Salon.com > Depertment of Defense http://www.salon.com Sat, 18 May 2013 23:45:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 US military plans to double spy network http://www.salon.com/2012/12/03/us_military_plans_to_double_spy_network/ http://www.salon.com/2012/12/03/us_military_plans_to_double_spy_network/#comments Mon, 03 Dec 2012 13:28:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13113220 The Pentagon's military intelligence unit plans to send hundreds more spies overseas, doubling the size of the U.S. military's spy network, reported The Washington Post's Greg Miller, who recently broke the story of the Obama administration expanding kill lists into a "disposition matrix."

The Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) aims to deploy as many as 1,600 “collectors” in positions around the world with a focus on Islamist militant groups in Africa, weapons transfers by North Korea and Iran, and military modernization in China, according to unnamed officials. Miller noted:

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