There are lots of guys sitting around in the intelligence bureaucracy saying, 'Wouldn't it be nice if we could get one of those, too?' So the committee has had a hard time keeping an eye on an ever-expanding frontier."Ĭongressional sources said the Defense Department had made an effort to create yet another clandestine intelligence organization last year. But he said he was concerned that after the 1980 election "word went out that now Reagan is president and covert action is okay. Charles Rose (D-N.C.), who was chairman of the House oversight subcommittee last year, declined to comment on the ISA's activities. Its current activities were said not to violate the law. The sources said the ISA had conducted operations worldwide and that it is still active in Central America. Several sources said the CIA had objected to the actions, which were approved and conducted outside normal channels. Subsequently, the matter was referred to the Intelligence Oversight Board, an executive committee charged with examining questions of legality.Īlthough the organization came to the attention of Congress because of its involvement with Bo Gritz in 1981, apparently after the CIA's own unsuccessful operation in Laos, the Gritz mission was said to be "just a small part" of the ISA's activities. But according to a number of well- informed sources, the Intelligence Support Activity has been responsible for a number of illegal covert actions conducted without either a presidential finding or a report to the intelligence committees.Įarly in 1982, the congressional intelligence committees learned of the ISA's actions - which they declined to enumerate - and conducted an investigation. Until now, the existence of this component of the U.S. U.S.WHAT IS THE Intelligence Support Activity, and what has it been up to?.Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Agency.Office of the Director of National Intelligence.National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.National Institute of Standards and Technology.National Aeronautics and Space Administration.Office of the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program.Department of Housing and Urban Development.Department of Homeland Security Testimony.Department of Health and Human Services.Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command.Office of Inspector General of the Depratment of Defense.North American Aerospace Defense Command.National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization.Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.Center for Strategic and International Studies.Business Executives for National Security.Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Explosives.International Fund for Agricultural Development.International Council of Chemical Associations.Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.International Criminal Police Organization.Army TRISA Training Presentation: Information Warfare May 25, 2015 Section II of this report details the Office’s investigation of the Russian social media campaign. persons conspired or coordinated with the IRA. The investigation did not identify evidence that any U.S. grassroots entities and persons and made contact with Trump supporters and Trump Campaign officials in the United States. To organize those rallies, IRA employees posed as U.S. persons and entities, as well as the staging of political rallies inside the United States. The IRA’s operation also included the purchase of political advertisements on social media in the names of U.S. electoral system, to a targeted operation that by early 2016 favored candidate Trump and disparaged candidate Clinton. political system through what it termed “information warfare.” The campaign evolved from a generalized program designed in 20 to undermine the U.S. The IRA later used social media accounts and interest groups to sow discord in the U.S. Petersburg, Russia, and received funding from Russian oligarch Yevgeniy Prigozhin and companies he controlled. The Internet Research Agency (IRA) carried out the earliest Russian interference operations identified by the investigation-a social media campaign designed to provoke and amplify political and social discord in the United States.
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