Today is 08/23/2024, Post #2

And they know where I am

And they know where I'm going

And they know how to harass me and they know they will never ever never be accountable to anyone for it

And they know I know they know I know









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https://www.yahoo.com/news/cia-sent-him-deep-undercover-134004143.html

Yahoo! News

The CIA Sent Him Deep Undercover to Spy on Islamic Radicals. It Cost Him Everything

Zach Dorfman

Sun, August 11, 2024 at 6:40 AM PDT

But the CIA has a sizable, if generally hush-hush, presence within the U.S. itself, with NR offices dotting America’s major cities. Domestic CIA stations have produced important intelligence for the agency. But the CIA has also used these offices as rest stops — temporary or final — for agency operatives who can no longer cut it in the foreign arena.









excerpts

https://www.yahoo.com/news/cia-sent-him-deep-undercover-134004143.html

Yahoo! News

The CIA Sent Him Deep Undercover to Spy on Islamic Radicals. It Cost Him Everything

Zach Dorfman

Sun, August 11, 2024 at 6:40 AM PDT

“I don’t know how they assisted them with this type of support, because it’s more difficult to do that and maintain their status,” continues Mulroy, who is unfamiliar with Lagunas’ story.

The CIA has a self-protective, insular culture — at times, it operates almost like a secular priesthood, with a body of arcane traditions and holy texts — but there is an intense esprit de corps within the agency. NOCs have far fewer opportunities to partake in this communal institutional life.

Fundamentally, the opaque nature of the work of NOCs like Lagunas, and the experiential chasm that isolates them from fellow agency officers, means the psychic trauma they face just may not register to their “big CIA” colleagues.

At agency headquarters, “you’ve got people who are living in northern Virginia and worried about their mortgage payments, getting their kids to gymnastics, the parent-teacher conference, and meanwhile you’ve got this guy who’s trying to go into a terrorist organization,” recalls a former senior official. “And it just doesn’t work.” The CIA bureaucracy simply “wasn’t equipped for his mission



- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 3:43 PM Pacific-timezone USA Friday 08/23/2024