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The Pentagon's shadow army: 60K-strong secret force with $900B budget is operating across the globe specializing in cutting-edge 'signature reduction' espionage methods, new report claims
The Pentagon has amassed a secret, 60,000-strong undercover army to carry out domestic and foreign assignments, a new investigation has revealed
The force is reportedly more than 10 times the size of the CIA's clandestine operation and includes military and civilian agents 'in real life and online'
The agents are 'trained to create secret identities for themselves, make disguises, and can assume fake identities online to pursue high value targets'
The digital sleuths can even manipulate biometric databases of foreign Governments so agents can pass fingerprint checks under false identities
Newsweek says the force is part of a new front in covert warfare using a little-known espionage known as 'signature reduction'
Signature reduction gives the US deniability on sensitive missions and allows soldiers, civilians and contractors to work under false identities
While signature reduction operatives are rarely outed, intelligence agents point to the 2013 arrest of American 'diplomat' Ryan Fogle in Moscow as one such case
By Bevan Hurley For Dailymail.Com
Published: 23:31 EST, 17 May 2021 | Updated: 09:20 EST, 18 May 2021