3 April 2008
C.F.A. or Counterintelligence Field Activity founded by Donald Rumsfeld after 9/11/ to monitor operations of foreign intelligence services and terror groups inside the United States and abroad, is being looked at for disbanding by the Pentagon. In 2005 it was disclosed that among it’s many operations, it had a database of anti-war protests planned around the country. As a tradition the Pentagon is barred from conducting domestic intelligence operations and that data base was shut down last year. Rumsfeld had no love for the C.I.A. and some people in the Pentagon felt that he was trying to form his own intelligence empire. If the agency is shut down, some parts of it will be transfered to the Defense Intelligence Agency.
This is part of Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates plan to reorganize the nation’s intelligence gathering. He wants to improve coordination among spy agencies and rebuild confidence lost during Rumsfeld’s tenure. Hopefully there will be tighter restrictions on counterterrorism and counterespionage operations in the U.S. and not moved to agencies with less scrutiny. Supposedly the changes are not because of past problems in the agency but for “creating efficiencies and streamlining†efforts to hinder operations by foreign intelligence services. It is said that such a reorganization is long overdue and is intended to strengthen counterintelligence operations.
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