-Caveat Lector- <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"> </A> -Cui Bono?- from:alt.conspiracy As, always, Caveat Lector Om K ----- Click Here: <A HREF="aol://5863:126/alt.conspiracy:588697">CIA's New Directions</A> ----- Subject: CIA's New Directions From: Ralph McGehee <A HREF="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">[EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> Date: Sat, Jan 15, 2000 7:00 AM Message-id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------ECB5FBCE52A271F52A7A54E2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --------------ECB5FBCE52A271F52A7A54E2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; name="Analy" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline; filename="Analy" CIA, New Technology, Directions, and the World Wide Web The CIA's Directorate of Intelligence per critics is resistant to openly available data and all sorts of overt expertise -- but DCI Tenet is adding analysts in key areas and expanding training, language instruction and travel in an attempt to build analytic depth. Reformers said CIA analysts are obsessed with secrets at the expense of open sources. Tenet said this [is not true]. The entire op, is migrating to the World Wide Web. Analysts now have data mining tools unavailable in the private sector and technology is being developed so that analysts will be able to sift through 10 times as much data as analysts do now. All CIA estimates now include input from academics and other outside experts, a sea change in the agency's analytic process. Washington Post 1/7/00. Mr. Louie a Chinese-American to head a CIA venture called In-Q-Tel openly funded by CIA. DCI Tenet said the pace of technological change "dictates a change in the way the intelligence community does business." Mr. Louie is to build In-Q-Tel into an organization of about 30 people. One of In-Q-Tel's tasks is developing ways to sift data on Internet, regardless of the form or language. In-Q-Tel will also develop tools to make the Internet secure. Christian Science Monitor 1/14/00. The above items tell of important changes in the CIA's direction and analytical efforts. These changes are for the most part welcome if the CIA and the rest of the intelligence community (IC) are to move effectively into the new millennium. One very large caution, however, if these changes actually are occurring, what about politicization? One can mine the rich Internet and other open source lodes but if all you seek are justifications for policy, then the effort is useless. One recent example: the CIA wanted an indication that the Western provinces of China were about to break up that country ALA the USSR. A CIA-contract scholar, Gary Fuller, produced a study showing there was little likelihood of this. The study ran counter to CIA's wishes/plans so it fired him. Another example: U.S. policy now is to defeat the "narco-terrorists" of Colombia and surrounding countries. Policy says this is a counterdrug operation -- when in effect it is mostly a counterinsurgency operation. Does the CIA's intelligence reflect the reality of poor peasants forced from their land by the rich, farming a hard-scrabble land to grow cocaine-producing cacao plants who now are the financial foundation of the FARC rebels? Or, does CIA intelligence repeat endlessly the "narco-terrorist" justifications for killing them? If so its information is worse than useless. Also does CIA intelligence reflect that traditionally U.S. counterinsurgency operations magnified many times over the drugs reaching the U.S. and other countries? Does CIA intelligence reflect that we are dangerously close to repeating the Vietnam trauma in Colombia and surrounding countries? In Vietnam the CIA ignored massive amounts of reality, while justifying the war. The truths could be found in published writings of Vietnam communist leaders, the studies of some academics and the realities of the war itself -- all ignored or subsumed by the CIA. In academia, the CIA supported hundreds of policy-supporting scholars while black-listing those who would not repeat its "truths." Subverting the media, international and domestic, was a major task of CIA during any number of Cold War situations, including Vietnam, Iran, the USSR, Afghanistan, China and others. Can CIA analysts and operators now report truthfully with their "open" charter or must its programs support its policies? The jury is out (?) but I remain highly skeptical. Ralph McGehee <A HREF="http://come.to/CIABASE">http://come.to/CIABASE</A> ----- Aloha, He'Ping, Om, Shalom, Salaam. Em Hotep, Peace Be, All My Relations. Omnia Bona Bonis, Adieu, Adios, Aloha. Amen. Roads End <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance—not soap-boxing! 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