[Clips] Pentagon Intelligence Agency Gathers Domestic Intelligence

[R. A. Hettinga]

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  Pentagon Intelligence Agency Gathers Domestic Intelligence
  Sat Dec 10 2005 18:20:11 ET

  Day after day, reports of suspicious activity filed from military bases
 and other defense installations throughout the United States flow into the
 Counterintelligence Field Activity, or CIFA, a three-year-old Pentagon
 agency whose size and budget remain classified, the WASHINGTON POST is
 planning to report on Sunday, newsroom sources tell DRUDGE.

  The Talon reports, as they are called, are based on information from
 civilians and military personnel who stumble across people or information
 they think might be part of a terrorist plot or threat against defense
 facilities at home or abroad.

  It is unclear how many Talon reports are filed each year. But just one of
 the military services involved in the program, the Air Force, generated
 1,200 of them during 14 months, the paper reveals.

  The documents can consist of ``raw information reported by concerned
 citizens and military members regarding suspicious incidents,'' said a 2003
 memo signed by then-Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz. The reports
 ``may or may not be related to an actual threat, and its very nature may be
 fragmented and incomplete,'' the memo said.

  The Talon system is part of the Defense Department's growing effort to
 gather intelligence within the United States, which officials argue is
 imperative as they work to detect and prevent potentially catastrophic
 terrorist assaults. The Talon reports _ how many are generated is
 classified, a Pentagon spokesman said _ are collected and analyzed by CIFA,
 an agency at the forefront of the Pentagon's counterterrorism program.

  The Pentagon's emphasis on domestic intelligence has raised concerns among
 some civil liberties advocates and intelligence officials.

  Developing...


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