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Octafish

(55,745 posts)
4. CIA moonlights in corporate world
Sat Feb 6, 2016, 11:27 AM
Feb 2016

Wonder how long "compartmentalized information" holds when the "price is right" is on the table?



CIA moonlights in corporate world

In the midst of two wars and the fight against Al Qaeda, 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, POLITICO has learned.

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 never-before-revealed policy comes to light as the CIA and other intelligence agencies are once again under fire for failing to “connect the dots,” this time in the Christmas Day bombing plot on Northwest Flight 253.

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But the close ties between active-duty and retired CIA officers at one consulting company show the degree to which CIA-style intelligence gathering techniques have been employed by hedge funds and financial institutions in the global economy.

The firm is called Business Intelligence Advisors, and it is based in Boston. BIA was founded and is staffed by a number of retired CIA officers, and it specializes in the arcane field of “deception detection.” BIA’s clients have included Goldman Sachs and the enormous hedge fund SAC Capital Advisors, according to spokesmen for both firms.

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http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0110/32290.html#ixzz0eIFPhHBh



That was 2010. Now they've got the likes of Ted Princeton Whore Cruz to carry their MIC flag.

Thank you for the heads-up, denem. Yours is a most enlightening OP.

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Goldman Sachs? That bank is becoming too evil to exist, never mind too big. eom Betty Karlson Feb 2016 #1
Does anyone know who are Chad C. Sweet connections denem Feb 2016 #2
There's a lot on the Chertoff Group in this Nation article starroute Feb 2016 #5
OK NSA Director, DHS Chief. DHS Intelligence Chief, + Woolsey, CIA Director denem Feb 2016 #6
Woolsey did more than anyone to promote the Iraq War starroute Feb 2016 #8
God, as if he wasn't scary enough on his own. nt. polly7 Feb 2016 #3
CIA moonlights in corporate world Octafish Feb 2016 #4
Thanks for being another member of the real DU reality-based community denem. GWB was a coup. bobthedrummer Feb 2016 #7
No, - thank you! This is starting to look like a nightmare scenario denem Feb 2016 #9
Can you at least dig up a non-infowars link, please? Blue_Tires Feb 2016 #10
OK, lets start with Chad Sweet, campaign manager denem Feb 2016 #12
But the original link is still in your OP... Blue_Tires Feb 2016 #22
Kick, kick, kick. hifiguy Feb 2016 #11
Campaign Manager, Goldman VP for 10 years denem Feb 2016 #13
From an opportunistic teabagger to an opportunistic neocon. dmr Feb 2016 #14
Cruz principal backer: "THE MAN WHO OUT KOCHED THE KOCHES" denem Feb 2016 #15
How about a theocratic neocon? Most Hortensis Feb 2016 #16
PsyOps: If you have pacify people denem Feb 2016 #17
That is a frightening article. dmr Feb 2016 #18
Yes, but why were they boasting about it? denem Feb 2016 #19
don't kid yourself--the same cabal worms its way into EVERY campaign team. librechik Feb 2016 #20
Yes, but with respect, denem Feb 2016 #21
Yep. The United States of America is no exception to whatever you want to call the forces allied in bobthedrummer Feb 2016 #23
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