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centre in Virginia, known as "The Farm", where secret agents are groomed
– a number of new posts will be created for the DIA pupils, totalling about
20% of the Farm’s turnover.
The ever closer collaboration between these two agencies is born out
by the fact that the DIA has adopted a few of the CIA’s internal structures,
amongst others, a unit dubbed "Persia House", which co-ordinates secret
operations inside Iran.
The new DIA agents will also take a specialisation course directed by
the Commander of Special Operations. Apart from training recruits to
eliminate the enemy, he also teaches "non-conventional warfare" to be
conducted by exterior forces who are specially trained for this purpose;
"counter-insurrection", to help allied governments to repress rebellion;
and "psychological operations" intended to influence public opinion so
that the population comes to support US military action.
Once their training is complete, these new DIA agents, about 1,600 at
first, will be assigned by the Pentagon to missions all over the world. The
State Department will provide them with false identities, introducing some
of them into embassies - but since the embassies are already full of CIA
agents, the DIA agents will be given other false identities, for example, as
university staff or business executives.
Thanks to their military experience, the DIA agents are reputed to be
more appropriate for the recruitment of informers capable of providing
data of a military nature, for example, information concerning the new
Chinese fighter plane. And the development of their organigram will
enable the DIA to expand the range of targets for drone strikes and actions
by special forces.
This is the new way of making war, preparing and accompanying
open attacks by secret action intended to weaken the target country from
inside, as was done in Libya, or undermine it internally, as is being
attempted in Syria. This is the direction taken by the restructured DIA,
launched by President Obama.
We don’t know if the candidate for Prime Minister Pier Luigi
Bersani [1], who holds Obama in great esteem, has already congratulated
him for this action. However, he has recently visited Libya in order to