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Exclusive: Inside Darpa's Secret Afghan Spy Machine
The Pentagon’s top researchers have rushed a classified and controversial intelligence program into Afghanistan. Known as “Nexus 7,” and previously undisclosed as a war-zone surveillance effort, it ties together everything from spy radars to fruit prices in order to glean clues about Afghan instability. The program has been pushed hard by the leadership of the…
A second Nexus 7 godfather is Maj. Gen. Michael Flynn. Until recently, Flynn was the head of U.S. intelligence in Afghanistan.
But he didn't always think too highly of the apparatus he ran. In report publicly released in December 2009 , Flynn excoriated his fellow intelligence professionals for being "only marginally relevant to the overall strategy."
They were so focused on old-school metrics like body counts, he complained, they hadn't bothered to learn the first thing about Afghanistan's people. Rudimentary questions about Afghanistan's social and cultural fabric had gone largely unasked and unanswered.
But Flynn also offered the intelligence community a way out. The U.S. military had in its databases a "vast and underappreciated body of information," he wrote. Tapped right, that information could form "a map for leveraging popular support and marginalizing the insurgency."
https://www.wired.com/2011/07/darpas-secret-spy-machine/