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24 May 2013 CIA Mike Related: 2013-0482.htm CIA Disclosed May 12, 2013 2013-0477.htm Gina Cheri Haspel, ex-Acting CIA Covert Head May 9, 2013 2013-0476.htm Francis "Frank" Archibald, Jr. CIA Covert Head May 9, 2013 CIA John (Stephen John Nicgorski):
http://cryptome.org/0004/cia-john/cia-john.htm CIA headquarters huts for directing drone attacks: http://cryptome.org/eyeball/cia-quonset/cia-quonset.htm
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/24/us/politics/plan-would-orient-cia- C.I.A. to Focus More on Spying, a Difficult Shift By MARK MAZZETTI Published: May 23, 2013 WASHINGTON — For more than seven years, Mike — a lean, chain-smoking officer at the Central Intelligence Agency’s headquarters in Virginia — has managed the agency’s deadly campaign of armed drone strikes. As the head of the C.I.A.’s Counterterrorism Center, Mike wielded tremendous power in hundreds of decisions over who lived and died in far-off lands. But under a new plan outlined by the Obama administration on Thursday, the Counterterrorism Center over time would cease to be the hub of America’s targeted killing operations in Pakistan, Yemen and other places where presidents might choose to wage war in the future. Already, the C.I.A.’s director, John O. Brennan, has passed over Mike, an undercover officer whose full name is being withheld, for a promotion to run the agency’s clandestine service. _____ Mazzetti, Mark (2013-04-09). The Way of the Knife: The CIA, a Secret Army, and a War at the Ends of the Earth. Penguin Group US. Kindle Edition. Mike (undercover officer), 163– 64, 218 [163-64] Rodriguez thought all of this was a distraction from the bin Laden hunt. He replaced Grenier with another officer from inside the CTC, a gaunt, chain-smoking workaholic named Mike.* Mike had spent his early career as an undercover officer in Africa and had converted to Islam. His wardrobe tended toward shades of black and gray, as did his general demeanor. Some called him the “Prince of Darkness,” and he would eventually preside over the CIA’s most expansive killing operation since the Vietnam War. * Because Mike remains an undercover officer, only his first name is used here. When Mike took over the job, in 2006, his immediate mission was to carry out a plan to bolster the CIA’s ranks in Afghanistan and Pakistan, eliminate the squabbling between the stations in Kabul and Islamabad, and reorganize the staff at CIA headquarters. Outside the main cafeteria at Langley, just past the Starbucks, giant structures resembling Quonset huts were built to house the growing staff devoted to the bin Laden hunt. As part of this new plan, dubbed Operation Cannonball, dozens of intelligence analysts were sent to Kabul and Islamabad to work in tandem with the case officers chasing slivers of leads on the whereabouts of al Qaeda leaders. [218] During the transition after Obama’s election, Brennan and the other senior members of Obama’s national-security team had been briefed over two days at CIA headquarters, where top agency officials ran through the list of covert-action programs on the books. The head of the Counterterrorism Center, the undercover officer with the first name Mike, told the group that President Bush had accelerated the pace of drone strikes the previous summer and that the CIA was trying to get more spies into Pakistan. During the presidential campaign, Obama had repeatedly pledged that he would focus attention on Pakistan, Afghanistan, and the hunt for Osama bin Laden— a renewed emphasis on the so-called “good war” that Bush had ignored by starting the “bad war” in Iraq. At the meetings, Brennan told Mike and Stephen Kappes, the deputy CIA director whom Obama had asked to stay in his job at Langley, that the drone killings in Pakistan were likely to continue under Obama’s watch.
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