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ISP Director Slick on CIA Cyber Capabilities

In recent articles in the Washington Post and Federal Computer Week, Strauss Center Intelligence Studies Project Director Steve Slick comments on the proposed expansion of the CIA’s cyber-espionage capabilities. Slick welcomes CIA Director Brennan’s plan, saying the CIA would “do well to focus more on cyberspace.” Brennan’s plan reportedly calls for increased utilization of cyber capabilities in almost all areas of the CIA’s operations, and is part of a broader restructuring effort by Brennan designed to bring together the Agency’s operations and analysis directorates. Slick calls the expansion of the Agency’s cyber capabilities “entirely appropriate” and “even overdue” given the impact of technological changes on intelligence gathering.

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