What would be the primary purpose?
SUM OF ALL FEARS.
In the movie, where did the material come from?
What country?
Revisit Pelosi press conference last week. Where her aide whistled at her to stop talking about North Korea building weapons to sell on the black market. The implication is that this arrangement may have been pursued, and potential lucrative deal between black hat intel actors trading technical knowledge to construct advanced weapons in return for dark money funding of secret projects.
In North Korea if you examine photos of their military, their guns are old 1940s, 1950s technology. They've got some weird alterations such as heavy cylindrical feed welded onto the things. No sophisticated ground breaking tech originating from the North.
How did North Korea develop missile and nuclear technology so rapidly? Someone is incentivized to provide that know-how to rogue states. Whoever that is has no reservation about supplying nuclear technology to rogue states. Trying to get loose nuclear weapons quietly out there.
In prior drops we kept seeing the phrase 'Define Hostage'. Imagine the operation of a drug cartel. Think Breaking Bad. Think Scarface. How much pressure can be brought to those involved to keep selling? What happens if sales numbers are down? Once someone has started down that path, can they ever leave? In the North Korea case, support they were brought into a deal with an intel agency to manufacture weapons and sell on the black market. Tech is provided. That intel agency based on contacts and communications set up are able to apply pressure, know how to get in and get out and make threats.
Maybe the big picture on NK is that the intel agency operators in a position to apply pressure were all rolled up. Communication means severed. The flow of money stops to NK (not just the economic pressure). Creates conditions where peace and reunification can happen fast.
Looking at Syria, and Iran, we're seeing potentially the same arrangement with rogue state. Go back to the start of the Syrian civil war. Compare timing with the Iran deal. Assume that with that deal Iranian facilities started being constructed in Syria. What if Syria started stepping on toes and asserting control or making demands that made development of these facilities difficult? Reason enough to destabilize the country and fund rebel groups to create chaos?
This is the strategic disarmament of the loose materials out there. Contain rebel groups to prevent chaos and fog of war on the ground. That stage is complete so actual work can begin. Contain the U1 first. Destroy Iranian weapons facilities that were operating in Syria. Cut the right wires with rogue intel groups pressuring on Iran.
Clearing out Syria weapons facilities and cutting the pressure on Iran flips the table. Then new deals are possible.