{"id":113699,"date":"2021-05-17T19:01:32","date_gmt":"2021-05-17T23:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=113699"},"modified":"2021-05-17T19:14:57","modified_gmt":"2021-05-17T23:14:57","slug":"exclusive-inside-the-militarys-secret-undercover-army","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=113699","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive: Inside the Military’s Secret Undercover Army"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Newsweek is running an article where they claim to provide a rare, exclusive glimpse into the US Military’s Secret Undercover Army.\u00a0 Newsweek claims this report is a result of a two-year investigation.<\/p>\n

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Exclusive: Inside the Military’s Secret Undercover Army<\/strong><\/a><\/h2>\n

The largest undercover force the world has ever known is the one created by the\u00a0Pentagon\u00a0over the past decade. Some 60,000 people now belong to this secret army, many working under masked identities and in low profile, all part of a broad program called “signature reduction.” The force, more than ten times the size of the clandestine elements of the\u00a0CIA, carries out domestic and foreign assignments, both in military uniforms and under civilian cover, in real life and online, sometimes hiding in private businesses and consultancies, some of them household name companies.<\/p>\n

The unprecedented shift has placed an ever greater number of soldiers, civilians, and contractors working under false identities, partly as a natural result in the growth of secret special forces but also as an intentional response to the challenges of traveling and operating in an increasingly transparent world. The explosion of Pentagon cyber warfare, moreover, has led to thousands of spies who carry out their day-to-day work in various made-up personas, the very type of nefarious operations the United States decries when Russian and Chinese spies do the same.<\/p>\n

Newsweek’s<\/em>\u00a0exclusive report on this secret world is the result of a two-year investigation involving the examination of over 600 resumes and 1,000 job postings, dozens of Freedom of Information Act requests, and scores of interviews with participants and defense decision-makers. What emerges is a window into not just a little-known sector of the American military, but also a completely unregulated practice. No one knows the program’s total size, and the explosion of signature reduction has never been examined for its impact on military policies and culture.\u00a0Congress\u00a0has never held a hearing on the subject. And yet the military developing this gigantic clandestine force challenges U.S. laws, the Geneva Conventions, the code of military conduct and basic accountability.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There’s a lot of neat clandestine stuff with a big emphasis on ‘signature reduction’ – which also includes fake hands a fake faces.<\/p>\n

This looks similar to me before I’ve had my morning coffee and bear claw…<\/p>\n

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I find this entire concept very intriguing, but I’m guessing we will now have a whole new class of POSers.\u00a0 Click on the story title above to read the entire story from Newsweek.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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