Pentagon looks to build a deep-cover spy program to confront China: Report
The plan would expand clandestine human intelligence after the CIA’s NOC ranks have thinned, with officials warning the work is highly risky.
- The Pentagon is planning a deep-cover spying program using nonofficial cover officers to conduct economic warfare against China, according to people familiar with the initiative. Tom Rakusan, a 39-year CIA veteran and adviser to Deputy Defense Secretary Steve Feinberg, is overseeing the planning.
- Roughly 75 percent of all deep-cover CIA officers face retirement by the mid-2020s, according to a covid-era internal report. This attrition-driven gap in traditional agency capacity reportedly prompted the Pentagon to develop its own clandestine human intelligence capabilities.
- Feinberg formed the Economic Defense Unit this year to counter adversaries through economic means, including a $750 million Pentagon investment in a Brazilian rare earth deposit. The EDU remains separate from the new spy initiative.
- Pentagon deputy press secretary Jacob Bliss stated the reported initiative is "built on information that is simply not true." The Defense Department categorically dismissed claims that such a deep-cover program is currently underway.
- In a post-9/11 case in Africa, Joint Special Operations Command-affiliated NOCs were compromised after encountering civilians. This historical incident illustrates extreme dangers inherent in deep-cover work when operatives inadvertently encounter non-intelligence personnel.
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