Here are Pentagon men and secret programs
What Newsweek has revealed about the Pentagon. The article by Giuseppe Gagliano
According to a new report, the US Department of Defense maintains a "secret army" of over 60,000 agents, many of whom work around the world in a clandestine fashion, with fake identities and fabricated backgrounds. Newsweek , which released the report on Monday, said Pentagon forces are "more than ten times larger" than the Central Intelligence Agency's underground wing, commonly associated with conducting covert operations overseas.
According to William Arkin, author of the Newsweek report, Pentagon secret agents are part of a larger US government effort that provides undercover government agents the ability to operate nationwide and around the world without fear of their connections. with spy or military agencies being discovered by online investigators. Some of these agents perform clandestine duties under their real names, Arkin says, but without having any formal ties to the US government, or even their country of citizenship.
Others operate under fabricated identifiers, which, according to the report, are created by the Pentagon's Operational Planning and Travel Intelligence Center. Its purpose is to alter the databases of US government agencies, such as the US Citizenship and Immigration Services or the Border and Customs Protection Agency, in order to protect the fabricated identities of secret agents. . These operators are also equipped with technologies that allow them to circumvent facial recognition and other biometric identification measures, including fingerprint scanners, according to Newsweek .
Another part of the program consists of private sector firms working with the Pentagon to provide its clandestine agents with contractual cover. These allow agents to work overseas under civilian cover and without any official connection to US embassies or military bases, according to Newsweek .
The report says that the most important component of the Pentagon's program is made up of members of the Special Operations Forces. The remaining components of the program are made up of military intelligence and counterintelligence specialists with a variety of skills, including specialists in linguistics and computer operations. The latter form the "fastest growing group" within the program and are tasked with gathering information about online goals, as well as engaging in influence campaigns using social media platforms around the world.
It is evident that a "hand" has appropriately filtered out this information in order to send through the famous American periodical a precise warning to the current enemies of the United States, that is to Russia and China . But it is frankly doubtful – especially by observing with extreme attention to the espionage operations carried out by both China and Russia on a global level – that these two competitors of the United States are worried.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/ecco-uomini-e-programmi-segreti-del-pentagono/ on Mon, 24 May 2021 07:51:22 +0000.