CIA moonlights in corporate world

[sabra]

Source: Politico

In the midst of two wars and the fight against Al Qaeda, the CIA is offering operatives a chance to peddle their expertise to private companies on the side — a policy that gives financial firms and hedge funds access to the nation’s top-level intelligence talent, POLITICO has learned.

In one case, these active-duty officers moonlighted at a hedge-fund consulting firm that wanted to tap their expertise in “deception detection,” the highly specialized art of telling when executives may be lying based on clues in a conversation.

The never-before-revealed policy comes to light as the CIA and other intelligence agencies are once again under fire for failing to “connect the dots,” this time in the Christmas Day bombing plot on Northwest Flight 253.

But sources familiar with the CIA’s moonlighting policy defend it as a vital tool to prevent brain-drain at Langley, which has seen an exodus of highly trained, badly needed intelligence officers to the private sector, where they can easily double or even triple their government salaries. The policy gives agents a chance to earn more while still staying on the government payroll.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0110/32290.html#ixzz0eGpiZAqJ

[go west young man]

1. Article should read as: CIA infiltrates corporations in order to more easily

control U.S. people, agenda and policy.

[Robb]

2. Wait, I thought the corporations controlled the CIA??

[MilesColtrane]

3. Corporations have their own Congressmen, now their own intelligence officers.

When will they bypass Xe/Blackwater, and simply start raising their own armies?

I can see a platoon of WalMart greeters in blue vests running an obstacle course, while their drill sergeant, a happy, smiley face with a bullhorn, reams then out.

[formercia]

4. That's called the PM course.

;)

[EFerrari]

5. I don't think it really registered for people that Xe/CIA work cheek by jowl.

It's interesting.

[formercia]

7. The Military and CIA pay to train ther Intel Officers who quit and go to work for Blackwater/Xe.

I spent over a year in that PM business and have seen first-hand how it works.

[EFerrari]

8. Interesting. And Eric Prince was outed as an asset.

Maybe shortcuts are in vogue at the moment.

[formercia]

9. One of the Officers I worked with started his own ala Blackwater security company

sold it for 50 Million. Last time I saw him, he was back in uniform (SEAL Officer),acting as spokesperson for the 'Coalition of the Willing.'

[truthisfreedom]

6. Fascinating article. Read the whole thing.

It's four pages.

[MinM]

10. K&R.

[yurbud]

11. they should be infiltrating corporate America to keep an eye on them.