Created in March 2006..... "Directorate". ...rather imperious ring to it, huh?
Pentagon confirms Iran Directorate(...)
Military and non-military intelligence sources have also raised worries over what some describe to as “the Iran group” and others as “the Iran working group” and still others as a “cabal” operating out of the Pentagon.
A recent article by Laura Rozen for the Los Angeles Times revealed the Pentagon has created yet another Office of Special Plans-type body called the Directorate for Iran, or the Iranian Directorate.
“The Pentagon's directorate began with six full-time staff members," Rozen reported. "But they can draw on expertise throughout the government, providing access to potentially hundreds of specialists."
The notorious Office of Special Plans – which focused on Iraq -- is now believed by most experts to have provided a secondary conduit of cherry-picked intelligence on Iraq to Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and the White House. (More here)
http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Pentagon_confirms_Iranian_directorate_as_intelligence_0615.htmlaka "Iran Steering Group"?
Wednesday, September 27, 2006
Pentagon’s Iran Directorate: ‘US broadcasts into Iran aren’t tough enough’ (...)
The Pentagon’s Iran Directorate, created in March 2006, “has drafted a report charging that US international broadcasts into Iran aren't tough enough on the Islamic regime,” further indication that some in the Bush administration are pushing for a more confrontational policy toward Iran. According to McClatchy Newspapers, which obtained a copy of the report this week, “the report appears to be a gambit by some officials in Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld's office and elsewhere to gain sway over television and radio broadcasts into Iran, one of the few direct tools the United States has to reach the Iranian people.”
The report was written by Ladan Archin, a regime change proponent who formerly studied with Paul Wolfowitz when he was dean of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. Archin now serves as the Country Director in the Near East and South Asia Department of the Department of Defense responsible for Iran.
The report was prepared for an inter-agency committee on policy toward Iran called the Iran Steering Group, which is co-chaired by the National Security Council and the State Department. (bold emphasis mine)
more:
http://irannuclearwatch.blogspot.com/2006/09/pentagons-iran-directorate-us.htmlabout:
Iran Nuclear Watch"Iran Nuclear Watch (INW) is a project of the Center for Arms Control and Nonproliferation. INW provides news, analysis and resources relating to Iran's nuclear weapons program and US-Iranian relations."*Thank you RD.* You got me curious and I saw what you meant in terms of google. Now we might have some new working search terms.