Sunday, September 20, 2009

CIA's presence in Afghanistan to rival massive stations in Iraq & Vietnam ...

Afghan mission
LATimes/ Here
"...The influx parallels the U.S. military expansion and comes as the nation's spy services are under pressure from Army Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal to improve intelligence on the Taliban and find ways to reverse a series of unsettling trends. ........ 
The spies are being used in various assignments -- teaming up with special forces units pursuing high-value targets, tracking public sentiment in provinces that have been shifting toward the Taliban and collecting intelligence on corruption in the Afghan government. .."

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