CIA spies helping Syrian rebels improve military organization
By ROBERT TILFORD / September 7, 2012
The Washington Post is reporting that the “U.S. is ramping up its presence at Syria’s Turkish border, sending more spies and diplomats to help advise the rebel forces in their mismatched fight against the better armed Syrian regime”
According to the article the spies are from "the CIA and other agencies."
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is an independent civilian intelligence agency of the United States government. It is an executive agency and reports directly to the Director of National Intelligence with responsibility for providing national security intelligence assessment to senior United States policymakers.
Intelligence-gathering is performed by non-military commissioned civilian intelligence agents, many of whom are trained to avoid tactical situations. The CIA also oversees and sometimes engages in tactical and covert activities at the request of the President of the United States
The spies probably come from the CIA’s National Clandestine Service (NCS).
The mission of the National Clandestine Service (NCS) is to "strengthen national security and foreign policy objectives through the clandestine collection of human intelligence (HUMINT) and Covert Action", according to the CIA website.
The spies have "helped improve rebels’ political organizing skills as well as their military organization”, the article said.
The Washington Post cites un-named source who did not elaborate on the subject.
The officials "spoke anonymously because they were not authorized to discuss the plans publicly." In what seems like another one of those "leaks" of top secret information again coming from the Obama Administration?
Other reports suggest the spies may also be feeding the rebels intelligence information on Syrian troop movements.
By ROBERT TILFORD / September 7, 2012
The Washington Post is reporting that the “U.S. is ramping up its presence at Syria’s Turkish border, sending more spies and diplomats to help advise the rebel forces in their mismatched fight against the better armed Syrian regime”
According to the article the spies are from "the CIA and other agencies."
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is an independent civilian intelligence agency of the United States government. It is an executive agency and reports directly to the Director of National Intelligence with responsibility for providing national security intelligence assessment to senior United States policymakers.
Intelligence-gathering is performed by non-military commissioned civilian intelligence agents, many of whom are trained to avoid tactical situations. The CIA also oversees and sometimes engages in tactical and covert activities at the request of the President of the United States
The spies probably come from the CIA’s National Clandestine Service (NCS).
The mission of the National Clandestine Service (NCS) is to "strengthen national security and foreign policy objectives through the clandestine collection of human intelligence (HUMINT) and Covert Action", according to the CIA website.
The spies have "helped improve rebels’ political organizing skills as well as their military organization”, the article said.
The Washington Post cites un-named source who did not elaborate on the subject.
The officials "spoke anonymously because they were not authorized to discuss the plans publicly." In what seems like another one of those "leaks" of top secret information again coming from the Obama Administration?
Other reports suggest the spies may also be feeding the rebels intelligence information on Syrian troop movements.