CIA Archives: Counter-Intelligence Special Operations - Raids and Searches (1969)

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The Special Activities Division (SAD) is a division of the United States Central Intelligence Agency's (CIA) National Clandestine Service (NCS) responsible for covert operations, black operations and other "special activities". These include covert political action and paramilitary special operations. Within SAD there are two separate groups, one for paramilitary operations and another for political action. The Political Action Group within SAD is responsible for covert activities related to political influence, psychological and economic warfare. The rapid development of technology has added cyberwarfare to their mission. A large covert operation usually has components that involve many, or all, of these categories, as well as paramilitary operations. The division is supervised by the U.S. Secretary of State.

Special Operations Group (SOG) is the element within SAD responsible for paramilitary operations. These operations include collection of intelligence in hostile countries and regions, and all high threat military or intelligence operations with which the U.S. government does not wish to be overtly associated. As such, members of the unit (called Paramilitary Operations Officers) normally do not carry any objects or clothing (e.g., military uniforms) that would associate them with the United States government. If they are compromised during a mission, the government of the United States may deny all knowledge.

SOG Paramilitary Operations Officers (PMOO) are a majority of the recipients of the Distinguished Intelligence Cross and the Intelligence Star, the two highest medals for valor in the CIA. They also make up the majority of those honored on the Memorial Wall at CIA headquarters.

SAD provides the President of the United States with an option when overt military and/or diplomatic actions are not viable or politically feasible. SAD can be directly tasked by the President of the United States or the National Security Council at the President's direction. This is unlike any other U.S. special mission force. However, SAD/SOG has far fewer members than most of the other special missions units, such as Special Operations Detachment-Delta (Delta Force) or SEAL Team Six. As the action arm of the NCS, SAD/SOG conducts military direct action missions such as raids, ambushes, sabotage, targeted killings and unconventional warfare (e.g., training and leading guerrilla and military units of other countries in combat). SAD/SOG also conducts special reconnaissance, that can be either military or intelligence driven, but is carried out by Paramilitary Operations Officers when in "non-permissive environments". Paramilitary Operations Officers are also fully trained case officers and as such conduct clandestine human intelligence (HUMINT) operations throughout the world. SAD/SOG officers are selected exclusively from the most elite U.S. military units.

The political action group within SAD conducts the deniable psychological operations, also known as black propaganda, as well as "Covert Influence" to effect political change as an important part of any Administration's foreign policy. Covert intervention in a foreign election is the most significant form of political action. This could involve financial support for favored candidates, media guidance, technical support for public relations, get-out-the-vote or political organizing efforts, legal expertise, advertising campaigns, assistance with poll-watching, and other means of direct action. Policy decisions could be influenced by assets, such as subversion of officials of the country, to make decisions in their official capacity that are in the furtherance of U.S. policy aims. In addition, mechanisms for forming and developing opinions involve the covert use of propaganda.

Propaganda includes leaflets, newspapers, magazines, books, radio, and television, all of which are geared to convey the U.S. message appropriate to the region. These techniques have expanded to cover the Internet as well. They may employ officers to work as journalists, recruit agents of influence, operate media platforms, plant certain stories or information in places it is hoped it will come to public attention, or seek to deny and/or discredit information that is public knowledge. In all such propaganda efforts, "black" operations denote those in which the audience is to be kept ignorant of the source; "white" efforts are those in which the originator openly acknowledges himself; and "gray" operations are those in which the source is partly but not fully acknowledged.

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[xusmico187]

No, a US citizen has more to fear from illegial boarder crossers, TSA, ATF and any other federal LEA than they will ever have to fear from US military.RE: the recent ATF project Fast & ferious. They forced law abiding gun dealers to sell guns to known black markert gun runners to take into mexico where the ATF lost track of them. DO NOT trust any they are NOT your friends. Do not ever give up your guns READ and KNOW the US const. & BoR.

[thetruthisoutthere32]

@xusmico187 - I have a question for you. Do the "paramilitary operations...includ[ing] collection of intelligence in hostile countries and regions, and all high threat military or intelligence operations with which the U.S. government does not wish to be overtly associated" now include the United States of America? Is the U.S. military now engaged in killing loyal Americans like myself on American soil?

[xusmico187]

Many of these films were used in my initinal CI training at USAICS. Back then they were classified. Basic tradecraft never changes. Lots of new toys that help out but the BASIC tradecraft is the same.

[SupernaturalGifts777]

I have a feeling with the New MW3 coming out views of this video will spike especially if they feature SAD in it

[birdclip188]

what would counter intelligence fall under?

[Chapulinazuladomx]

stop terrorism against Mexico!

use diplomacy and intelligence! not violence and terrorism!

we are one planet , one people!

[larzkins]

It's always those honeys with the dresses

[emotionalinvalid]

wow, i was on the edge of my seat the whole video!!! this film had to have at least been nominated for academy award. class aaa, right up there with "the marathon man", "the odessa file", boys from brazil, echelon, the manchurian candidate, the spy who came in from the cold, et al. great film dudes and dudettes!!! its a keeper!!!

[xSilverPhinxx]

This sort of thing look to be incredibly stressful...

[mblasko]

so cheessy