On Thursday (Dec. 10), former senior executive intelligence officials revealed that the Pentagon plans to end most military support to the CIA by Jan. 5.
According to U.S. news outlet ABC, an anonymous former Defense Department official said Acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller has informed CIA Director Gina Haspel of the Defense Department’s decision by way of an official letter. It is expected that by Jan. 5, the U.S. military may reduce logistical support and personnel for CIA overseas counterterrorism missions.
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) conducts counterterrorism operations with its intelligence spy agency and with its own paramilitary forces. While the CIA conducts covert operations, they do have an independent force, but these missions typically rely on the U.S. military for support and personnel, and on the military for transportation and logistical support. So the Pentagon has the final say on whether to send military forces to support specific CIA operations.
It is not known whether this potential move involves the Trump administration’s election dispute with the Biden camp.
According to former Army Lt. Gen. Flynn, the U.S. military intercepted the servers of the U.S. election system from Frankfurt, Germany after the election, in which CIA personnel were involved in the illegal placement of servers overseas and engaged in a violent exchange of fire with U.S. military forces, during which five U.S. troops and one CIA officer were killed and the illegally placed servers were intercepted by U.S. forces.
As of now, neither the CIA nor the Defense Department has commented on the Pentagon’s decision.
The move is intended to allow the Defense Department to evaluate in detail whether CIA personnel should be diverted from counterterrorism missions to missions related to military competition with the Communist Party of China and Russia, said several current and former military officials cited by the online Defense News Network.
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