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Echo In Light Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-12-10 01:15 PM
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CIA moonlights in corporate world
The CIA is offering operatives a chance to peddle their expertise to private companies on the side — a policy that gives financial firms and hedge funds access to the nation’s top-level intelligence talent.

In one case, these active-duty officers moonlighted at a hedge-fund consulting firm that wanted to tap their expertise in “deception detection,” the highly specialized art of telling when executives may be lying based on clues in a conversation.

The CIA defends the policy as a vital tool to prevent brain-drain at Langley, which has seen an exodus of highly trained, badly needed intelligence officers to the private sector, where they can easily double or even triple their government salaries. CIA officers who want to participate in it must first submit a detailed explanation of the type of work involved and get permission from higher-ups within the agency.

Close ties between active-duty and retired CIA officers at Business Intelligence Advisors, based in Boston, shows the degree to which CIA-style intelligence gathering techniques have been employed by hedge funds and financial institutions in the global economy.

http://www.mediafreedominternational.org/2010/04/09/cia-moonlights-in-corporate-world/
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DJ13 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-12-10 01:19 PM
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1. What was the definition of Fascism again?
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sui generis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-12-10 01:20 PM
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2. it's not so frightening as long as a CIA resource is constrained
by the law and prosecutable for industrial espionage to the same extent that any other citizen would be. I think most corporations will find that information gathering techniques they currently practice already exceed the ability of most CIA analysts to arrive at the same conclusions given that using quantitative methods in finance and factoring other available metrics, however obtained, are not the same thing as gathering a fact alone.

Business Intelligence is about a bit more than just acquiring information.
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jody Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-12-10 01:33 PM
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3. William Frank Buckley, Jr., Skull and Bones member, and his classmates were CIA members.
The Headquarters Compound of the Central Intelligence Agency located in Langley, Virginia, is named the George H.W. Bush Center for Central Intelligence.

George H. W. Bush, is another S&B member and son of Prescott Bush, another S&B member.

Prescott Bush was one of seven directors of the Union Banking Corporation, an investment bank controlled by the Thyssen family, which was seized in October 1942 under the Trading with the Enemy Act as being owned by "enemy aliens." The Thyssen fortune was a major supporter of the Nazi Party.
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Echo In Light Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-12-10 01:34 PM
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Echo In Light Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-12-10 03:46 PM
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