Oh, Shit: CIA set to move unit to Denver (Denver Post,, 5/6/05)

[hlthe2b]

Washington - The CIA has plans to relocate the headquarters of its domestic division, which is responsible for operations and recruitment in the United States, from the CIA's Langley, Va., headquarters to Denver, a move designed to promote innovation, according to U.S. intelligence and law enforcement officials.
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A CIA spokesman declined to comment. Other current and former intelligence officials said the Denver relocation reflects the desire of CIA Director Porter Goss to develop new ways to operate undercover, including setting up more front corporations and working more closely with established international companies.
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Although collecting information on U.S. citizens under suspicion
for terrorist links is primarily an FBI function, the CIA also may collect information on citizens under limited circumstances, according to a 1981 executive order. The exact guidelines for those operations are spelled out in a classified document signed by the CIA director and approved by the U.S. attorney general.

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http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_2714490

[blogbear]

1. Don't they just scheme?

[Celebration]

2. Denver airport?

Does this have something to do with the Denver airport supposedly having all those underground tunnels?

[hlthe2b]

3. Ya got me... no end to conspiracy theories on this one,

I'm afraid to admit....:shrug:

[Bridget Burke]

6. That's the one with the murals...

I'm turning in my tinfoil hat for a mylar burkha...

[hlthe2b]

4. "CO has become a major intelligence hub since 911 terrorist attacks..."

more from the Denver Post article above:

Aurora is home to the little- known Aerospace Data Facility. Located at Buckley Air Force Base, it has become the major U.S.-based technical downlink for intelligence satellites operated by the military, the National Security Agency and the National Reconnaissance Office, according to military and government documents obtained by William Arkin, author of "Code Names," a book about secret military plans and programs.

About 70 miles south of Denver, the U.S. Northern Command, based at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs, is tasked with homeland defense and has been increasing its domestic intelligence work.

http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_2714490

[Inland]

5. Isolate CIA from society, Congress to ensure an amoral, rogue institution

Cloister the Agency so that nobody knows what's going on and the Agency doesn't get infected with the weak, sissy American values of "democracy" and "justice" and the whole "murder is bad" thing.

I'm surprised they didn't offshore the entire agency to Gitmo or Tajikistan.

[Jara sang]

7. They actually use foreign Intelligence services

to collect information on U.S. citizens. It is technically illegal for the CIA to spy on U.S. citizens, but it isn't illegal for say the British to spy on us then give the information to the CIA.

[Jara sang]

8. Spies among us...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3606820

[cap]

9. it will also be linked in with the christian fundamentalists out there

just watch and see.

[ck4829]

10. The 'christian' Right and CIA are already 2 heads of the same Beast, IMO

I once wrote a document on it.

Anti-Communist
Helped the Afghan ‘freedom’ Fighters (later became the Taliban and Al Qaeda)
Both have ties to Efrain Rios Montt and Augusto Pinochet
Both are tied to Death Squads
Rev. Moon (KCIA (basically the CIA in S. Korea) agent friends and friends with Oliver North and Jerry Falwell)
Oliver North (operation phoenix and Christian Right member)
Both have ties to Charles Taylor