DIA

Biometrics: A new intelligence discipline-Identity Intelligence Project Office

May 13, 2013

Source: Defense News The intelligence community is pushing to make biometrically enabled intelligence — the art of identifying people by fingerprints, digital mugshots, iris scans or DNA — a regular part of business. Biometrics has evolved dramatically during the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts, and is used in countless manhunts, but the discipline has not been [...]

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The Story of How U.S. Special Forces Infiltrated Pakistan

March 8, 2013

Editor’s Note: Missed this report from last year.It is a relevant story of CIA/JSOC operations into the sovereign nation of Pakistan. It is especially important with the current geopolitical implications of the proposed  Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline and recent takeover of Gwadar Port by the Chinese. U.S. support of Judallah  Balochistan separatists places the  future of Gwadar Port and [...]

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U.S. Micro Military Operations: Special Forces advising a force from Turkey and other Islamic nations to secure Syria chemical weapons

December 4, 2012
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Source: France 24 The United States could try to secure Syria’s chemical arsenal by sending in special forces and staging bombing raids but any military action would be high-risk with a chance that weapons might fall into the wrong hands, experts and former officials said Tuesday. A more plausible scenario could see small teams of [...]

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DIA sending hundreds more spies overseas

December 1, 2012
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Source: Washington Post The Pentagon will send hundreds of additional spies overseas as part of an ambitious plan to assemble an espionage network that rivals the CIA in size, U.S. officials said. The project is aimed at transforming the Defense Intelligence Agency, which has been dominated for the past decade by the demands of two [...]

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US Military Confronts Nightmare Scenario Of Syrian Collapse

July 3, 2012
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What could a Syrian collapse unleash? So far, “the chemical weapons are under pretty tight control,” said Jeffrey White, who spent decades as a Mideast specialist at the Defense Intelligence Agency before joining the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. “But in the chaos of the breakdown of the regime and the military command structure, [...]

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Pentagon Pushes For Greater Spy Powers; Wants To Run Businesses, Like CIA

April 20, 2012

Source: AOL Defense “Expansion of this authority is necessary to permit DOD to conduct revenue-generating commercial activities to protect such operations and would provide an important safeguard for U.S. military forces conducting hazardous operations abroad,” the request for legislation says. It was first reported by my colleagues at Inside Defense. But a former senior intelligence [...]

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