The Return of The Commission

Hi There Ho There,

Here at the Forum Intelligence and Foreign Affairs are important topics. So it was strange to see the return of the 9/11 Commission. The Commission was first created to review any intelligence faillures in regard to 9/11 and to formulate solutions. Their final report brought about the creation of the National Intelligence Directorate and the reorganization of the entire US Intelligence Community. Now the commission has returned to push for the changes they discussed. The reason I bring them up is that recently I've been reading up on some of the more obscure areas of the IC

First Earth Battalion

Ever wonder what would happen if the Jedi were real? well now you can find out. In Jon Ronson's The Men Who Stare at Goats he talks about a mysterious Army command that tried to develop psychic abiliities and other stuff seen in X-Men. Additionally, one member Jim Channon proposed the creation of the first Earth Battalion, a warrior prist caste culled from the human race that would in times of conflict would sit between the two sides and let cameras take pictures of them as both sides shoot them down to get at each other.

The 61

In the Free Agent, Brian Crozier describes how he created the 61, a private intelligence group that he used to push anti-communism amongst the western countries and to perform other acts. One site connects them to something called Circle de Pinay or Pinay Circle, a group of conservatives from the government, military, and intelligence services. Supposedly it actively works to ensure a conservative agenda (SEE there is a Conservative conspiracy Virgina)

That's all for now so until later
TTFN and GTFON