

The Pentagon is to create a new spy service to focus on global strategic threats and the challenges posed by countries including Iran, North Korea and China. The move will bring to 17 the total number of intelligence organisations in the US.

The Defence Clandestine Service is supposed to work closely with its counterpart in the CIA, the National Clandestine Service, recruiting spies from the ranks of the Pentagon's Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA) and deploying them globally to boost the flow of intelligence on perceived long-term threats to US national interests.

The US military news website insidedefense reported that the defence department had asked Congress for authority for its spies to work undercover as businessmen when conducting covert operations abroad.

The move by the defence secretary, Leon Panetta, emerged in briefings to US journalists.


how much is this gonna fuckin cost?

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1. The Clandestine Service doesn't "eavesdrop" - they carry out paramilitary and destabilization ops

Just what we need, the successor in interest in DOD HUMINT and Douglas Feith's neocon-dominated Office of Special Programs (OSP), the venues by which "Curveball" inserted Iraq WMD disinformation into Pentagon files and through which AIPAC and Mossad salted Pentagon Iran intelligence data.