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2017-12-26 Arabia

Deep Pockets, Deep Cover: The UAE Is Paying Ex-CIA Officers to Build a Spy Empire in the Gulf

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Posted by Besoeker 2017-12-26 08:07|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

Host nation lads who struggle with the academics could always default to careers in aviation. What harm could there be ?

Posted by Besoeker 2017-12-26 08:39|| 2017-12-26 08:39|| Front Page Top

#2 and they watch skits about recruiting Libyan sources.

"Sweet Allah's beard! Anything, but more of these role-playing skits"

Posted by Frank G 2017-12-26 09:09|| 2017-12-26 09:09|| Front Page Top

#3 Offer the recruits a pension.
Maybe we can get rid of some more.

Posted by Skidmark 2017-12-26 09:26|| 2017-12-26 09:26|| Front Page Top

#4 The facilities and courses are part of the United Arab Emirates’ nascent efforts to create a professional intelligence cadre modeled after the West’s.
How utterly bizarre... People in that area have been spying on each other for millennia and any advice on HUMINT from the CIA? *snicker*

Posted by magpie 2017-12-26 12:39|| 2017-12-26 12:39|| Front Page Top

#5 Any intelligence officers who "retire" and go to work for foreign intelligence should have their pensions cut, at the least. We have to assume they've leaked anything they know to their new masters.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2017-12-26 18:31|| 2017-12-26 18:31|| Front Page Top

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