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DATE OF UPLOAD:  November 26, 1989
ORIGIN OF UPLOAD:  Unknown
CONTRIBUTED BY:  Unknown
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CIA INTELLIGENCE NETWORKS

    This article is reprinted from Full Disclosure. Copyright (c) 1986
Capitol Information Association.  All rights reserved. Permission is hereby
granted to reprint this article providing this message is included in its
entirety.  Full Disclosure, Box 8275-CI3, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48107. $15/yr.

    The Central Intelligence Agency like many revoluntionary organizations
(including the Russian KGB) organize their agent networks on a "cell" system,
with small groups who meet and carry out specific activities.  The small
groups have very few connections with the rest of the organization.
Typically, the connections between cells will involve only one person in
each cell.  See sample organizational chart prepared by the Central
Intelligence Agency for use in Nicaragua by the "Freedom Commandos"
(reprinted from Psychological Operations in Guerrilla Warfare, the
CIA's Nicaragua manual).

    When this structure is used and a member of a cell is discovered and
forced to talk, he can only inform on members of his own cell.  If he
was the person with a connection to another cell it is possible that
other cell will also be compromised, but only after the connection is
traced.  However, the tracing procedure is very slow, giving the
organization time to regroup.

    Although the tracing of the cell structure is very slow, intelligence
information can be passed to the main organization quickly.

    The main problem with such a cell structure is that the messages
which pass through many cells can get grabled and since the cells have
great autonomy they sometimes work at cross purposes.

      The CIA extends the cell system to include Police Departments, Labor
Unions, Student Associations, Medical Associations, Reporters/Editors etc.
These cells are created by recruiting (or placing) an agent within the
organization.  The placement of the agent would depend on the main purpose of
infiltrating the organization: information or control.  Usually, most of the
people in the "organization" cells don't know that they are working for the
Central Intelligence Agency.

    In addition, the CIA controls numerous "private" corporations.  Usually,
only a few of the top officers are aware of the CIA connection.  The
corporations conduct normal business operations, and are also available to
provide services for the CIA whenever necessary.

    A top-secret memorandum from Brigadier General Edward Lansdale to General
Maxwell Taylor published in The Pentagon Papers, described "unconventional
warfare resources in Southeast Asia" as follows:

		CAT [Civil Air Transport] is a commerical
	    air line engaged in scheduled and nonscheduled
	    air operations throughout the Far East, with
	    headquarters and large maintenance facilities
	    in Taiwan.  CAT, a CIA proprietary
	    [corporation], provides air logistical support
	    under commerical air cover to most CIA and
	    other U.S. Government Agencies' requirements.
	    CAT supports covert and clandestine air
	    operations by providing trained and experienced
	    personnel, procurement of supplies and
	    equipment through covert commerical channels,
	    and the maintenance of a fairly large inventory
	    of transport and other type aircraft under both
	    Chinat [Chinese Nationalist] and U.S. registry.
	
	        CAT has demonstrated its capabilities on
	    numerous occasions to meet all types of
	    contingency or long-term covert air
	    requirements in support of U.S. objectives.
	    During the last ten years, it has had some
	    notable achievements, including support of the
	    Chinese Nationalist withdrawal from the
	    mainland, air drop support to the French at
	    Dien Bien Phu, complete logistical and tactical
	    air support for the Indonesian operation, air
	    lifts of refugees from North Vietnam, more than
	    200 overflights of Mainland China and Tibet,
	    and extensive air support in Laos during the
	    current crisis...
	
    When the goal is to control the organization, the agent would be in a
powerful place, like a Sergeant in a Police Department.  This would enable the
CIA to make use of the Police Department resources, computer data banks,
officers, etc.

    The police officers might perform surveillance on a target for the
Sergeant, not knowing that they were really working for the CIA.  According to
Philip Agee/1, "Thousands of policemen all over the world, for instance, are
shadowing people for the CIA without knowing it.  They think they're working
for their own police departments, when, in fact, their chief may be a CIA
agent who's sending them out on CIA jobs and turning their information over
to his CIA control".

    Agents in Labor Unions can encourage strikes to cause economic
difficulties when the CIA wants to stir up political problems in foreign
countries.  Reporters and editors can be used to plant propaganda in the
press or have information withheld when its in the CIA's best interest
not to have it printed/2.

    When the goal is information collection the target organization would
more likely be other intelligence services, medical or technology
associations.  The agent would be placed so that he would have access to
as much information as possible.  This could be a communications or
mail clerk, etc.

    The CIA also targets banks for infiltration.  They are good organizations
to provide cover for CIA personnel in foreign countries.  The bank can provide
necessary accounts in bogus names.  They can also provide faked account
balances so that background checks would out come out positive.  Banks
are also used for funding mechanisms.  The Bank of Boston was used for
such purposes by the CIA in Brazil/1.

    When the cells aren't aware that they're working for the CIA, or think
they're working for someone else, they can be put to other devious uses.  For
example, if the CIA controlled a cell which thought it worked for the
PLO, they could send it on a terrorist mission with the intent that they
be caught.  This would have a two fold advantage for the CIA, first, the
PLO would be blamed (providing a good opportunity for the U.S. government
to expouse propaganda against the PLO), and secondly, it would allow the
CIA to commit a terrorist attack with extremely little risk of exposure --
to achieve a greater level of interference in the affairs of foreign
governments.

    The CIA can also use cells within an organization which aren't aware of
their connection to the CIA for less devious purposes.  For examples, they can
make public statement which have the effect of alienating their supporters.
When one section makes offensive public statements, major disruptions can
occur within the organization.

/1 Inside the Company: CIA Diary (by Philip Agee)
/2 See Full Disclosure article "I've Got a Secret"

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