[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] - The Pentagon has amassed a secret, 60,000-strong undercover army to carry out domestic and foreign assignments, a new investigation has revealed
- The force is reportedly more than 10 times the size of the CIA's clandestine operation and includes military and civilian agents 'in real life and online'
- The agents are 'trained to create secret identities for themselves, make disguises, and can assume fake identities online to pursue high value targets'
- The digital sleuths can even manipulate biometric databases of foreign Governments so agents can pass fingerprint checks under false identities
- Newsweek says the force is part of a new front in covert warfare using a little-known espionage known as 'signature reduction'
- Signature reduction gives the US deniability on sensitive missions and allows soldiers, civilians and contractors to work under false identities
- While signature reduction operatives are rarely outed, intelligence agents point to the 2013 arrest of American 'diplomat' Ryan Fogle in Moscow as one such case
A cover element 60,000 strong? Sixty strong would present quite a challenge. Lloyd Austin at the helm? Little wonder victory has eluded us in Afghanistan for 20 years. The Signature Reduction people consumed all the talent and resources.
$900B budget was it? And the Klingon's just sat back and let the money go to DoD ?
Is there an Extraterrestrial section? A challenge coin ?