CIA spies formation of Sudan officials how to combat Obama's policy
American officials are in disagreement over U.S. policy toward Sudan, but the CIA is a soldier in there.
The East African regime is not only an international pariah for its track record of genocide in the western region of Darfur, has been officially branded by Washington as a terrorist state, in part because of its past host of Islamic radicals, including Osama bin Laden in 1990.
Nevertheless, the CIA continues to train and equip the intelligence service of the Sudan, in the name of fighting terrorism.
The irony is not lost on critics of the regime.
"The U.S. government is the formation of Sudan's intelligence and conducting bilateral operations with them - all in the name of the long war," said a former intelligence officer who served in Sudan.
"We also refer to the Sudan as a state sponsor of terror, have named their activities in the genocide in Darfur, and supported the issuance of arrest warrants for Sudan's president for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity, as defined by the International Criminal Court. "
" Sure, "the former official Intelligence added, "the CIA provides training for National Security and Intelligence Service, known as NISS. "I suspect that had begun in the days ... very soon after the September 11 ".
Others say it began in the 1990s.
In principle, the CIA report was very close NISS-waiting, he said, also protected by other staff at the CIA the embassy in Sudan because of concerns over the serious situation of human rights. The training sessions were probably done outside the country, he guessed.
"There was also the transfer of equipment" to the NISS has said, "computer, etc.".
Another expert former U.S. intelligence official said the CIA NISS partnership began even earlier, the Clinton administration, and called it "incredibly valuable."
"We had a long-term relationship with the Sudanese, even when the embassy closed for a short period in the late '90s," the official said on condition of anonymity because the topic is so sensitive.
"We do not do much training with the Sudanese, except in the fight against terrorism, and they have been a great partner to help us against the target of terrorism."
curriculum of the CIA with the NISS is practically / HUMINT same regular expression / CO intelligence [responsible for training human case], with particular attention to targeting the terrorist, the creation of meetings in a safe place, with surveillance and counter-surveillance, knowing what to look for more, keeping all waste pocket, not allowing them to cancel mobile phones or computers, "the former official said." It is also 'get low' of terrorists or their organizations ... "
In 2005, the Bush administration, CIA Director Porter Goss fed the connection .
"The CIA flew Salah Gosh, head of the NISS, here in the U.S. in one of their jets in 2005," the former intelligence officer who served in Sudan, he said. "It 's up to his ass to the genocide in Darfur."
Just last month, Amnesty International has accused "the Sudanese National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS) is carrying out a brutal campaign of killings, torture, arbitrary detention, intimidation and mental and physical attacks on opponents and critics of the government."
"The NISS uses a variety of methods of torture", he added, "including: beating inmates while held upside down against a wall, electric shocks, whippings, sleep deprivation, kicking and stamping on prisoners and beating them with water pipes. "
CIA spokesman George Little declined to comment on the report by the NISS, saying: "This agency has not, as a rule, a comment about the reports of relationships with foreign intelligence services."
Like the White House, National Security Council spokesman Mike Hammer said, "Not that we talk about our course against terrorism, intelligence programs with a specific country other than to say that we are facing significant issues related to terrorism in East Africa, and it is essential that we are able to work in partnership with countries in the region to identify and destroy potential terrorist networks. "
Some U.S. officials with intimate knowledge of the program of the CIA claim that the agency relationship intelligence with the NISS actually promotes human rights.
"The news channel has been a tool used by our government groped to influence the Sudanese, in terms of human rights and the rule of law," said an official of the genre. "That was a deliberate policy decision, made with inter-agency support, and while everyone has their eyes open to everything that has yet to happen, the dialogue has had its benefits."
Another, a senior official of 'administration, said: "We are not blind to the reality of Sudan. "Everybody understands what's going on there."
"If the Sudanese go outside the box", he said, "is can pull the plug ".
These explanations evoking the darkest days of the Cold War, when successive U.S. administrations used the same rationale for allowing the CIA to have a close relationship with the security services of some of the worst in the world, violators human rights, South Africa in Argentina, Guatemala and Chile, saying they were needed in the fight against Soviet communism shadow-backed securities.
And as at that time, administration officials barely concealed their Obama have significant differences on what to do with Sudan.
