US media: The US Department of Defense plans to create a new deep-cover espionage program

China News Service, October 22. According to US media reports on the 21st local time, multiple people familiar with the matter said that the US Department of Defense plans to create a "more powerful" deep-cover espionage program to carry out economic warfare against US competitors.

According to reports, the new generation spy program plans to arrange for U.S. agents to disguise themselves as businessmen or other private sector personnel without any public U.S. government identities. The personnel involved will become "a covert force in the Pentagon's large-scale economic warfare operations."

According to reports, the program was headed by Tom Lacousan, a former CIA official. Lacousan has worked for the CIA for 39 years. He was a senior CIA official responsible for directing espionage operations and is now a senior adviser to US Deputy Secretary of Defense Steve Feinberg.

The report also stated that experts from various services of the U.S. Department of Defense, the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security Affairs, and a number of retired CIA officials have been recruited to participate in the plan. Currently, the plan is in the preparatory stage and has not yet been put into actual operation.

The report mentioned that the current affiliation of the program within the Pentagon is unclear. The relevant team may operate as a new, independent deep sleeper unit, or it may be an enhancement and expansion of the existing secret human intelligence collection capabilities of the U.S. Department of Defense.

Regarding related reports, the U.S. Department of Defense denied that it was advancing such plans.