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[Company Intelligence] 2010: CIA ramps way up

SpyTalk
Each winter Brings Hope that next year's crop of talented rookies,
matched with maturing veterans, will turn around a baseball franchise.
So it might be said of the CIA's campaign against Islamic extremists
across a wide swath of the Middle East, Africa and South Asia.
In 2010, late into its second decade fighting Islamic extremists, the
CIA has far more personnel on the battlefield than at any time since
the Vietnam War, when 300 pilots alone were supplying a CIA-led force
of 40,000 tribesman in Laos. "Many times more" CIA personnel have been
deployed to Afghanistan than the 200 or so who were on the ground in
Laos by the early 1970s, said one close CIA observer, voicing the
estimate of others. The agency has raised its own, 3,000-strong Afghan
paramilitary force to conduct raids in Pakistan in search of Taliban
and al-Qaeda leaders.
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