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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Young)
Mon Oct 30 12:03:20 1995
From: John Young <jya@pipeline.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 1995 11:50:16 -0500
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
10-30-95. Wash Rag:
"Pentagon Plans More Espionage. Business Fronts Abroad
Would Expand Efforts Of a Unified Service."
The Defense Department has merged its separate covert
intelligence operations and plans to expand its
espionage abroad, starting with establishment of phony
businesses overseas as cover, and has formed the Defense
HUMINT (Human Intelligence) Service, or DHS. Under the
fiscal 1996 intelligence authorization bill, the DHS has
been given a trial period of three years to carry on
commercial activities "to provide cover security to
intelligence collection activities undertaken abroad."
The authority "to provide bona fide commercial cover,"
was so that DHS's covert operatives could "withstand
detailed investigation by hostile foreign intelligence
services as well as domestic scrutiny."
... scandal of the Army's Yellow Fruit op ...
CIA case officers are working with DHS on the cover
companies abroad; cooperation is needed because in
recent years military spies overseas inadvertently had
set up relations with foreigners known to be double
agents.
Sen. Bob Kerrey called on CIA Director John M. Deutch to
"develop his human collectors, planning 10 or more years
in advance for their peak usefulness," a reference to
placing them abroad under deep cover for use in future
crises.
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