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War in the Ether 195was Lt. Col. Bill Xenakis, who had once been named “ArmyFather of the Year.”Morehouse and others said Xenakis insulated the unitfrom all the turmoil that surrounded its existence. Thisallowed unit members to concentrate on their work. It wasduring his tenure that the Psi Spies took on one of their mostdifficult tasks: helping the CIA to identify a “mole,” a counterintelligenceagent inside the agency. “We could not havesuccessfully accomplished this mission without absolutemilitary teamwork,” recalled Morehouse. “We were a militaryteam, like a regular Army unit. There were no primadonnas.” Once the unit was taken from INSCOM and placedunder the DIA, things went awry, according to veteran PsiSpies.The DIA’s primary responsibility was for intelligenceanalysis and reporting, not intelligence collectionor operations. No charter existed allowing DIA to conductintelligence operations; the Psi Spies could not beplaced legitimately on DIA books. Because they were connectedwith the DIA funding of psi research, the unit becamethe illegitimate child of the Scientific and Technical IntelligenceDirectorate under Dr. Jack Verona.Verona, unlike Gen. Odum, reportedly saw the unit as avaluable asset and was very covetous of his new acquisition.Morehouse and others said Verona walked a fine line, maintainingthe story that the Psi Spies unit was strictly for research,while allowing psychic operations to continue.In Washington, a town where information and knowledgeequates with power, Verona carefully cultivated connections