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New Unit of DIA Will Take the Offensive On Counterintelligence
WP ^ | 08/18/08 | Walter Pincus
Posted on August 17, 2008 9:59:02 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
New Unit of DIA Will Take the Offensive On Counterintelligence -
By Walter Pincus
Monday, August 18, 2008; A09
The Defense Intelligence Agency’s newly created Defense Counterintelligence and Human Intelligence Center is going to have an office authorized for the first time to carry out “strategic offensive counterintelligence operations,” according to Mike Pick, who will direct the program.
Such covert offensive operations are carried out at home and abroad against people known or suspected to be foreign intelligence officers or connected to foreign intelligence or international terrorist activities — but not against U.S. citizens, said Toby Sullivan, director of counterintelligence for James R. Clapper Jr., the undersecretary of defense for intelligence.
Sullivan and Pick, who is chief of the agency’s Counterintelligence Human Intelligence Enterprise Management Office, spoke to reporters during a Pentagon briefing this month.
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Hmmm....
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2063570/posts
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,24198305-5005961,00.html
“Britain ‘recruiting gay spies’”
Article from: Agence France-Presse
From correspondents in London
August 18, 2008 10:36am
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “BRITAIN’S domestic intelligence agency MI5 is actively recruiting gay spies and wants its staff to be more open about their sexuality, the Financial Times has reported.”