Pentagon looks to build a deep-cover spy program to confront China: Report
The classified office would develop hacking and deception tools to slow foreign weapons programs, and officials estimate linked contracts could exceed $1.5 billion.
- 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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technewstube.comThe Pentagon has a covert tech sabotage agency that they really don’t want you to know about — and there are big questions about its oversight
Disruption of foreign tech through disinformation, cyberattacks, and sabotage could be the future of this new Pentagon office.
The Pentagon intends to expand its spying capabilities through a secret program aimed at economic confrontation with China and other U.S. competitors, according to Washington Post. The initiative would involve the use of agents operating under the identities of entrepreneurs or employees in the private environment, without visible links with the U.S. administration.
Pete Hegseth’s secret ‘movie-level spy craft’ agency sparks oversight alarm: report
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's Pentagon has spent months quietly standing up a new covert agency that has insiders worried about who's watching it.The Technology Support Office, or TSO, was set up in April to secretly undermine rival nations' defense technology, Politico reported Thursday, citing a dozen current and former national security officials. No senior Pentagon official has mentioned it publicly.Deputy Defense Secretary Steve Feinberg…
Under the guidance of a former top CIA agent, the US Department of Defense is planning a shadowy deep cover program, recruiting businessmen to steal the secrets of its geopolitical rivals. The post Pentagon and CIA “War” to Create the New Generation of Spies appeared first on in.gr.
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