By Kimberly Dozier
Langley is ready to woo the new president like a foreign leader. The
key? Flattering his ego. ‘He is extremely insecure like an adolescent
boy,’ one analyst told The Daily Beast.
After a brutal start, the CIA is set to mend fences and win over “Customer Number One,” President Donald Trump, putting aside his awkward address to the agency on Saturday and doing what they do best: recruit him to their way of thinking.
“Congratulations, he’s already recruited. Where is first place he showed up? His main intelligence agency,” said one former senior CIA official whose job used to be cultivating foreign sources.
The CIA’s main job overseas is to get into the mind of foreign leaders, and to recruit foreign intelligence assets to help them do that, wooing and winning them into becoming useful to the CIA and the United States. Intelligence officials current and former say that’s what they’re now doing with Donald Trump, though slightly in reverse: studying what’s important to him to learn how best to get through to him, and how the intelligence agency can be a useful tool to his presidency.
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are also key policies various factions of the CIA would like to see
addressed. Some want to shore up the agency’s role as key operator of
drone strikes against overseas terrorist targets—which the Obama
administration had hoped to transfer in large part to the military.
Others would like to roll back some of the recent reorganization of the
CIA into 10 geographic or mission specific new centers. (It’s something
newly confirmed CIA director, conservative Kansas Congressman Mike
Pompeo has already said might need “tweaking.”)
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Source: The Daily Beast
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