CIA terrorist infiltration plan falters in Europe

According to the LA Times:

The CIA set up a network of front companies in Europe and elsewhere after the Sept. 11 attacks as part of a constellation of “black stations” for a new generation of spies, according to current and former agency officials.

It should not surprise you that the U.S. would invest in the CIA and other black ops overseas in the wake of September 11th.  America was angry and in retaliatory mode, but what a wasteful government we’ve had over the years.   Hundreds of millions of dollars were spent on CIA facilities in Europe that would amount to nothing and be shut down after the poorly conceived plan.

But after spending hundreds of millions of dollars setting up as many as 12 of the companies, the agency shut down all but two after concluding they were ill-conceived and poorly positioned for gathering intelligence on the CIA’s principal targets: terrorist groups and unconventional weapons proliferation networks.

Much harder to penetrate the terrorist enclaves than previously thought, eh?  It sounds like some agency officials watched a few too many Hollywood flicks.

Fred Soto is an Attorney and Entrepreneur from the Silicon Valley.
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