The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is opening its opening on terrorism and is ready to unleash its capacities against international smuggling posters of the Nation, according to an exclusive interview with the deputy director of the CIA, Michael Ellis.
Already in this week, the agency prepares to launch the center of the Mission of the ontercotics of America, which will merge the staff of the agency that focuses on the prospersion and personnel that focus on the western hemisphere, for a closer and faster coordination.
He said the goal is to create a “finely tight machine” to destroy the posters, whose members the Trump administration has designated as foreign terrorists. The agency aims to use its experience in the hunt for radical Islamist jihadists perfected in the last 25 years, and apply it to destroy the networks of the posters abroad.
It will mark a great change for the agency that has mainly focused its fight against the fight against terrorism in the Middle East and southern Asia.
Ellis said the approach will not disappear, but will now include Latin America, which has been neglected on the last two decades. For example, he pointed out that at the headquarters of the CIA, one has to walk through a kitchen to reach the conference room of the ontercotic center.
That will change, he said that some linguist may need to change from Arabic to Spanish.
Symbolic of this change is the first official trip of Ellis as deputy director of the CIA to the border near San Diego, California. Duration that visit, with the Federal Research Desktop staff, the Department of National Security and Customs and the Border Patrol, with whom the CIA will work closely in this effort.
“It’s a government’s effort,” he said.
However, Ellis said there is a public impression that the fight against posters is mainly a national effort to apply the law, but pointed out that it is a lot of work through the border and abroad, to dry chemicals of chemical products.
“The drug trafficker is an intelligent and sophisticated adversary,” Ellis said. “[We’re] Looking higher to identify those networks beyond our borders and dismantle them. “
Ellis indicated that the agency would do this work with the association of other countries. “The Mexican government does not want posters to operate in their country,” he said.
Ellis said that the agency’s activities may not be visible, given the nature of the agency’s work, but the results would finally be seen in fentanyl deaths and other illicit drugs.
As for the results visible so far, he pointed out that the number of people who illegally cross the border have already dramatically dropped.
“It’s night and day before January 20,” Ellis said.
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