The CIA’s Eastern Outreach

by Zaki Khalid

The CIA, which is considered America’s Central Intelligence Agency, is more of a ‘Covert
Intercontinental Agency’ that keeps itself engaged in surveillance, espionage and secret
operations in various countries around the globe.

It has a record of carrying out clandestine operations without regard to their effects on the
ordinary public and what their adverse consequences would lead to. Their prime areas of
attention are global drug trafficking (from which they earn the major part of their income) and
making sure Pentagon’s puppets perform well as their masters in Washington want them to.

The recent dump of raucous diplomatic cables by Mossad in the guise of ‘Wikileaks’ has put the
American credibility at stake. Diplomats and military personnel around the world are raising
eyebrows at the White House, Pentagon and especially the CIA.

Stubborn and ruthless that the CIA is, it has pledged to counter any considerable retaliation
that might prop up from countries wherein they operate and which can pose risks to their
vested interests in the region. On December 8, 2010 CIA Director Leon Panetta delivered a talk
before an academic audience at the University of Maryland’s Center for Advanced Studies of
Language. The focus of the talk was geopolitical regulation overseas and for that, Panetta put
stress on American students to make themselves proficient in languages which not surprisingly
hail from countries that are at a crossroads with hegemonic US policies in the Eastern
Hemisphere: Arabic, Pashto, Urdu, Persian, Russian, Korean, and Chinese.
If one looks a few months back, Xe LLC (formerly Blackwater) had posted recruitment vacancies
for Americans who were fluent in speaking the languages mentioned above. Now, it has
become a need of the hour. The $50 million that Joseph Biden allocated for a specific portion of
the mainstream Pakistani media to tone down on anti US news is going to run out soon.
Another such “generous fund” seems highly unlikely. A few notable media giants in Pakistan are
already broadcasting the Urdu version of the CIA’s ‘Voice Of America’ for spin-doctor purposes.
Since all of that is being shadowed by the Wikileaks headlines every other day, the best
alternative for them to further their resolve in psy-ops and perception management is training
and installing their qualified agents on important strategic points in the Middle East, Pakistan,
Iran, Russia and China who can work covertly in putting leashes on news corporations that tend
to manufacture ‘propaganda material’ (as in ‘propaganda’ for neocon lobbyists).

During his address, Panetta iterated: “For the United States to get to where it needs to be will
require a national commitment to strengthening America’s foreign language proficiency”
Where does the United States want to go where ‘it needs to be’? Panetta is referring to the
Zionist bankers who wish to set up a fresh Arcs of Crisis in the Middle East and South Asian
region.
The near East and South Asia are the theatre-of-operations for the coming times. Before 2014,
the neo-con Zionist lobby of Israel wants to wreak considerable havoc here.

In the Middle East, the focal point of their Arc is at the Gulf of Aden in Yemen (Red Sea region)
which can pose as a major hurdle to the Iran-Pakistan Gas Pipeline deal since the region of
Yemen and around it will be in the clutches of Al-CIAda (Al Qaeda, the CIA puppets). They
initiated this venture when Colonel Mohammed Abdel Aziz Bou Abess of Yemeni intelligence
was assassinated according to a devised plan. Also, this is being carried out to keep a check on
Pakistan’s influence in Somali resistance against the CIA. In the South Asian region, NATO and
American forces are striving to create an Arc of Crisis in North Waziristan that will be referred
to as an imperative citation for public infiltration into Pakistan’s northern tribal areas by US
marines and navy seals.

The CIA’s recruitment policy now says ‘Language skills are now a stricter requirement for
promotion to CIA’s senior ranks’. The more an agent acquaints himself with a subject (country),
the better his prospects in covert ops and maintaining low-profile.

In May 2009, Panetta launched a five-year Language Initiative, which aims to double the
number of Agency analysts and collectors who are proficient in foreign languages and increase
by 50 percent the number of officers with the right language skills serving in jobs that require
foreign languages. This proposition was much appreciated by the Zionist lobby and received
handsome funds from the Congress and the Office of the Director National Intelligence at the
start.
The CIA’s operational statistics have shown there has been an increase in the number of
officers proficient in mission-critical languages by 11 percent. Urdu, Arabic, Pashto, Persian and
Chinese are the languages in high recruit-demands since the past two years. The CIA also offers
hiring bonuses of up to $35000 to agents who are up to the mark in this domain (as mentioned
in USA today dated 19 April, 2009)

To penetrate and destabilize an enemy, one has to truly ‘know’ the enemy and what his
environment and medium of communication are. This is exactly what the CIA is doing. It is
strongly advised that Pakistan’s intelligence agencies keep a more rigid watch on foreign
elements that are operating across Pakistan in various public domains and embassies. It comes
as no surprise that the “bearded tribal people” arrested near Kahuta a few months back by the
ISI turned out to be Americans who were fluent in Pashto and disguised as wayfarers. That was
just one part of the many startling revelations that still await us.