Reference no: EM132258721

Imagine that you are on the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) staff. The DNI will soon meet with the Director, CIA, to discuss potential beneficiaries of the recent mid-fiscal year “OCO” supplemental appropriation. The accompanying classified conference report directed that a portion of the additional Central Intelligence Agency Program (CIAP) budget authority was for covert action. In preparation, the Chief Finance Officer (CFO) has requested your recommendation and a very brief rationale, on which one of the following activities would be most appropriately funded as a covert action:

1. Funding for the establishment of a commercial cover enterprise for use by case officers of the Defense Clandestine Service;

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2. Funding for low-level clandestine activities by the US military to protect the security of a classified and politically sensitive joint use facility in a foreign country;

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3. Funding for a DEA/FBI “sting,” informed by IC collection and analysis, to lure an indicted drug lord into a jurisdiction from which where he can be extradited for trial;  

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4. Funding to support classified DOD/SOCOM real-time tactical ISR and MC-130 airlift for a planned non-US “partner’s” hostage rescue raid against terrorists in a denied area;  

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5. Funding for a proposed joint DOD/DOJ/IC/contractor program to “make available” to hostile foreign intelligence collection agents defective advanced technology products, (note that this program was briefed to the HPSCI and SSCI by the NCIX;

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6. Funding proposed anonymous overseas social media and foreign news media campaigns to undercut the position of an international crime boss in his